Trump 2.0 Must Expose and Prosecute America's Enemies - Foreign and Domestic

The number one issue for the U.S. to confront over the next decade is rooting out, identifying, and neutralizing the enemies of our nation that have taken hold of our institutions.

Originally published at American Greatness (July 31, 2024)

The assassination attempt on Donald Trump on July 13 flipped a switch in many Never Trumpers. The realization of the evil we face in America hit many of them hard. This leads us to a wider discussion of the enemies we know have infiltrated our institutions and set policies and actions in motion that run counter to our civil society.

America faces an inflection point. Our nation has come to realize the massive frauds perpetrated on us since at least 2020, frauds that had their seeds planted decades ago by the enemies of America. Frauds that include faked science, corrupted public health institutions, phony campaigns against “misinformation,” false accusations and prosecutions of political enemies, unfounded claims of systemic racism, and erosion of our trust in elections—and many of our other societal institutions.

Victor Davis Hanson recently asked, “After nearly a decade of utter madness, can we finally order the FBI, DOJ, and CIA to butt out of our elections? Can a bankrupt media cease whipping up hysterias about a supposed Nazi-like takeover? Can the left stop relying on washed-up British spies, corrupt ex-spooks, and teams of clownish partisan prosecutors? Instead, why not, at last, just let the people choose their own president?”

In asking these questions, Hanson illuminates the problems we’ve created by allowing an out-of-control federal government to grow beyond anything the Founders would recognize. The government has not merely become bloated, inefficient, and profligate with its wasteful spending. The enormity of the problem has subsequently created conditions in which corruption runs rampant, and the enemies of liberty roam free.

Those enemies may come from places like Tehran, Doha, Pyongyang, or Beijing—or they may come from San Francisco, Queens, Cambridge, or Dearborn. We have seen a long parade of whistleblowers publicly revealing the rot at the Secret Service, tasked with protecting current and former officeholders; at the FBI and CIA, in their phony pursuit of Trump supporters veiled as a hunt for “domestic terrorists;” and all the way into cabinet departments, like this letter from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) in May 2024 alleging that John Kerry, while Secretary of State, blocked the arrest of Iranian terrorists in America because it might jeopardize the Iran nuclear deal.

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That’s just the Iranian influence. The Biden administration—and the Obama administration before it—have all turned a blind eye to infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Look no further than the spies who got close to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). Lawrence Sellin points it out plainly: “America has a massive pro-Chinese Communist Party Fifth Column problem.”

The international communist influence came to America’s shores over a century ago. It has had far more influence than most Americans realize. Critical race theory—CRT—has grabbed the headlines in recent years, but the critical theory that undergirds it has its origins in the Frankfurt School. J. Michael Waller writes about this influence in his eye-opening new book, Big Intel, in which he reveals how Marxian thinkers occupied many positions of leadership in the CIA and its predecessor organizations. Scholars from the Kremlin-supported Frankfurt School—formally known as the Institute for Social Research—came to America and set out to take over our institutions after World War II.

We’ve seen deeper levels of infiltration in the decades since.

Donald Trump is not a perfect vessel for implementing conservative policy. In fact, his original campaign in 2015 and 2016 may have started as a vanity project. He quickly came to realize, however, a couple of things, especially as voters responded to his outsider’s view of the campaign. One, he found the enormity of federal bureaucratic inefficiency and waste offensive to his business instincts. He’d dealt with that for decades from the outside, as a real estate investor, but seeing it from the inside gave him unparalleled perspective on the problem. And two, he found that anyone who wanted to upset the way the Swamp conducts business would be set upon by forces heretofore unseen in American culture.

The very presence of Donald Trump as a sort of foreign body in the bloodstream of the inside-the-beltway crowd caused an autoimmune response to protect the monopolistic and monolithic bureaucracies. In doing so, Trump revealed the rot in the system for all to see.

One thing has become clear since 2015: If we don’t defeat the enemies of our culture that have made their long march through our institutions, perpetrating a deliberate Color War akin to that ignited in China by Mao Tse Tung, we’ll never get to a point where we can implement sound policy.

We must make as many public examples of the Marxist, Islamist, and anarchist infiltrators of our government and our institutions as possible. Not simply for their beliefs, of course, but because they have declared us the enemy and have set about undermining everything that holds our nation together. They’ve brought along an alarming number of Americans into the anti-American and anti-West movement.

If we can uncover and prosecute America’s foes, we may be able to slow the cancer enough to excise it. So, while Donald Trump is not the perfect vessel for implementing conservative policy, he must rise to the occasion in a second term and dedicate his entire administration to investigating and prosecuting those who would do our nation harm.

It’s a huge task, and it will be divisive at first, but our nation cries out for it. We cannot go on like this, tolerating deliberate societal suicide. Eventually, conducting these investigations will have the effect of bringing about a renewed sense of patriotism and shared values. We might consider it a new Cold War.

Defeat the enemies first. That’s our only current priority. After that, we can rebuild our society with sound public policy—proposed, implemented, and carried out by men and women of backbone, character, and good morals.

Remember those?

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