I’m looking for Donald Trump. The one I voted for three times.

I knew he wasn’t perfect, and wouldn’t be anywhere near close to following the Constitution. No president is, even those we admire most, like Washington, Jefferson and Madison. We all have to “pick our poison” when we vote. I was pleasantly surprised by his first term. I defended him when they stole the election from him in 2020, and when they put him through lawfare for four years. The Democrats have proven that they are the party of death. Voting for Trump was a no brainer.

I have known that the Deep State existed since I read None Dare Call It Treason and None Dare Call It Conspiracy decades ago. I knew that the John Birch Society and Joseph McCarthy were demonized because they were too close to the truth. The Deep State is much, much more evil than most people realize.

Aside from murdering the Kennedys, they cleverly compromised the youngest one, Teddy, into being their obedient servant. They completely control Alaska, they stole the GOP nomination from Ron Paul. Trump knows all this by now, and the four years of horrendous suffering he has had to undergo, and the close calls with death, has made him a lot more truculent than before.

I don’t blame him for putting his enemies under the microscope, and the Republican congress must expose the Deep State and globalists while they possess a majority, for the sake of all Americans. Calling it “Partisanship!” rings hollow, considering what the Democrats were doing.

But Trump is selling out his own coalition with his war-making. The Left has discovered that the Zionist Lobby controls American politics, and it is the one thing that might unite them with the authentic patriots on the Right. The Left has already forfeited the Left-Right coalition that opposed Big Pharma, with their Covid hypocrisies, and they have completely sold their souls over forced vaxes. “My body, my choice” only applied to killing babies for them.

But many on the Right have their own blind spot. It is the Jerry Falwell/Scofield Bible crowd, that would pander to the Zionist Lobby, as if that alone would save America. That is about as Pharisaic as I can imagine: the idea that God is more interested in form, than He is in hearts.

Trump is a New Yorker and New Yorkers have always been pro-Zionism. He has yet to discover that those times are over. His denunciation of Marjorie Taylor Green, Thomas Massie, Tucker Carlson and Rand Paul demonstrates that he really does not understand basic limited government principles. He is throwing all that out for the sake of marrying us to the corrupt and murderous Israeli State.

And now we have Venezuela. It is as absurd a militaristic venture as we could conjure. They have been a communist government for a long time. We haven’t invaded Cuba, which is a lot closer and potentially more dangerous. The so-called “War on Drugs” is a shopworn, useless program, pretty much like LBJ’s “War on Poverty”.

Give it up, Donald. We voted for you to keep us OUT of wars, and all of yours have been, of course, undeclared. You’ve got bi-partisan company: Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I & II, Clinton, Obama and Biden. Venezuela’s contribution to America’s drug problem is nothing compared to Mexico, and they are a lot closer. But that would be a very costly and impossible war to wage, and you wouldn’t get the votes in Congress. We were unjust in invading Mexico in 1846. Maybe not in 1916, but that went nowhere into a wild goose chase.

Venezuela is a softer target, but the War on Drugs cannot be won by military action.

No, it must be done by dealing with the problem that creates the market for drugs, meaning our own feckless and indifferent citizenry. It crosses all economic and racial classes. Marijuana, cocaine, opioids, heroin, all damage our health, our heads and our spirits.

The problem of fatherless families, drugs, sex and self-gratification will never be cured by government. Blasting drug boats and napalm-bombing poppy plantations won’t end it. It will be ended when the market dries up. And even benign government actions, like anti-drug and STD posters and leaflets, school curriculums and programs, will do nothing but make people feel good, without solving the problem. It cannot change those “Hearts and Minds of the people.”

No, that belongs to religion. And all religions tell us that 1) there is a supernatural world, 2) we are all going to die, 3) there is a Natural Law, 4) we will be called to account, 5) there is hope for every individual.

Once the government supported religions with stamps that said, “Pray for Peace”, commercials that said, “The Family that prays together, stays together,” and “Worship together this week”. Presidents called for a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, something that the people of Nineveh discovered actually works. That is about all it can do. Hand off the ball and let religion run with it.

There is an incredible thing about repentance. Individuals can begin it any time, and it works. But for a whole society to repent, it needs a leader, and a humble one. I did not expect Trump to be humble. But if he repented, it would set the table for us all, just as his denunciation of abortion, transgender surgeries and defense of women’s sports has already done, and world wide.

It would show that the best thing government can do is to turn some things over to God.

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