The MAGA Trilogy
We are currently in the after-credits portion of the second film that is the Make America Great Again Movement - and MAGA vol. 3 is gearing up to be better than the first two chapters by large margin
We are nearing the zero barrier and eleventh hour regarding the saving that needs to take place for our dear America and (spoiler alert) we (the America First movement) are operating from our least favorite, but most common position of from behind the eight ball. Hate to say we told you so, but between shows like ours, the Steak for Breakfast Podcast, Steve Bannon’s War Room, our friends at the National Pulse, and top-tier journos the likes of Darren Beattie, Christina Bobb, Julie Kelly and the Molly Hemmingway’s of the world, etc. have been sounding the alarm since mid-2019 regarding this narrative and just look at where that’s gotten us – running head on into the battle for the republic and up against the usual litany of bad actors: our friends operating in both the deep and administrative state, the establishment republicans, the radical, progressive left, the national teachers union, labor unions, big tech and the legacy media. The only thing that is different about this usual formula for disaster that makes 2022 much more of an urgent matter is utter state of things currently ongoing around the world; it’s literally on fire from pole to pole and there is no foreseeable end to the disaster that our planet is currently engulfed in.
To say the Biden Administration has been everything the World Economic Forum and the gang at Davos dreamt about during the Obama years and throughout the short-lived candidacies of Hillary Clinton, and even that is an understatement. The United States is lead now by a completely empty suit, who is paired with an equally inept Vice President Kamala Harris, whose Cabinet is pregnant (not Mayor Pete pregnant, the other kind) with ill-equipped, unprepared and unqualified career yes men and women (how dare I) who have taken their lead in making the wrong decision in every, single item that has crossed their desks since January 21st, 2021. Crime now runs rampant across our major (democratically ran) cities and states, the Southern Border and everything it stood for under the previous administration is now a thing of said past, inflation is now commonly over 10% in most non-rural portions of the country, gas prices are close to $5.00/gal nationwide and between the Afghanistan debacle and the current situation in Ukraine, our presence as a global military superpower just doesn’t seem like a thing anymore. In such a short amount of time, and under the guise of a global pandemic and a fraudulent election we have backslid past every red flag that the framers outlined in our founding documents.
So, what is the plan, or how do we (if that’s even plausible) recover from such a multi-pronged attack that has all but crushed the populist, nationalist movement and MAGA movement? We continue to broadcast bi-weekly, as does Bannon but his show spans six days a week. We’ve seen some of the finest investigative reporting from Raheem Kassam, Natalie Winters and Darren Beattie and others, while books from greats like Dr. Peter Navarro and Miranda Devine have been written to outline our previous falters and future plans for the next advance. But are we as a movement growing tired and weary, after having been subjected to the top to bottom assault that the past 15 months has laid on us? It’s debatable to say the least in my opinion, and even more so scary when you just look at the numbers.
You must start at the top and can’t go much further than the one true leader of the Save America campaign and America First Movement – Donald Trump. At 75 years young, the 45th President of the United States literally seems to be de-aging before our eyes, still crisscrossing the nation, playing 18 holes by day and hosting campaign events by night, and still drawing between fifty and eighty thousand people bi-monthly at his infamous MAGA Rally’s.
Full Stop.
Everything to that point is still quite perfect, although some of those who operate in the MAGAverse will at times, disagree, but, right now, it is what the country needs. It is currently NOT the 2024 Presidential Primary Season, and in that all the man with the MAGA hat can do is stump for the candidates that he is endorsing in the 2022 midterm election season (or at least make it seem that way while he holds pseudo stump speeches across the nation). Campaign finance laws says it’s all he can do, and monetarily, it just makes the most sense while it keeps Trump at and as the centerpiece of the Save America movement. I just watched him perform at a close to 2015 level for approx. 90 minutes in Georgia tonight (3/26/22) – he’s good. Could Trump be doing things different, and maybe even better than he is doing them now? The answer will always be yes, and in these critical times, it is even more important that he be doing so – let’s break it down.
Advisors: This was, is and will always be the most impactful strength and flaw of Donald Trump. The man is old school, he still shakes hands like a 90s businessman because that is what he was, and even in his time as President, was still a major component of his personal character buildup. He lives and dies on results (ahead of schedule and under budget) and deals in handshakes and instinctively feels that reputation is everything, because in an older era, it was. Some of my least favorite stories about the final days of the first Trump presidency were the ones I heard that had Trump alone in the Oval, probably flanked by longtime trusted friend, Dan Scavino and still reeling from the outcome of the rigged and stolen election. Since, Trump has added Liz Harrington to the arsenal, who I in fact, love and youngsters in age but veterans in the trenches like Taylor Budowich and Christina Bobb to help run Save America but again, in my opinion it’s not enough to make the last big push to right this ship in 2024. And after a lot of thoughtful conversations and interviews with some of the biggest players in the game from the previous administration and those who in the media covered it, the consensus is becoming abundantly clear – that we need to get as much of the original band back together as we had in place in 2015 back together again. Everyone from the master statisticians and legal experts like Boris Epshteyn and Matt Braynard to some of the best and brightest of the next generation of heavy hitters like Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, Vish Burra and Amanda Milius. Regardless of how brutal and tiresome that the first four years were, I don’t think we are going to have much of a country left by 2024 unless all the hands-on deck are activated and activated like, never before. The current state of the inner circle just ain’t what it was back in 2015, and we need to get it back there or as close as possible ASAP.
Endorsements: This has been, by far, the most flawed and antagonistic hang up to the base since Trump has left office. It is directly tied to the first agenda item, the current state of the Trumpworld inner circle and leave a bad taste in the mouths of even the most loyal in the MAGA crowd. Whether it be endorsements to candidates that don’t resonate or who are grifters to the President and this movement like, Vernon Jones (over Mike Collins in GA-10), Morgan Ortagus (almost laughably in TN-5 where Robby Starbuck has caught fire) and one’s similar, the non-endorsements of “more than qualified(s)”, like: Eric Greitens (MO Senate), Carla Sands (PA Senate), Anthony Sabatini (FL-7), Doug Mastriano (PA Gov.), Mike Crispi (NJ-4), the list goes on and on. Even look to debacles with what is developing in the Alabama Senate race right now, where last week, Mo Brooks was unendorsed and now maybe the more establishment, RINO-ish version of the republican senate contender, Katie Britt may in turn, absorb it by default? It’s crazy to try and break down, but a large majority of the blame falls onto the shoulders and into the lap of the big guy. Once the dust settled and the sting from the results of 2020 started to subside, Trump should have set up an office, firm, LLC or PAC to get out ahead of vetting these races, candidates, and logistically align with what and who the base wants. Instead, we have had some great endorsements and some awful ones; ranging from U.S. Senate seats down to Texas land surveyors and it’s in there that the message and more importantly the overall value of Trump’s endorsement begins to lose its aura a little bit. The solution here is not as clear cut as it is with rebolstering the inner circle or Trumpworld - in endorsement country, you live and die off of the W-L record, and so far, Trump has been better than average in the kingmaking dept. However, in the races like with Starbuck and with Collins and even Crispi (he is running up against Chris Smith in the New Jersey republican primary and has been the seat holder of NJ-4 for 41 years, the last 30 of which he has permanently resided in the Virgina suburbs) we as the base have to call them out when we see them and continue to push Trump in the direction of the true populist, nationalist, America First movement and not the safe establishment-ish picks that we have seen in some of these races thus far.
The Beltway Connection: This right here is the biggest and most problematic subcategory of everything that is ramping up regarding Trump right now. in 2015, Trump was the first, legitimate Beltway outsider to run for and win the Presidency in the fashion that he did it, ever. As a man who was never allowed in the “cool guys” clubs, although he owned the one’s that they golfed and held events at. He was blocked by the Democrats (Jerry Nadler and friends) to reface the New York waterfront in the early 90s and as never approved for professional sports team ownership for one reason or another every time he threw his name in the hat for one. It would be the same stiffs that in 2016 would be waiting with open arms and fingers crossed behind their backs that would essentially slow to a crawl the Make America Great Again agenda for two years then seamlessly pass the football (not the nuclear one) over to the democrats following the 2018 midterm elections. Between the Obama holdovers, Jeb Bush Republicans, those in the Paul Ryan sect of the Republican Party and Pelosi, Schumer and friends combined with the administrative state counterparts throughout the nation and interwoven into our nations intelligence agencies, we can all come to the conclusion that the first Trump presidency was anything but smooth sailing. In fact, the entirety of it was a Cat 5 hurricane - and still look at all that Trump was able to accomplish.
You would think after a lifetime of having to deal with this apparatus that’s been fortified for decades to keep outsiders out and to slow walk the nation towards a one-world empire Trump would have kept some notes, made some points to be able to reflect back to, or even have learned some fairly harsh lessons. In the republican party especially, there is a deep-rooted cancer that, at this juncture in time, is fighting for its life up against nationalist populism. At the center of this are two of the most familiar suspects - the face of the establishment, country club conservatives and leaders of the RINOs - Mitch (the turtle from the Never-ending Story) McConnell in the Senate and in the House, Kevin (ass kisser) McCarthy. Mitch McConnell is a little easier to deal with in my opinion, at the end of his career (81 years old) and in a body like the U.S. Senate the numbers of America First senators coming in -Walker (GA) and Laxalt (NV) will get us to 52 and I think we can even do a bit better than that in 2022.
Kevin McCarthy is well known in the republican party as one of the biggest money makers in the history of the business. But as this can be viewed as a gift to some in the party, it’s been a curse to others - especially those running America First campaigns across the nation right now for the midterms. Joe Kent, who is running in WA-3 against a never Trumper has come under fire recently and has had to contend with McCarthy funneling money into the incumbents, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s campaign even after Trump has endorsed Kent. McCarthy has also navigated the grey area when it comes to Liz Cheney, and her Trump endorsed primary challenger, Harriet Hageman. Even CNN sees it, clear as day: “McCarthy's support of those lawmakers puts him directly at odds with Trump, who is on a revenge tour against the Republicans who voted to impeach him or have sharply criticized him. But McCarthy dismissed the idea it would imperil their efforts to recapture the House.” And that whole narrative boils down to one thing: McCarthy wants to be the Speaker of the House, and he isn’t willing to give it away to anyone whom he cannot control, in layman’s terms means: anyone who is loyal to Trump and the movement over the establishment party lines. I am thankful to see that this problem is working itself out however, we have hosted dozens of candidates who are going to win House seats and the overwhelming majority of them who much rather see Jim Jordan, Jim Banks or even Donald Trump take the gavel away from Nancy Pelosi and ensure that the Save America movement is safe in 2023 and beyond.
The Next Steps and the Rise of Dark MAGA: It is long overdue to take to the offensive. In less than eight months, we will decide at the ballot box on whether or not this movement is fit to take back the White House in 2024. Paying homage to the Meme War of 2016, the #DarkMAGA movement is rising online and establishing a frontline operation to counter the cancel culture from the radical, progressive left. As I have pointed out for a long time now, memers and shitposters have the ability to not only sway the news narrative, but they now can also control the entire cycle with some with some tactical memes.
The man behind the National Pulse., Raheem Kassam recently penned his best description of the movement: “Dark MAGA is about the course of empire, and where America stands in that process. It is simultaneously a rejection of decline, with an admission that so much has already occurred. And perhaps even the smirking suspicion that more must occur – especially at an institutional level – before America can be re-founded, or reformed.
It almost represents a last throw of the American dice.”
And there it is.
There has never been a time in this movement to be more vigilant than there is right now. We as a collective and as intricate parts of this movement need to call it when we see it, and yes - hold Trump accountable when those who surround him are not advising him with the same ideals that we hold in the MAGA movement. We did it once (probably twice), and I feel that we are going to do it again, and do it better, than ever before. But it’s going to take hard truths, unwavering dedication and memes the like the world has never seen. The establishment republicans and the radical, progressive left, combined with the RINOs, the administrative state and all the other players involved are hoping and praying that we have had enough, that we’re bruised, beaten, and scared to suffer the same fate of those who have previously been persecuted for participating in the movement. I think we have at least another major go left in us, and then some. And we best all be ready - because the time leading up to the 2022 midterm elections is essentially the after credits of the second movie in the trilogy that is this movement. If we play our cards right and hold the line, then the last chapter in this three-volume set is on course to be better than the first two, by a large margin.