What is Trump to Us?

An OK first draft of what happened. Trump's Herculean task was to lead America back against its masters in DC and throughout what Codevilla calls the ruling class. As President (and as a candidate before his election) Trump became the Great Exposer and then the Master of Counter-Provocation. His first accomplishment, his lasting accomplishment, is that we now see them for what they are. DC is not an American city. The Chinese have more power there than Americans do.

They have lied through their media and with their own mouths like this before, but never so openly and blatantly and above all shamelessly. They conducted a vast military-level psychological operation against all Americans, left and right, and never as violently as with their handling of the aftermath of the election. Censorship is violence, and they went so far as to censor Trump himself. That's how afraid of him they are.

Trump did not use all of his weapons, the first of which would have been declassification. He saw his presidency not as a civil war, but as a negotiation. Whether this was a mistake or not, it is consistent with his belief that war is more costly than making a deal. That's a great debate that has roots going back to the 19th century. But at the end of his four years we had a set of x-rays of the enemy within that was far more extensive than anything we had before.

By Angelo Codevilla

What Is Trump To Us? › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)