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Trump Really Let His Freak Flag Fly at the Turning Point USA Conference [1]
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Date: 2023-07-17 21:21:00+00:00
Generally speaking, I stopped jumping after the former president*'s campaign rhetoric years ago. It is a very big fish in a very small barrel, and even snarking at it seemed less and less like a job for grown-ups, even a grown-up blogger. However, over the weekend, at the annual gathering of Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Charlie Kirk, who first came to prominence as the face of the Moon in Georges Meliers' La Voyage Dans La Lune in 1902, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago really let his freak flag fly and I'm sure pictures fell off the wall in every beer hall in Munich. This was different from the usual poison. This was a clear statement of pure fascist ambition. Straight, no chaser.
This will be the most important election with your country, your freedom, and your future on the line. We are in trouble. This country is in trouble. The election will decide if your generation inherits a fascist country or a free country, if you will have the rule of tyrants or the rule of law, if Marxist radicals burn our civilization to the ground, which they are looking to do, or young patriots like you propel America to glorious heights greater than ever before....
..As I stand here tonight, I know the young conservative warriors — and you are warriors — of Turning Point will never let this happen. You cannot let this happen. [Cheers and applause.] Every day, you defend our values, and you never yield, and you never will yield to the radical left. That's why you are the ones who are going to take back America. You are the ones who are going to make America great again. [Cheers and applause.] From the earliest days of our republic, every generation has been called to defend America, but people say it not with deep bravado. They say it now because now they really mean it. We are in big trouble. Today, the greatest threat is not from the outside. The greatest threat is the sick, sinister, and evil forces trying to destroy our nation.
Complimentary armbands are available when you leave the arena.
After 50 years of leftist domination of universities, I will take bold action to reclaim our colleges from the communist left. [Cheers and applause.] Anti-American radicals will no longer be given a free hand to dominate our institutions of higher education. Using my leverage — and it is a tremendous leverage, and I used it before very well. You know, we put penalties on them and they would not let conservatives or anybody speak. Big, big penalties. All of a setting, everybody was invited to speak. I don't know if everybody knows that. But it was somewhat artificial. But at least we were getting the word out. Everybody should be able to speak. Using my leverage over college accreditors, we are going to choke off the money to schools that aid the marxist assault on our American heritage and un-western civilization itself. The days — and on western civilization itself. The days of subsidizing Marxist colleges are over.
There is a lot of talk in here about "Western civilization." It has nothing to do with history or scholarship. It's just another way for this guy to say, "white people."
When I get back into the oval office, I will obliterate the deep state. [Applause.] We know all the good ones now. I was not a Washington establishment person. I had to rely on people. We rebuild our military. I will fire all of these corrupt bureaucrats. I know the weak ones in the stupid ones. I know everybody in Washington. I got a phd in learning about the people of Washington. We will create a truth and reconciliation group.
Also starring Stephen Miller as Roland Freisler.
But this is the real stuff right here.
Whenever a broken system tells you you are wrong, the more certain you should be you should keep pushing ahead. They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom. They want to challenge me because I will never let them silence you. They are not coming after me. They are coming after you, and I just happened to be standing in their way.
I am the embodiment of all your grievances. I am you as you are me and we are all together. That's the foundation stone.
Update, 7pm: It ain't just rhetoric, and they aint just playing, either. From The New York Times:
“The president’s plan should be to fundamentally reorient the federal government in a way that hasn’t been done since F.D.R.’s New Deal,” said John McEntee, a former White House personnel chief who began Mr. Trump’s systematic attempt to sweep out officials deemed to be disloyal in 2020 and who is now involved in mapping out the new approach. “Our current executive branch,” Mr. McEntee added, “was conceived of by liberals for the purpose of promulgating liberal policies. There is no way to make the existing structure function in a conservative manner. It’s not enough to get the personnel right. What’s necessary is a complete system overhaul."
Mr. Trump and his advisers are making no secret of their intentions — proclaiming them in rallies and on his campaign website, describing them in white papers and openly discussing them. “What we’re trying to do is identify the pockets of independence and seize them,” said Russell T. Vought, who ran the Office of Management and Budget in the Trump White House and now runs a policy organization, the Center for Renewing America.
More on this instruction manual for building and operating a dictatorship tomorrow.
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