They thought they had us on the run with the Epstein nonsense, and it was an annoying tangent for a little while, but that’s done now. Trump the Conqueror is back again, putting wins up on the scoreboard and moving forward. Breaking the EU to his will is just his latest victory. We’ve got 3 1/2 more years of glory ahead, but we need to watch out because the Democrats are going to get more desperate than usual.
I’m not saying they might go so crazy as to make my new novel, American Apocalypse: The Second Civil War, come true, but they might go so crazy as to make my new novel come true.
For the first six months, Trump had quite a run going, closing down the border, annihilating the Iranian nuclear program, and passing the Big Beautiful Bill, as well as win after win in the courts, plus a total reset of the culture in terms of defunding government-sponsored communist media and government-sponsored communist academia. DEI is DOA. The tariffs didn’t bring about Armageddon; instead, they generated $100 billion for the Treasury without spiking inflation. But everything that goes up must come down.
And it did come down, temporarily, with the badly bungled Epstein rollout. The sad fact is that the administration raised hopes too high. Because conservatives are the abused wives of American politics who have absolutely no trust – and should have absolutely no trust – in anything, it got itself mired in the fallout of the creepy weirdo’s death. We got what we had always wanted, which was to have absolutely trustworthy people like Dan Bongino go in and take a look at the unreleased evidence, because all the stuff can’t possibly be released due to its grotesque nature, and report back on what they found. Well, the report was that they found not much at all. There’s no list of clients helpfully compiled by the weirdo with annotations about their preferred perversions. There’s no notarized PowerPoint slide deck of wrongdoing. There’s no videotape of Epstein channeling Ernst Stavro Blofeld and explaining his entire scheme to James Bond. It appears to be a creepy weirdo in his personal life who likes to hang around celebrities – yes, he was at Donald Trump’s wedding, along with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barbara Walters, Shaquille O’Neal, and a bunch of other familiar faces. But there’s no evidence that Epstein was running a huge international ring of sickos. Nor is there any evidence that Trump participated in his perversions – but you knew that, because if there were even a hint of impropriety, it would’ve been blasted all over the front page of the New York Times back in 2016.
Still, some of the folks on our side objected, feeling betrayed and lied to. The terribly handled rollout of the information by members of the administration was no help, but in fairness, a few of our people were never going to accept any answer other than the worst-case scenario. That’s the problem with conspiracy theories - at some level, their advocates want them to be true. One communist jerk in a school book depository with Marine marksmanship training and a rifle is a lot less interesting than a massive CIA plot involving the mob, the military-industrial complex, and the saucer people.
Most of us were willing to take “yuck” for an answer, and the Epstein affair polled down around temperance and American-Mauritanian relations on the list of things Republicans were most concerned about, but enough people were angry that it became a minor kerfuffle for the Democrats to exploit.
Suddenly, the members of the party that had the Epstein files in hand for the last four years were outraged that the non-existent docs aren’t being released now. It was transparently hypocritical, but that doesn’t matter. Democrats are born without a shame gene. They really thought they had something going and coordinated a narrative with every senator’s intern tweeting on their behalf about it. A normal Republican would have collapsed and given in. Luckily, Trump isn’t a normal Republican. He refused to play along and forced Mike Johnson not to play along and to send everyone home before they could make a bigger deal out of this nothingburger. The Democrats may try to resurrect the pseudo-scandal when they return in a few weeks, but by then, Trump will have not only secured the European Union trade deal but also accomplished some other objectives in the meantime. Epsteingate will fade.
The Dems’ problem is that they have nothing better in their quiver. What are they going to argue about? We should have more kiddie trans mutilations? We should have let those Iranians get the bomb? We should throw open the gates to uncounted hordes of Third World chiselers again? Epstein was the best weapon that they had, and it was pretty crappy. Epstein was a greedy scumbag, but he’s a dead greedy scumbag, so move on. What really matters is that America is at peace and the economy is booming. That’s what’s going to determine the 2026 midterms. And right now, America is at peace and the economy is booming.
So, what you’re going to see is desperation. The Democrats have to get more radical and more intense because that’s the only thing that’s going to satisfy the coterie of psychopaths that make up their base. The smartest play for them would be to be rational, and to be calm, and to try to work with Trump where they can and oppose him on things he does that aren’t quite as popular as the other things he does. But they can’t do that. Their base is kooky. It’s operating on emotion. What gets rewarded is not somebody who can rationally make his case to normal Americans in a way that normal Americans might appreciate. What gets rewarded is a lunatic screaming about how Trump, federal law enforcement, and anybody who voted for Trump are literally Nazis. They just accused starlet Sydney Sweeney of being a Nazi for not being a fat, pierced, blue-haired mutant. That’s nuts. These people just spent $20 million trying to figure out how to appeal to men and then decided that the best course of action was to hate on pretty girls. Well, they are the folks who thought that they could convince men to vote against Donald Trump because he was scoring with Playboy playmates.
They can’t help it. They’re so wrapped up in their bizarre, pagan communist ideology that they are unable to coolly and rationally assess their opponents, size up our weaknesses, and ruthlessly exploit them. Instead, they are reactive and clumsy, substituting anger and vitriol for the kind of approaches that could appeal to the normal Americans who just want to live their lives. Pundits talk about how Biden was elected as the candidate of normalcy, and maybe that’s true, but he was undone because everyone around him was totally abnormal, and he was an eggplant to boot.
The normal politician is Donald Trump. That’s because the normal state of affairs is an America at peace. The normal state of affairs is an America with a booming economy. The normal state of affairs is an America where SSRI-gobbling wine women can’t chop off their little kids’ genitals in order to make themselves more interesting to other SSRI-gobbling wine women.
The old saw by James Carville is correct, but it doesn’t go far enough. Yes, it’s the economy, stupid. But now it’s more than that. It’s the normalcy, you freaking weirdos.
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