Getting Rid of Trump is About Restoring Control to the Elites

Getting rid of Trump was supposed to have happened in 2016. Trump was supposed to lose decidedly to Hillary Clinton and prove once and for all that regular Americans needed to remain subservient to government, media, academia, and big tech elites. The second-tier bootlickers in conservative media were supposed to be able to stand on their intellectual high horses and lecture the rest of us that a win is only a win if it can be done within the intellectual, media-defined bounds of respectability.

Then Trump won. Suddenly the elites were scrambling. They had entirely misjudged the general feelings of the electorate and they quickly repositioned themselves to look like they were with us the whole time. But they never were. In reality, they were fully expecting to lecture us on how dumb we were not to listen to them. Despite their sudden shift to populist-sounding rhetoric, they wanted desperately for Trump to crash and burn so they could get back to normal. After all, they were still smarter than us. They were still much more capable of figuring out what was truly good for us. Trump was the tattooed biker we had decided to slum around with before returning to marry the boring but respectable banker. These were still the same people who wanted to be guests for Anderson Cooper or Joe Scarborough.

True America first conservatives always knew that the so-called conservative media largely existed to be the flip side of the Washington establishment coin – primarily existing to provide a counterbalance to the dominant big-government establishment. The conservative values this second-tier media supports are largely shared by liberal elites – “free” global trade absent any concern for country, regulation of religious conviction and expression to private lives (if it has to exist at all), and individual value as nothing more than the product of credentials and economic usefulness. These values are shared by Washington and media elites of every partisan flavor, and they have no interest in Americans being truly self-governing and free from their importance and expertise. They are technocrats who’s conservatism is plays useful idiot to their belief in their ability to tell everyone else how to live their lives.

The Trump ascendancy was a strike at the very heart of what gave these people their power and their sense of importance. Suddenly regular Americans realized that we didn’t need these supposed intellectuals to tell us how or what to think. We didn’t have to be respectable or care what elites thought about us or play the game by the rules they set up. Most importantly, our rights didn’t exist because an intellectual case could be made for them, they existed because God gave them to us. We were free from our first breath.

True conservatives wanted was a leader who cared more about fighting for them than the leader cared about being respected by the intellectual class. A leader who, more than making all the right moves, was unapologetically on their side. Trump (with his history of progressivism) seemed like an unlikely torch-bearer, but in truth might have been the perfect man for the job. He is unapologetic to a fault, hard-working, and fiercely pro-America. He’s the kind of guy that will pop off about things he hasn’t vetted to a focus group. Like America, he genuinely believes his way is better than yours – and in many ways it is. And he won’t hesitate to punch you right in the mouth if you disrespect his country or his countrymen.

This is the America that started shooting at the British over a 1.5% tax increase. This is the America where anyone of any intellectual capability or pedigree can make it if they are willing to work hard enough. This is the America that stands up for freedom in a world that largely hates them. And this is the America that will stubbornly lie to pollsters just to be ornery, them vote for Trump anyway.

The elites and the second-tier elites in so-called conservative media (I’m looking at you National Review, The Spectator, Daily Caller, and the biggest duck in the puddle Fox News) are more than happy to return things to the pre-Trump status quo where once again they are the respected losers. Much the same way a helpless, scared public is good for the business of big government and legacy news, a following of helpless conservative Americans is good for the business of agitating conservative media. These outlets will agitate just enough to get you to subscribe and stay mad, but not enough to actually change the country. These conservatives are the string quartet on the deck of the Titanic.

In Roland Emmerich’s 2000 movie The Patriot, Tom Wilkinson’s General Cornwallis tells Mel Gibson’s Benjamin Martin of his concern that Martin’s men are not fighting in a respectable manner, and asks him to stop shooting officers so the battlefield can remain civilized:

Cornwallis: Colonel, you must know that in civilized warfare, officers in the field must not be accorded inappropriate levels of hostile intention.

Martin: To your mind, what are appropriate levels of hostile intention?

Cornwallis: Oh Colonel, imagine the utter chaos that would follow from leaderless armies having at each other. There must be gentlemen in command to lead and when necessary restrain their men.

Martin: Restrain them from – say – targeting civilians? Women, children, and such?

Cornwallis: That’s a separate issue.

Martin: No, no. I consider them linked. And as long as your soldiers attack civilians I will order the shooting of officers at the outset of every engagement. And my men are excellent marksmen.

The Patriot (2000)

The cucks in conservative media and intellectual circles would never be Benjamin Martin. They would back off as soon as Cornwallis recognized them as a fellow gentleman and allow the ideological forces marshaled against America to continue to ravage our businesses, family values, and Constitutionally-recognized freedoms. But away from Washington and New York, we are fighting for our very lives and those of our families. We don’t value respectability over principle. We don’t care how much smarter than us you think you are, nor what Ivy League degree you possess. We don’t have fledgling conservative papers that are happy feeding off the table scraps of legacy media and breathlessly trying to garner respect from people who despise us – we’re just regular Americans willing to use our voices, our votes, and (if absolutely necessary) our guns to fight for righteousness and protect what God gave us. It will never be the feckless pansies in legacy opposition media, but God willing there will always be patriots willing to shoot officers at the outset of every engagement. May we have the courage to keep fighting.