The Donald’s Disastrous Fourth Year—Statist Dirigisme Like Never Before, Part 1

We are now approaching the fourth anniversary of Donald Trump’s wholesale assault on the principles of constitutional government, medical freedom, personal liberty, free market prosperity and fiscal and monetary sobriety. All of those assaults, of course, transpired in conjunction with the sheer madness of what amounted to his regime of Covid dirigisme.

The resultant sweeping lockdowns of commerce, schools, churches and every other venue of social interactions—festooned by a $11 trillion spending and money-printing bacchanalia—were reckless beyond all measure. Even the wild-eyed dreams of socialist provocateurs from days gone by had never envisioned this level of statist convulsion.

The irony is that this week Donald Trump has clinched the renomination of the Republican Party for President. That is to say, the Grand Old Party has gotten so wasted on the neocon project of Global Hegemony, culture wars that are not even the Federal government’s business, playing the RINO game of second chair in the Washington government party and dutifully shilling for Wall Street and corporate crony capitalists that it is actually embracing the very worst enemy of old-time Republicanism (e.g. Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater) to ever arrive on the nation’s political stage.

So it is well to recall the history of March 2020 and its aftermath. In all its lurid detail. If nothing else, the telling should remind true economic conservatives, constitutionalists and libertarians that the Trumpified GOP is now their mortal enemy. Their mission in this fraught election season, therefore, is to help midwife the GOP’s demise—so that from the ashes of a hung Electoral College next winter a citizen’s party might coalesce around the candidacy of a righteous exile from the Dem wing of the UniParty, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The fact is, the Donald’s fourth year in the Oval Office was an epic disaster. The US economy literally collapsed after February 2020, but there is no way that Donald Trump gets a free hall pass for the Washington-instigated economic mayhem that transpired.

Trump’s original sin was his whole-hearted embrace from the bully pulpit on March 16th of Dr. Fauci’s “15 days to flatten the curve” scheme, which was actually never about two weeks of breathing room for purportedly overflowing hospitals. It is now evident that Fauci’s deputy came back from China in February 2020 singing the praises of its brutal lockdowns in Wuhan as a new form of nonpharmaceutical public health intervention, meaning that Trump’s Covid policy was gestated in the worst totalitarian hatchery now operative on the entire planet.