Why Blackpilling On Trump Is Stupid
Sixteen months into the second Trump administration, many are weighing the president’s successes on his agenda, especially in light of the upcoming midterm elections in November.
It has become very fashionable in certain circles of the internet and social media for right-wing influencers and voters to cast aspersion on the Trump administration, expressing intense skepticism at best and outright hostility at worst. This fatalistic phenomenon, known as “blackpilling,” has markedly increased in the wake of the ongoing Iran conflict since February.
With Trump swept back into office in the 2024 election upon an incredible backlash of populist support against the rank corruptions and disastrous policies of the Biden regime, the president’s supporters were optimistic about the possibilities for reform. Nevertheless, there have been many occasions for disappointment among loyal Trump supporters.
We want deep-state actors and Antifa criminals to face justice. We have yet to see even a fraction of the aggressive prosecutions, punishments, and deployments of force against ongoing left-wing violence, despite prosecutions repeatedly being weaponized against right-wing activists and loyalists under the previous administration.
As attorney general, Pam Bondi seemed lethargic, even causing the president to criticize her. The retirement of Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, previously the public face of the mass deportations operation, has come as a big blow to Trump loyalists. And, of course, the war with Iran is the subject of reasonable skepticism from Trump supporters who want to prioritize domestic issues and eschew further Middle Eastern wars, especially when the campaign is aggressively advocated by the Israeli government with seeming indifference to American interests.
But despite these disappointments, there are still many concrete and rational reasons why America First patriots should not despair but instead loyally, though not uncritically, support President Trump. Voters should be honest, yet honesty requires not merely listing failures or discouragements but also keeping perspective, documenting wins, and fairly examining all the reasons not to give up.
Since January 2025, the Trump administration has been moving at a record pace to bring reforms. There’s not nearly enough space here to cover them all, so here are just a few highlights.
Immigration
Immigration was likely the biggest issue of Trump’s campaign, and his administration is delivering unprecedented results on both illegal and legal immigration. While many have suggested the Trump administration is backing away from mass deportations, the numbers do not show that, instead showing consistently high levels of arrests, detentions, and deportations.
As a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed last summer, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection have received the largest increase in funding ever, funding that is supporting hiring thousands of new agents and building migrant detention centers across the country. The Trump administration has repeatedly stated that all illegal aliens are subject to detention and removal, and the statistics show that the administration is not merely targeting the “worst of the worst” criminal aliens, but that detentions and deportations of illegal aliens without an additional criminal record are also increasing.
The administration seeks to end welfare benefits for illegal aliens and to remove all incentives for them to remain in the U.S. With this increased regulatory pressure, self-deportations could increase exponentially. The administration has also set a new record for the number of 287(g) legal partnerships with local law enforcement agencies, thus deputizing them to help carry out federal immigration law. While the removal numbers are lower than many voters would like, these are still the largest mass deportations of illegal aliens ever undertaken by a presidential administration.
On the issue of legal immigration, the Trump administration has revoked more than 100,000 visas. While the administration has been unable to oversee a change in the law due to congressional gridlock and impotence, it has seriously reduced the number of H-1B work visas issued to foreigners and worked to revoke Temporary Protected Status for many countries. For the first time in 50 years, in 2025, the U.S. experienced a net negative migration rate. Also, the rate of naturalizations has fallen off, as the Trump administration has increased scrutiny of those seeking citizenship. And Trump is the first president ever to openly challenge the prevailing left-wing interpretation of “birthright citizenship,” fighting for American sovereignty and the value of citizenship.
Prosecutions
When it comes to prosecuting and punishing corrupt deep-state actors and left-wing domestic terrorists, the DOJ and the various federal law enforcement agencies have indeed been indicting, arresting, and prosecuting. Just in the last week or so, we have received promising updates with indictments of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Fauci aide David Morens, former FBI Director James Comey, and domestic terrorists in Minneapolis who mobbed conservative reporter Savanah Hernandez.
Admittedly, the indictments and arrests should increase, and the federal government should do everything possible to target and dismantle networks of left-wing terrorism, especially given yet another assassination attempt on President Trump’s life. However, most people who simply look on and say, “Why isn’t the administration doing anything?” do not accurately understand the scale of obstacles.
Leftists dominate the federal judiciary, many state and local judiciaries, and many federal and local prosecutors. To bring the desired reforms and pursue justice, Trump must purge the corrupt characters from the DOJ, bring indictments, and secure convictions and sentences. The same corrupt, left-wing forces in the justice system that nakedly collaborated to target Trump and his supporters leading up to the 2024 election still have enormous influence and are now working to obstruct his reforms. The left-wing corruption that dominates our justice system has not gone away overnight simply because we changed the people nominally in charge at the top. Even in cases where Trump can get loyal prosecutors and bring charges, judicial obstruction and jury nullification remain serious obstacles, especially since most of the charges will be brought in blue jurisdictions where leftist activity takes place.
GOP Obstruction
It is also worth noting that Trump continues to face massive obstruction from those nominally on his own side — from corrupt, cowardly elements of the GOP. Republican senators have refused to confirm some of Trump’s best appointments, insisted on maintaining the outdated filibuster and blue slip process while refusing to use the talking filibuster, and have thus made it impossible to pass the SAVE America Act. President Trump has openly called for them to abolish the filibuster and support his agenda, but a sufficient number of corrupt Republicans continue their obstruction.
Don’t Blackpill
Given these efforts and so many more, Trump supporters who may be skeptical or despairing should keep things in perspective. Before you openly declare the defeat of MAGA or Trump’s betrayal of his supporters, consider the totality of circumstances. Trump has taken major steps in the right direction — steps that very few thought we could realistically achieve through the political process and through the GOP at all. We are in a vastly superior position than we were just a few years ago. Everything we have achieved so far has come, directly or indirectly, from Trump; we would have no ascendant America First political movement without his 2016 candidacy and everything he has achieved since. So it is foolish to talk about abandoning Trump or somehow perpetuating MAGA without him now. And even while many question the wisdom of the Iran War, it has not turned out as disastrously as its loudest critics predicted, and Trump seems interested in bringing the conflict to an end, albeit on his own terms.
Politics is not a pick-and-choose buffet. We can either achieve some right-wing success through the Trump administration, or we will get a leftist backlash that will make everything prior look tame in comparison. There is no third option. We are engaged in a titanic struggle against global leftism, and we have barely begun to fight.
Despair is sin. Instead of being quick to criticize Trump, the man in the arena literally risking his life for us, we should consider where we can meaningfully join the effort to reform the GOP, defeat the left, and restore America. Any criticisms of the Trump administration should only be offered in good faith by those who are fighting for our country as hard as the president and his team are. The decline of America is the result of decades of drift and corruption, and that decline will not be reversed overnight. But Trump gives us hope, and giving in to despair only helps his enemies who wish to destroy everything we hold dear.
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