The Spy Who Loved Us

 Indeed Donald Trump is the greatest spy in world history, a spy for us, the common people of America, among the Elite class who engineered a takeover of the country, and the world, in the decades following the Second World War. 

He took advantage of their greatest weakness---the belief among them, in the Age of Pop Culture, that the most important thing in life, that one should strive for above all other things, is fame, and specifically to be loved and embraced by the Elite themselves. To the Establishment, and to all those who have bought into their world of Pop Culture, to be deprived of this is like being deprived of oxygen.

My speculation---and this just speculation---is that years ago, probably by the 1960s, he noticed that something had gone horribly wrong with America after the war, that the country had been taken over by a shadow government. He noticed that individuals who challenged this order either were cast into ridicule and obscurity, or they were disposed of by some method. 

He came up with a plan---to make himself attractive to the Elite, the Establishment, and Pop Culture. It required several things. First he would have to be his own man completely. He would to build his wealth by his own bootstraps. Not only would this make him immune from certain temptations of wealth, but by becoming wealthy, he knew the Elite Establishment would seek him out. They would come to him begging to be a part of his circle.

Secondly, he would need to become a buffoon in his public persona. He noticed that if you are a freak, the media loves covering you. So he became a buffoon and a freak, including adopting a bizarre hair style, which is the hallmark of many offbeat characters that the media ridicules. Certainly he is ruthless in business, and not everyone who interacts with him in that world has good things to say about him. He has a certain vulgarity in his persona that is probably reflective of his character. He does everything I say that I wouldn't do, if I were him. Yet I trust him. He has earned my trust. Having adopted this posture about him, I am rarely surprised by anything. I have great peace. Can you say the same?

To most people, the ridicule that this would entail would be too much to bear. Most of us care deeply what others say and think about us. We could not not pull this off. Donald Trump could pull this off because he is incredibly egoless, on a level that few of us can understand. He simply doesn't care about his reputation, so long as he can do what he needs to do.

Thirdly--and this would be perhaps the hardest part of all for most of the rest of us---he was able to move in the corrupt circles of the Elite without becoming one of them. Famously he does not drink alcohol. Yet one would think he was a drunkard. He was brought into parties and secret circles, yet he did not participate. No one suspected that he was not really one of the corrupt ones, because of the infamy he cultivated about himself. Yet most of that infamy disappears if one looks closely at it. For example, it is certainly true that he slept with Marla Maples while still legally married to Ivana. 

Yet according to what he has said in interviews, they were legally separated and no longer considered themselves married. The rumors of betrayal were made up by Ivana's lawyers for leverage in the divorce trial. He married Marla Maples and might still be married to her, but she cheated on him. Every other lurid accusation against him, including all the ones about philandering, have never been substantiated. He pays off women, to be sure, but one can see that he has welcomed this reputation---or least did so in the past---to cultivate the bad boy reputation that has served him so well.

Part of his strategy is that he has been on the good side of the law throughout his entire life. He has probably been a cooperating witness and spy for federal and state law enforcement throughout his professional career. This is why no investigation of him ever turns up anything, and why nothing can even be reported. It is because wherever you dig about him, you find that he has immunity because he was working with the Feds already. If it were otherwise, then his opponents would have buried him by now.

I have come to believe that Donald Trump is probably the straightest of straight arrows. Looking at his life, I feel ashamed that I ever believed that I should be anything other that straight down the line. I hate that I fell victim to the belief that playing it straight is a waste of time in a world of corruption. If I could relive my life, I would play it as straight as he did, or at least try to. I wonder if I could move among the circles of beautiful women as he did without succumbing to the temptation. Probably not. Yet somehow he probably did. 

The closest Pop Culture image to Donald Trump is the one he has confessed to being, to a small boy who once asked him, in an offhand manner. He is Batman. The key to understanding Batman is that Bruce Wayne is the persona. Batman in the bat suit is the real identity.

He is hyper-intelligent, far more than I am. He has given me permission to let myself off the hook, for not living up to what I could have been. All that time I was failing, he was out there, succeeding in the most uncompromising way, doing the work of all the rest of us who failed the nation. 

As part of his life strategy, he realized he had to become President. He knew decades ago that if he came in as a lone reformer, he would destroyed, as others had been. He had to build an entire intelligence operation, better than the intelligent agencies of the Establishment. He biggest adversaries have said that he is always one step ahead of them. as if he knows exactly what they are going to do, before they do it.

In a world of lies and shadows in our culture, is the master of deception---not only his persona, which is, in some sense, the real him, yet an exaggerated part of him that he uses for great effect. Even more than his persona, he leads his enemies on wild goose character of his own making, leading them around by the nose. He know that will snatch any opportunity to destroy him, in a rapid frenzy, and this makes them weak. He knows they are eager to believe anything about him, so he creates the negative information. He mastered the culture of leaks by being the source of his own leaks. He is on record saying as much, and yet knows that the media will never understand this obvious truth, because they have blinded themselves with their pride.

Ironically, the song that he uses to end all of his rallies, before he departs is from 1978 (the last year before the Era of Fear began). He has slowly begun to dance along to the song, with small motions that tease one wanting more, but with looser movements each time, revealing more spontaneity with each passing day leading up to election day. The song is one of the most beloved songs ever recorded, and has begun a wedding hymn within our secular culture.. The video of the song show the happy balance of racial identities that we believed was possible before the Era of Fear.

I realized the other day, the song contains a line that is as fresh as anything ever played on the radio or downloaded over the Internet, put your pride on the shelf.

Why has he done all of it, putting up with every form of slander and innuendo, and more ridicule than any human being could bear? Because he loves America.  He loves America more than even I do, and I really love America. He loves us---the American people---all of us, of all races and identities, even those who in their delusion and mental illness have come to hate him. He is our protector. He fights for us and he attacks the people who would destroy this country. He has put it all on the line for us.

The love that he has for the country is all coming out back for him, in the unbelievable torrent of love for him. My GF is still stunned recalling the moment at his rally in North Carolina in September, when the crowd spontaneously began chanting the words that have become a staple at his rallies: "We love you! We love you!" The first time it happened, one could see that it caught him off guard and nearly brought him to tears. He now makes fun of his tears whenever the crowd now chants it.

We are at a moment where everything about the country is in the balance. We could lose the whole thing. We almost did. Had there not been a Donald Trump, we would have lost it by now. There would be no hope.

Instead we get another chance. We are a fallen nation to be sure, and have lost our way. It all came down to one man who stood between America and the forces that would destroy it. The fact that God Almighty gifted us with this one individual, when we barely deserved it, is a manifestation of divine mercy beyond my comprehension. We might never had been gifted with him except that his closest confident and trusted adviser, his biggest secret asset, his faithful wife Melania, told him at the right moment "they are ready for you now," and he listened to her.

We cannot blow this chance. We might not get another one. Among other things, Trump is probably the last great political figure in our country who will have come to maturity in the Seventies, when we were still an analog culture, before we dove into the headlong simulacra of the digital universe. This gives him a grounded earthiness, chaotic by organic, that will disappear with his generation, at least as the norm. We must take advantage of this last chance.

I think we will be ok. It is perhaps the one thing I disagree with Donald Trump about, when it comes to America. He has said he is the only thing standing between America and the forces that would destroy it, and yes that was true.  But now it's different. There are a hundred million of us now. He has made us all brave again. We will never cower again, and swallow the lies.

Yet I will always shudder with fear of God, thinking of what might have happened to us without Donald Trump coming along when he did. One day we will have to go on without him. By that day I think we will be able to do so. Four years from now the country will be so different. We will know what we could have been, all along, if he hadn't been held back by the shadow forces. We're going to learn what Trump means when he says, "I caught them all." He never lies about this stuff.  When we learn the truth, we will be ready for it.

No one will want to go back, even those who don't yet love him.

As I write this, Trump just ended his rally in Scranton, his last in Pennsylvania of the campaign.  Scranton is Biden's hometown. By holding a rally there today Trump cut off any chance for Biden to capitalize on Scranton energy. He has taken all the important spots on the game board. 

Tomorrow is election day. He just did four full uninterrupted seconds of dancing, pumping his arms in time for the music. 

*much of these insights I actually owe to Thomas Wictor.