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Published: 11 November 2024

Trump’s Mandate of Heaven

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The notion of a “Mandate of Heaven” stems from the Chinese philosophical principle dating back to the Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046–256 BC). According to this ancient doctrine, Heaven imparts this mandate on a virtuous ruler. Although the understanding related specifically to imperial rule and competing dynasties, it contains within its precepts key components that can be applicable to democratic legitimation fundamentals.

Among the core elements of the Mandate of Heaven is the belief that the leader must secure prosperity, peace, and order. As in democratic rule, the Mandate is not absolute but conditional. If chaos, injustice, or misery arises, the leader should be replaced (the Right of Revolution is derived from here). The notion of the transfer of power is inherent in the Mandate of Heaven. When imagined in a democratic ethos, the moral legitimacy this ancient Chinese tradition clings on to binds popular expectations with results.

Donald J. Trump, the Republican Party, and the MAGA agenda won a historic landslide in the recent 2024 election. The sui generis American model rendered the former president and now, also, president-elect, winner of 312 electoral votes versus the Democratic Party’s contender’s 226. Additionally, and oddly for a Republican, Trump won the popular vote receiving about 75 million ballots in his favor. With this massive victory came hefty coattails for the Republican Party as it gained a comfortable majority in the Senate and is poised to control the House as well.

The importance in understanding the relevancy of the MAGA platform and the ideological realignment that is unfolding in American politics and the electorate realm, is not just what it stands for. MAGA’s “America First” premise is clear: a national economic, social, and migratory prioritization; the primacy of liberty; upholding the rule of law and the Constitution; securing peace; and promoting prosperity. These underlying guiding principles place the Trumpian Republican agenda squarely against domestic cultural socialism, globalism, and elitist tyranny.

Trump and Republicans have received a Mandate of Heaven understood in a 21^st century democratic governance context. To deliver the virtuous governance that the American people expect from the 47^th president, Trump must boldly complete five fundamental tasks. If he achieves this mission, the American Republic will be saved, Western civilization bolstered, basic liberties rekindled, and the normalcy of values that built the West restored. Here are the things Trump must do.

1 Reverse Cultural Marxism

The cultural hegemony that Neo-Marxists precepts such as Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology, Critical Queer Theory, and more recently, Critical Post-Colonial Theory have enjoyed since Obama took over the Democratic Party and launched his stealth socialist march through the institutions, must be rolled back comprehensively. The power of the federal government is capable of this task. All government institutions, public lower educational centers entities that receive federal funds including servicing Non-Governmental Organizations must stop proselytizing cultural Marxism and carrying out its policies. The promotion of these subversive liberticidal doctrines must be taxpayer money defunded and prohibited by law. Policies such as men present in women’s sports, bathrooms, and jails, has nothing to do with civil rights and everything to do with Marxist Gender Ideology.

The private sector with the weight of the main corporate funds investors, Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street (among others) has pushed the mentioned modern Marxist dogmas on the workplace. This can and must stop. Private entities cannot discriminate based on a broad range of things such as race, sex, religion, national origin, etc. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), in practice, is all about censoring, inequality, discrimination, and alienating workers. Conditioning access to capital and financing on the implementation of cultural socialist policies must be outlawed. Investors in mutual and equity funds, both individuals and institutional, should not have to be forced to have their money go to political causes. Investing should not be politicized.

2 Dismantle the Deep State

The administrative (deep) state, that conglomerate of unelected officials and bureaucrats that control government agencies and servicing private auxiliaries and exercise enormous power must be lustrated. From the Latin word lustratio, its idea of purifying has been the basis for the de-Nazification in Nazi Germany and the de-Communization policies of some former socialist Eastern European countries of ridding former regime personnel from relevant positions of power. While the American federal system has presented challenges to the authoritarian pursuits by the radical left, key agencies and departments have been compromised.

The twelve years of globalist, Fabian stewardship of power in American politics has taken a toll on civil liberties, the rule of law, and the competitive free enterprise system. Obama’s eight years and Biden four (really Obama’s third term) served to inundate key institutions with like-minded woke ideologues and practitioners. The evils and lawlessness of the Obamian deep state is well documented. Falsifying documents for purposes of domestic espionage, flagrant censorship, election interference, and the utilization of the judicial system to persecute and prosecute the opposition, have become staples of political activity by the combined Obama-Biden regimes.

Trump must dislodge the leadership of the FBI, CIA, DHS, IRS, State Department, DOJ, EPA, DOD, and all their supportive intelligence and quasi-intelligence apparatus. This shadow unelected government will continue to conspire to overthrow Trump’s legitimate presidency. This must be carried out from day one. Acts where the law was broken, and civil rights impacted, should be meticulously investigated and justice rendered. The shameful incarceration of the January 6 (J6) Capitol Building breachers, where communist-style long-term sentences were unjustly handed down, should be amnestied. If applicable, the J6 defendants should be indemnified, just like many of the Black Live Matters and Antifa 2020 rioters were.   

3 Permanently Secure Free Speech

The censorship carried out by the Obama-Biden regimes have reached unimaginable levels, by American standards. This practice is consistent with Neo-Marxist praxis drawing from the texts of Antonio Gramsci, the Frankfurt School’s Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Erich Fromm, and, specially, Herbert Marcuse. A host of newer generation Marxists have carried out the delusional legacy of these cultural communists. Labels of “hate speech,” “disinformation,” “misinformation,” and “safe spaces,” have been employed to deprive Americans of their constitutional right to speak freely. Any European or other Western country that adapts this Fabian globalist censorship scheme should lose U.S. funding and other economic derivatives. If our values are not shared, they should not access U.S. dollars.

Section 230 must be completely reformulated. Social media and Big Tech emporiums cannot be protected from lawsuits. They editorialize and practice political advocacy. A solution is the common carrier principle. Here, strict neutrality is required, and opinion is not punished. The notion that non-vulgar speech and ideas can “offend” someone enough to use state power to censor is Orwellian.

4 Confront Enemies of Freedom

Trump must exercise Ronald Reagan’s policy of rolling back non-democratic regimes. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and communist Cuba lead the list of hostile dictatorships which pose a national security threat to the U.S. Drug trafficking, for example, may use the Mexican cartels as mailmen, but this could not happen without the roles that China, Cuba, and the island’s proxies in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Mexico, play.

The American government has many tools that it can employ. Thinking outside the box and a firm commitment to produce regime change or debilitation with enemy governments must be a cornerstone of Trump’s foreign policy objectives. Another prominent U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt, noted the importance of “speaking softly but carrying a big stick.” The new occupant of the White House would be well advised to follow this course.

5 Fortify the Political Realignment

Trump and the Republicans won big with the help of Democrats that were fed up with left-wing lunacy. This was reflected by those that voted, as well as those who chose not to vote. A traditional Democratic voter who did cast a ballot for Kamala, really voted tacitly for Trump. Once there were “Reagan Democrats.” Now there are Trump Democrats. This must be taken advantage of.

American share a love of freedom, country, opportunity, equality under the law, family, the free enterprise system, and God. There should be no doubt that divine intervention was a big part of the historic 2024 election. Perhaps the horrible four years of the Biden-Obama regime was the recipe needed to grant those defending Western civilization and values a mandate. It certainly seems that way. Trump, censored, betrayed, persecuted, and shot at, is also a different man. This time, the man will have the tools and experience needed for the massive job ahead. One thing is for sure. Trump is praying to God, and the Lord has been listening.

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Published: 01 November 2024

Time to Stop the Authoritarian Shift and Keep the U.S. Free

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The 2024 presidential election will bear witness to one of two things. The deepening of the systemic transformation that has been going on since Barack Obama’s ascension to power in 2009. This course is intellectually underpinned by modern Marxist premises and has been using Fabian socialist means for its implementation. To carry through policies, the Obama model, has been novel in its use of alternate mechanisms for systemic change promotion. Besides the typical executive and legislative venues available to a president and party leader, Obama has redefined the civil service sector to suit his ideological objectives by placing committed and like-minded individuals to head these departments and opening new agencies that have been given broad police powers.

It is a shadow government, an administrative state (also known as the Deep State). This myriad of unelected state bureaucratic entities includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of State (DOS), and many of their auxiliary agencies. The mentioned undemocratic governing leviathan has coopted private actors such as woke business and financing emporiums, corporate and social media outlets, and Big Tech (Google, Microsoft, etc.). Together, they enjoy effective power that can match that of any totalitarian regime. This course is integrated with globalist movements and international governing bodies that aim to erase any notion of national sovereignty.

The other alternative represents the reversal of this postmodern global socialist revolution. This crusade to defend Western civilization and its values, includes the principle of consensual government, basic liberties, the rule of law, and a notion of ordered progress that is considerate of time-tested truths and ethics. By now, it should be clear which candidate and party stand for these contrarian positions. Kamala Harris and today’s Obamian Democratic Party is pushing the former agenda. Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party is taking up the sword for the latter. 

 

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Published: 30 September 2024

José Martí Was Never a Communist (Excerpt)

Marxism weighs more on positive liberty and positive law. As such, the communist project, with its dependence on structural repression to achieve its ends, could be welcomed by Lenin, Mao, or Castro, but not by Martí or Lincoln.

(Excerpt from my speech at the Academy of Cuban History in Exile, AHCE)^[e]

For sixty-four years after being killed in battle, the rightly deserved reverence for Cuba’s national hero, José Martí, was a matter of hallowed institutional respect among Cubans. During the republican era (1902–1958), no political party, movement, or public figure attempted to ideologically delineate the Cuban Apostle’s politics to fit partisan or worldview contentions. There was a consensus on what Martí believed in and what he rejected. A free and independent Cuba where its people could live in dignity, in a self-governing open society and prosper, both, spiritually and materially, was the accepted understanding of Martí’s paradigm. A tyrannical regime was his antithesis. 

The communist takeover of the island, using state and dictatorial power, initiated an aggressive campaign to deconstruct Martí. The vast written testimony that Cuba’s premier figure laid out, unequivocally places Martí outside the prism of a Marxist or socialist thinker and activist.^[1] Castro-Communism, nonetheless, has been barefacedly relentless in its pursuit to create a false characterization of the top-notch Cuban patriot and intellectual to accommodate its political objectives, social domestication endeavors, and entrench its systemic program. The task of familiarizing Cubans who have been raised in Marxist-Leninist captivity and subjected to the ideologically altered version of Martí with the real one should not be construed as a draconian undertaking. A person needs only to reference the ample empirical written testimony to conclude that the Apostle of Cuba’s independence was, undoubtedly, not only not a communist, but, in fact, a convinced anticommunist. Letting Martí speak for himself provides clarity for those in earnest doubt.

 

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Published: 31 August 2024

What Trump Must Do to Win in 2024

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Joe Biden’s ouster from the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate slot has invigorated the American Left. The most elated constitute the bulk of the establishment media, which has officially, for the last decade and a half, traded its journalism credentials for political and ideological activism. The other group of enthusiasts is the core institutions of the non-elected administrative state, as well as the entrenched social media and cyber systems' oligarchy. Some have labeled this powerful extension of today’s Democratic Party as a component of the Deep State and the Censorship Industrial Complex. Donald Trump is not competing against Kamala Harris. The Republican candidate and former president are challenging a well-organized and unscrupulous system.

When Barack Obama ushered in the vague and simplistically seeming slogans of “hope” and “change”, what he was referring to was a Marxist-driven soft revolution that was to be carried out in the cultural realm. Drawing from Gramsci, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Foucault, and his ideological Harvard mentor, Derrick Bell (the father of Critical Justice and Critical Race Theories), Obama unleashed cultural socialism with its identity politics stratagem understanding that law, norms, media, education, and government all draw from culture to build their institutions. This is a familiar enemy that most of the democratic West is fighting. Its global purpose is the same as it was in Marx’s day, allowing for pragmatic adjustments in ideology and implementation. The system is a stealth version of communism.

If Harris is the face representing this onslaught on democracy, Donald Trump, for all his shortcomings and imperfections, is the only option challenging this authoritarian threat. If he is to be successful, Trump and the Republican Party must adhere to the rules of engagement that are being waged against him and the American Republic. To miscalculate or underestimate the Left’s maneuvers and war plans in the 2024 election would be detrimental to Trump’s victory. Here are two essential steps that Republicans must follow.

This is the Freedom Crusade. 

The Trump team can learn from President Javier Milei’s successful campaign in Argentina last November. This should not be too difficult for the Republican candidate to do. Both are nonconventional politicians who often speak unwisely and perilously off the cuff. South America’s MAGA (Make Argentina Great Again) movement was able to unseat a socialist Sao Paulo Forum government with similar goals as America’s Democratic Party. Milei’s electoral strategy was to elevate popular consciousness of the importance of freedom and the dangers of communism, and he declared a conviction to stand up for Western civilization and confront globalized Neo-Marxism.

Trump must effectively communicate to the American people, like Milei did to the Argentinians, that his opponent is merely the figurehead of a greater evil. This should also not be difficult to do. Harris is a far-left, mediocre candidate who is irrefutably linked with failed socialist policies and Marxist identity politics fanaticism. Gender Ideology and Critical Race Theory, two modern-day Marxist ideological adaptations, have no greater supporter than Harris. Two-thirds of Americans reject Gender Ideology’s state-imposed policies on education, public facilities, government, and athletic competition. Trump must intelligently and respectfully illustrate this point. To illustrate this point in simple terms, let us consider health insurance coverage mandates.

Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act (ACA), overwhelmingly defended by Democrats including Biden and Harris, makes it illegal for a private insurance company to refuse to cover transgenderism’s operations. However, on the issue of covering expenses for nuclear families that seek to have children but have difficulties, procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVA), are not automatically covered, as per the ACA. Trump has announced that he would support public funding or insurance mandates on coverage to help families by potentially assisting women to achieve pregnancy. The worldviews that separate both presidential candidates are universes apart. Republicans must not let Harris clothe herself in moderation.

MAGA Must Broaden its Coalition.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., part of an iconic American family of Democratic politicians, has openly endorsed Trump as the lessor of two evils. This does not mean that he is only tepidly supporting the Republican candidate. Kennedy has made a scorching and accurate description of the radical nature of the institution that today calls itself the Democratic Party. Foremost in his warning is the grave threat that free speech and liberty in general are facing from the Harris-Obama-Biden ticket. Republicans must prioritize drawing all the disaffected Democratic voters that feel betrayed by their party. Ronald Reagan, it must be remembered, was once a Democrat.

Working-class families of all races, ethnicities, and religions must be sought and incorporated under the MAGA umbrella. The Biden-Harris border immigration anarchy has hurt all Americans. However, as a minority group, it has hit black Americans and Hispanics disproportionately. The social spending that has been afforded to illegal immigrants has come as a detriment to the mentioned group of Americans. Republicans must go out of their way to bring blacks and Hispanics to the MAGA tent. Both groups being socially conservative and akin to religiosity, the Republican Party would be a natural for them.

Jews should be offended by the Democratic Party’s support for Islamism. It has been, not only, the emotional siding with the genocidal calls for Israel’s elimination by Islamist-Marxist groups. The support that Iran, the overseer and financier of the October 7 invasion, has received from Obama and then Biden-Harris has enabled Islamism’s attacks on Israel and the West. The unprecedented peace that the turbulent Middle East lived through under Trump’s four-year presidential watch was not a coincidence. It was the causal effect that reflected a successful foreign policy strategy.

Women have been under attack by the incursion of men (who claim to be women) into ladies’ sports, bathrooms, prisons, and public spaces. This has been a direct result of policies that follow Marxist dogma and have been implemented by Democrats. Harris and Tim Walz, her vice presidential partner, are true believers in the cult of transgenderism. For the Democratic ticket, trans rights are more important than women’s rights. Trump must reach out to the female population. This is where Republicans are most vulnerable.

The issue of abortion, like identity group politics, has been a tool that the Left has seized upon. Lie after shameless lie, Democrats speak as though abortion has been made illegal across the country. This is not the case. Each state, according to the whims of its citizens, has the power to craft the legal timeframe for the ending of a fetus’s life. Without going deep into the moral aspects of whether a woman is entitled to do with her body what she wishes, including ending another human life, upholding facts should be something Republicans must harness. Roe v. Wade is dead. But women can still get an abortion.

After addressing the above-mentioned campaign routes, the Republican Party must be ready and able to defend the integrity of the 2024 elections. A lawyer at the service of the GOP must be present at every single precinct, in every relevant swing state polling center. Early voting, absentee ballots, and mail-in voting are here to stay, for the most part. Republicans must capitalize on these initiatives and use them to the GOP’s advantage. Get-out-the-vote efforts should be amplified. Leaving the option to vote exclusively on election day could hand the Democrats the victory. Republicans must learn from the Democrats’ playbook. Not on morals, virtues, or policies. Lincoln’s party must imitate their power schemes, cunning ability to use the courts in conservative jurisdictions and break the wall of traditional Democratic voters. This election is far too important.    

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