Trump 2.0: Harbinger of a New Elite?

I voted for Trump and would do it again. We escaped permanent rule by the left, so this website won’t be considered a criminal enterprise for at least four years. And it’s quite clear that Trump 2.o will be very different from Trump 1.o with his horrible, self-defeating appointments and the constant harassing and obstruction by his DOJ, the national security agencies, the Pentagon, and the Democrats (impeachments, investigations, lawfare). Trump has obviously learned something from his mistakes and is now targeting the prime culprit: the federal bureaucracy—the deep state that is in large part responsible for his ineffectual first term and has continued to pursue him since he left office.

It’s going to be different.

Somehow disruption doesn’t begin to cover it. Upheaval might be closer. Revolution maybe. In less than two weeks since being elected again, Donald J. Trump has embarked on a new campaign to shatter the institutions of Washington as no incoming president has in his lifetime. here

Trump’s appointments make it clear that he intends to be a transformative president—a president that future historians will record as a watershed figure between an old and a new America. Of course, he may not fulfill his intentions—there will be many roadblocks, not the least from the remaining stuffed-shirt Republicans who want their world to return to the GOP of Jeb Bush, Bill Kristol, and Liz Cheney.

So far his appointments that have caused the most angst in the legacy media and among liberals are RFK Jr. (Health and Human Services), Matt Gaetz (Justice), Pete Hegseth (Defense), and Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence). Each would be a thorn in the side of the Establishment. Each could be expected to lop off the most odious people within their purview. Make no mistake, heads will roll, and we would be far better off for it.

I very much hope they all get confirmed. This includes RFK Jr. who would be a great Secretary of Health and Human Services. He does not oppose vaccines (“I’m not going to take away anyone’s vaccines”) but makes a strong case that the RNA vaccines for covid have been a disaster—the school lockdowns, a result of teacher union lobbying, were a disaster for children, the least likely group to be negatively impacted by the virus. No more mandates. And whatever you think of his opinions on vaccines, his opinions on processed foods, food additives, and pesticides in foods are of critical importance in starting to make America healthy again. And he will end the revolving door between the federal regulators and the companies they regulate. It’s no surprise that the previous Secretary of HHS was a Latino identity-politics appointee with no experience at all in these areas.

U.S. — Citizens in the most obese, unhealthy country on the face of the planet have expressed concern that new Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might try to do a few things differently.

With seventy-five percent of the adult population now overweight or obese, government officials expressed deep reservations about doing anything differently whatsoever. Thousands of employees within Health and Human Services have even threatened to quit if the new Secretary tries to get the country to change direction in some way.

“RFK Jr. is a nut and his ideas are crazy,” said FDA employee Sharon Wilmington, as she slapped a “Heart Healthy” sticker on a box of Froot Loops. “We obviously have this thing under control.”

Gaetz and Hegseth are being criticized because of charges of sexual improprieties. I get it, and there may be something to the charges. But I really don’t care. The point is that they will clean house in two areas desperately in need of overhaul. Selecting Matt Gaetz as Attorney General is a giant middle finger to the Justice Department. “None of the [other candidate] attorneys had what Trump wants, and they didn’t talk like Gaetz,” a Trump adviser told the Bulwark. “Everyone else looked at AG as if they were applying for a judicial appointment. They talked about their vaunted legal theories and constitutional bullshit. Gaetz was the only one who said, ‘yeah, I’ll go over there and start cuttin’ fuckin’ heads.’”

Hegseth will likely be the same. The system needs a massive shake-up, and they’ll do it. Interests over principles is foreign to a lot of White people, but Democrats who act all principled on this issue looked the other way or made excuses for the obvious corruption that pervaded the Biden family during its time in power. They ignored Biden’s obvious senility and they colluded in Hunter laptop scandal, the Russiagate hoax and much else. And now they are counting votes in Pennsylvania ruled invalid by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (Ellis-Marseglia said that “precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country” because “people violate laws anytime they want”). Unfortunately for the Dems, the court reiterated its ruling.

Tulsi Gabbard horrifies the left because she is steadfastly against wars that are not in U.S. interests. Amazingly for a major public figure, she is on the Quiet Skies secret terrorist watch list which means she has been subjected to added security checks at airports. She will clean house on this issue, and it’s very reassuring to see that Gabbard is slated to be in the administration as Director of National Intelligence, replacing the half-Jewish Avril Haines. She is very much against the Ukraine war, as are J.D. Vance, Tucker Carlson (who, even though he has no official position in Trump 2.0, certainly has influence), proposed National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and proposed Secretary of State Marco Rubio (“Trump’s Foreign Policy Picks Are All America First“).  So fears that Trump 2.0 would see the re-ascendency of neocon-minded war hawks are overblown to say the least. It’s hard to believe that anyone ever seriously mentioned Mike Pompeo as possible Secretary of Defense.

But yes, Trump 2.0 will be very pro-Israel, as seen by the appointments of Evangelical Protestant Mike (“There’s no such thing as a Palestinian”) Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel, Zionist  Steve Witkoff as Special Envoy to the Middle East, Marco Rubio, a strong supporter of Israel, who objected to linking the foreign aid bill to aid for Ukraine, as Secretary of State, and Elise Stefanik, who earned her stripes by her aggressive questioning of Ivy League presidents’ responses to pro-Palestinian protests, as UN Ambassador.  In my opinion, these appointments are a testament to the power of Jews in the U.S.; similar policies will occur regardless of whether the Dems or GOP are in power, although it’s reasonable to think that Trump 2.o will be even more pro-Israel than Biden-Harris in word if not in deed. Prepare for the Jewish resettlement of Gaza. Israel is the only country in the world that can engage in ethnic cleansing with impunity.

One has to believe, as I do, that policy toward Israel does not indicate a general pro-war stance in Trump 2.o. The worry is that Israel will be aggressive to the point that Iran and perhaps Turkey, which has severed all ties with Israel, would join up with other Middle Eastern countries to wage all-out war against Israel. That would certainly drag the U.S. into the war, and doing so may very well be Israel’s strategy: the thinking would be that genocide, oppression, and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians along with aggressive military encroachments against Israel’s neighbors would ultimately lead to a war that the U.S. could not stay out of. Already we have seen the U.S. military defending Israel against retaliatory attacks by Iran. But I very much doubt that Trump could be persuaded to start a war with Iran—the war that the Lobby has wanted for years.

Trump 2.0 will be multiethnic because that’s the way it has to be in contemporary America. But it won’t be obsessed with identity politics the way the previous administration has been.

But the interesting question is whether this portends a sea change in American elites—the rise of an elite that could replace the current liberal-left, substantially Jewish elite that has dominated American politics and discourse for the last 60 years and is still very powerful. But if the election showed anything, it’s that the mass media, a major stronghold of the liberal-left elite, has lost much of its power. The New York Times published a daily blizzard of articles lambasting Trump in the runup to the election, and the NYT’s influence percolates through the entire liberal-left media landscape. To no avail. Trust in the media is at an all-time low, while social media continues its rise, including Elon Musk’s X which is leaning much more conservative than in pre-Musk days. (Reading comments on Kamala Harris’s posts on X was a real treat. She was slaughtered.) With his wealth and influence over X, Musk is a huge asset for the forces in opposition to the liberal-left consensus. And frankly, I think he loves being in the limelight and basking in the adulation that high-level political involvement brings.

This new coalition will not be anti-Jewish, but neither will it be run by Jews to anywhere near the extent that the previous elite has been. Religious Jews and some Jewish billionaires have supported Trump, while the general Jewish community likely voted between 71–79 percent for Harris. Results depended greatly on whether religious Jews were polled (~40% for Trump among religious Jews vs. ~25% Trump support among of non-religious Jews—non-religious Jews are over 90 percent of the Jewish population):

A poll conducted by the Democratic firm GBAO Strategies, sponsored by the partisan organization J Street and widely touted by the Jewish Democratic Council of America [JDCA]—which used the same pollster for an October poll that reported a similar outcome—brought the reassuring news that only 25% of Jewish voters in Pennsylvania went for Trump, comparable to the reported 26% of Jews that voted for him nationally. Granted, that represents a 5-point improvement from what the firm found in a similar study amid the 2020 vote, although in the view of Halie Soifer, CEO of the JDCA, “increasing one’s share of the Jewish vote by 5% when the margin of error is 3.5% is not meaningful.”

…  “The biggest problem Democrats have with Jewish voters is there aren’t more of them, because if there were there’d be very different outcomes,” Jim Gerstein, lead pollster for GBAO, said in a Nov. 13 conference call organized by JDCA. “They’re not a swing constituency, and they’re certainly not a Republican constituency,” Gerstein added later in the event. “You have to look at the Jewish population as a core Democratic base constituency.”

So, not much evidence of change, although the Tablet article notes that precinct-by-precinct totals indicate a general shift toward Trump. According to the JDCA poll, the main issues for Jews who voted against Trump were that they see Trump as a threat to democracy and to abortion access, typical liberal-left concerns (although they would love an authoritarian leftist government). Trump has said that Jews who vote for Harris “need to have their head examined,” so it wouldn’t be too surprising to see Trump harbor some resentment against liberal-left Jewish power and try to do something about it. As indicated above, I think at bottom most Jews see Israel as doing fine with either party in power, so they gravitate to what I regard as the anti-White coalition represented by the Democrat  mainstream.

As of August 14 according to Forbes, of 26 billionaire donors to Trump (not including Musk who donated at least $119 million), 22 are not Jewish, while 4, including Bernard Marcus (who recently died) are Jewish, with only one in the top ten (Miriam Adelson [$100 million]). This may well underestimate total Jewish giving to Trump, but it does imply that there is plenty of non-Jewish money supporting Trump—enough to make a Trump-like candidate in our pay-to-play democracy viable even without Jewish support. Harris received over $1 billion in campaign contributions, over 2.5 times the amount Trump received. Money talks but can’t overcome terrible policies (e.g., Harris’s support for radical pro-trans policies like government-paid sex change operations for prisoners and illegals was a disaster) and a terrible candidate, especially when that candidate is supported by a media that is vastly less influential than in previous decades.

The most powerful positions in the Biden cabinet related to the issues of most interest to White advocates have been held by Jews—Homeland Security (Mayorkas), Justice (Garland), State (Blinken), and Chief of Staff (Klain, Zientz). This is critical because Biden is and has been a complete non-entity with no ability or desire to rein in his nominal subordinates. So we have mass immigration, mass injustice, and a very expensive (and likely futile) war.

Thus far, Howard Lutnick (Secretary of Commerce) and Lee Zeldin (Head of the EPA) are the only Jews proposed for cabinet-level positions in Trump 2.0. Thankfully, Jared Kushner is noticeably missing from any proposed positions in Trump 2.0.

Also of interest to White advocates, Tom Homan, who is to be in charge of the deportations, is not Jewish and is very committed to mass deportation. Jewish immigration patriot Stephen Miller will be homeland security advisor and deputy chief of staff in Trump 2.o. Thus Jews in line with Trump’s overall agenda are welcome. But the point is that Trump 2.0 will have a much less Jewish look and—most importantly— be much less in sync with the mainstream liberal-left Jewish community on policies of interest to White advocates than the Biden-Harris administration.

This portends well for the future. Trump’s policies, particularly his mass deportation plan, will be extremely contentious and will likely result in massive civil disobedience and violence in the big cities. But media coverage of the disorder will certainly be further indication to Trump voters and to White Americans in general that White America is under siege.

However, the money and the media are in place for a sea change in American political culture in the direction of White interests. Let’s hope it happens