New Focus for the Blog, Update #1

New focus for the blog. Less philosophical and historical for now. I'm going to save that for the writing project. In case you hadn't figured it out, it's essentially a History of the Rise and Fall of the Establishment, from its origins until the present day. Finally I know how it turns out. No need to write about it here. I'd just be diverting energy.

Instead I'm going to focus on something more akin to direct day-by-day reporting. Things are happening so fast. I'm going to chronicle events and tell you about the Trump Movement as it unfolds like a reporter. I have as good an insight into it as anyone else, who is not directly involved. What I don't have in close-up contact, I more than make up for in historical insight.  I think I have proven this, if nothing else, from my posts over the last year and a half.

A week after the election. The fight is raging. A few insights at the moment:

1. Most Trump supporters are still extremely happy about the election results and how Donald Trump has handled himself since then. There was a small rumble about RNC chairman Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff possibly not being the optimal pick, but overall the consensus is that it was brilliant and correct. Part of the reason for this acceptance of Priebus is experience from the Pence VP choice  last summer.

Pence was not universally acclaimed as being the right choice at the time. There were lots of WTF's, but since then, there has grown near universal agreement that Trump knew exactly what he was doing after all, and that it was the perfect choice, one that helped him win the election in no small way. This has buttressed an overall feeling that Trump knows what he is doing with his personnel, and that he should be given the benefit of the doubt, even if it is doesn't seem perfectly obvious at the time. That said, Priebus earned tons of cred by sticking with Trump through Pussygate, and essentially risking it all to stay on the Trump Train. There is a feeling that he will be awesome and shepherding the Trump agenda through Congress and the bureaucracy after January 20.

As far as Trump's choice of Steve Bannon as Chief Strategist goes, everyone is backing him and loves him because he drives liberals crazy. Every Trump supporter knows that they are going to be lumped in the KKK at this point, and they have come to expect it, so there is an attitude of "bring it on," and "you know you're over the target when you are taking flak." There is a sense that Bannon will keep the Trump agenda on track, and keep things from getting "lost in the swamp."

There was also initial concern among some when Trump named several lobbyists, including one from Goldman Sachs and another from Pfizer, as part of his transition team. But there is a realization that in order to drain the swamp, it will be necessary to employ people who know the swamp. The basic concept is "who will they work for?" In the old system of the Establishment, they would have been ambassadors representing outside interests. For example, they essentially bought their way into Obama's administration through large cash donations. Trump didn't take money from them.Huge difference. He owes them no favors, and now they are working for Donald Trump.

The idea among Trump's followers is that Trump is wise aenough to know how to use these people to achieve his agenda, and until proven otherwise, Trump should be trusted to chose the right people, the idea is. It is acknowledged (for example with Pence) that Trump plays the whole game on a higher level that is inscrutable to mere mortals (4D chess), and that whatever doesn't seem to make sense at the time will make sense later. So far, so good, among his followers. He has not let them down yet.

The only huge concern remaining is that, following rumors in the press, John Bolton will become Secretary of State. Bolton is a famous knuckle-cracking neocon from the Bush Administration, and even though he supported Trump in the campaign, he is widely loathed among Trump supporters because of the taint of Bush and Neoconservative warmongering.  His appointment would be seen as perhaps letting the scoundrels back in. As many have pointed out, the only info about this possible pick are rumors, however, and Trump himself has said to ignore such rumors, because they are coming from liars within the media. But until Bolton is officially out, there will remain a sense of uneasiness among his followers. If he is appointed, it would be by far the most challenging name that his supporters would have had to swallow.


2. There is widespread consensus among his followers that although many of the protestors act spontaneously, much of the energy and impetus of the street protestors is coming from George Soros-funded organizations.This is supported by evidence on the street regarding bused-in protestors, and preprinted signs, among things. Soros is now regarded as World Enemy #1, the Kingpin. Much of the meme energy is now directed straight at him as the Dark Lord who must taken down.


3. There is widespread chagrin, but not surprise, that the media is fabricating a fake wave of hate crimes by Trump supporters and correspondingly ignoring real violence being directed at Trump supporters across the country.


4. As of today, there is apparently a purge underway on Twitter of widely-followed alt-right and Trump-supporting accounts. Twitter went after some of the most innocuous ones at first, and many other big names are waiting for the ban hammer to fall on them.  There is a consensus that Twitter is dying anyway, and that this may actually be the catalyst for the alternative platform Gab to take off.


5. There is a small but growing concern that Julian Assange has not actually been seen or verified to be in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since Oct. 17 when his Internet was cut off. This is despite supposed interviews since then, but in them Assange apparently does not reference any events that have happened since then. There is speculation that on the night of Oct. 17, he may have been spirited away and is being tortured. Not every one is on board with this idea (for example Kim Dotcom, as of last week), but the buzz on this took a huge uptick in the last 24 hours with the release of Wikileaks files with crypto file hashes that did not match the ones that pre-released on Oct. 17 as part of the routine dump of hashes (in layman's terms this means that perhaps the files are compromised).  Supposedly Assangee was interviewed by Sweden today, the country that wants to arrest him, but the interview was handled via embassy personell. "Where is Assange?" has suddenly become a question that more people are asking. The swirling speculation has buttressed the idea among many that the remaining Wikileaks files hold things of such horrendous magnitude that they would essentially bring down the United States government (something Assange himself once claimed hinted at).