Is It A Wake Up?

Syria fell. European leaders seemed to warmly greet Trump at the re-opening of Notre Dame in Paris. The bitter clinger Obama interviewed Merkel in Washington, D.C. Virtually every President leaves DC after exiting office, but not Obama. He was never “for the people.” As John Kass expertly chronicles, it was always all about him.

Germany is in a world of hurt because of Merkel’s leadership. Macron is looking weak in France, and the recently elected Prime Minister lost their job. In Italy, Meloni is strong. All she has to do is follow in the footsteps of Argentina’s Mileil.

The pope from his wheelchair said that the US ought to let illegals in. Has a pope been this tone-deaf and this out of touch in the last 80 years? I appreciate his concern and empathy but his knowledge of economics is juvenile. Maybe he should stick to scripture instead of politicizing it.

Trump’s election in the US was not expected by the intellectuals of the world. In fact, they dreaded it. Just read the FT or WSJ. In the US, the Democrats still don’t accept it and still don’t understand Trump’s appeal. Their hubris knows no limits. Trump voters can’t see time go fast enough. Biden gave almost another billion dollars to Ukraine last week.

Now that Syria has collapsed, I want to pull an excerpt from today’s WSJ opinion page.

It’s worth recalling Barack Obama’s role in keeping Mr. Assad in power. Mr. Obama declined to support the opposition in any important way and then refused to enforce his “red line” against Mr. Assad’s use of sarin and chlorine gas to kill his own people.

Incredibly, Mr. Obama invited Russia to help end the civil war. Vladimir Putin obliged by joining with Iran to prop up Mr. Assad, elbowing the U.S. out, and establishing an air base and a long-desired naval base on the Mediterranean. This misjudgment helped Iran expand its Axis of Resistance from Tehran to Beirut. It also reversed the strategic triumph achieved by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1970s in minimizing the Soviet Union’s influence in the Middle East.

The fall of the Assad government is a defeat for Russia and Iran. It shows the Kremlin can’t always protect a client state, which could have ramifications elsewhere as Mr. Putin tries to build an anti-American axis with China. It’s a particular defeat for Iran, which loses its Alawite ally to what is likely to be a Sunni Arab government. Iran’s arms supply route to its Hezbollah proxies in Lebanon will be disrupted.

None of this is the result of President Biden’s foreign policy. Like Mr. Obama, his Middle East priority has been appeasing Iran. This culminated in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre by Hamas that led Iran and its proxies to imagine they had Israel on the run.

The Democrats do not understand foreign policy and since the cultural core of today’s Democratic Party hates America, they seek to find and appease those same values when they engage with other countries. Other countries are happy to oblige—especially Russia, China, and Iran.

The mainstream media continues to have temper tantrums. They realize by the results of this election, they have no influence anymore. It’s X who is the influencer. The structure of the mainstream media goes against the deeply embedded parts of humanity that seek freedom and a voice. Mainstream media dictates. X participates. When the Syrian people realized the rebels won their first thought was for freedom.

This election was about a lot of things but mainly I think it was about how intrusive and weaponized the government became. Taxpayers think they are wasting their money. Our debt exploded. We saw billions get shoveled to Ukraine when there wasn’t popular support for that action while at the same time, the Biden administration tried to shackle Israel after they were brutally attacked. There was support for Israel despite the protests you saw at places like Columbia University. Covid’s grift was uncovered and the trillions we spent on it were a waste and screwed up our economy.

As $DOGE starts to warm up its engines, bureaucrats shudder. Mainstream media stories abound trying to scare us. “Who will cut your grass?” “Will you be safe?” Lefty Democratic Venture capitalist investor Paul Graham opined that the bureaucrats will just wait the reformers out as they always have. How do you wait it out when the department is eliminated? They better be polishing their resumes. Maybe state governments can hire them. Government bureaucrats are not economically efficient producers in our capitalistic society.

Management experts criticize Musk’s style of management. It doesn’t fit into a business school case. Those same experts didn’t like Steve Jobs either. Both certainly aren’t perfect and have flaws, but they are human and the results speak for themselves.

Here is an example of an email. It’s short. It’s to the point. It’s actionable. It’s clear.

The bureaucracy never has had this sort of management foisted upon it. Even Reagan in his ardor to cut bureaucracy finessed it. He was silky smooth and humorous. Trump is not. He is a bull in a china shop and Musk is too. See what he did with X.

My hope is that we are on the precipice of something a lot of us small government conservatives have hoped for. Maybe finally, finally, we will get it.