Trump’s July 16 Speech: The Big Picture

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President Trump’s speech last Thursday, a few months before the 2026 midterms, was dull and boring, a disappointment to political enthusiasts. It paled before President Biden’s flaming red pre-midterm speech of September 1, 2022, Battle for the Soul of the Nation, given right in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, as it should be.

All President Trump did was inform us of a few minor items, such as vulnerabilities in electronic voting, China getting access to the records of hundreds of millions of U.S. voters -- information that our devoted intelligence professionals thoughtfully redacted from presidential intelligence briefings -- and the curious case of non-citizens on the voter rolls. Nothing to see here, move right along.

It is good to learn that by 2020 our intelligence professionals had re-professionalized themselves. In 2016, you will recall, they were unprofessionally eager to back the Russia, Russia narrative cooked up by the Clinton campaign.

Of course, it is easy to see that the point of Trump’s speech was to drum up more support for his explosive SAVE Act, which Senator Thune, whose state is close to Canadian wildfires, has sensibly put on the back burner.

But I wonder if Sen. Thune will succeed. I suspect that the whole point of the president’s speech was to ignite a wildfire of prosecutions and executive actions over the next few months related to election security. Presumably he and his aides, staffers, and allies in Congress imagine that, confused by the thick smoke of election cheating, Congress will finally pass the SAVE Act and/or Republican voters will be motivated to go to the polls.

I understand the instinctive reluctance of the alphabet TV networks to broadcast the president’s speech live. Although experts agree that the legacy media deploys the best minds in the business yet, like every human social institution, our beloved media magnates hesitate to do anything that might advance the cause of the racist-sexist-homophobe armed-insurrectionist supporters of President Trump and harm the glorious achievements of the administrative state and its worthy practitioners that have delivered so much to this nation over the last century.

What is happening? Where is America going? What does it mean? Where will it all end up?

I think the place to start is Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public. Here’s the Grok situation report.

Industrial-age institutions (governments, political parties, media, academia, etc.) relied on a near-monopoly over information to maintain authority and legitimacy.

The internet and social media created a tsunami of information, empowering ordinary people (the "public") to access, share, and scrutinize data that was once controlled by elites.

Grok analysis:

This shift has led to a crisis of authority: Elites and hierarchical institutions have lost control of the narrative, while a networked public can now rapidly expose failures, contradictions, and hypocrisies.

Do you see the point? When alphabet networks don’t broadcast the president’s speech, they are signaling that “they have lost control of the narrative” and they don’t want to “expose failures.”

When the DSA kiddies say they want to “abolish the Senate” they are showing us that they don’t get the whole point of the Constitution and its “separation of powers.” Because, hey, we academically trained DSAs know how to fix the world, and nothing will stop us.

No, Ashik Siddique. You are desperately -- or willfully -- ignorant, because you know nothing except what you were carefully taught. And what you were carefully taught in a ruling-class seminary was the ideological orthodoxy of the educated ruling class.

Now I am in the middle of reading Julius Evola, whom some have branded a fascist. And it´s curious how his rendition of “The World of Tradition,” with its notion of “Regality” and “The Mystery of the Rite,” maps against the regality of Commie dictatorship and the sacred rite of the protest.

No doubt as The Revolt of the Public battles against the domination and hegemony of the educated class here and in Europe, there will be ups and downs.

Then there is the other little problem. Back in 1963, a year or so after President Kennedy fired Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, JFK was assassinated and the intelligence community had nothing to do with the case. In 1974, President Nixon was removed from office, and the fact that Woodward and Bernstein were communicating with W. Mark Felt at the FBI had nothing to do with the case. In the Iran-Contra scandal that threatened President Reagan, the IC had nothing to do with the case. In the Russia, Russia scandal, the Obama administration had nothing to do with the case. In the question of removing data from the presidential intelligence briefing in 2020 about Chinese access to voter records in 2020, the intelligence community had nothing to do with the case.

Do you understand yet?

Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill blogs at The Commoner Manifesto and runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also get his American Manifesto and his Road to the Middle Class.

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