The Swamp Dweller Versus The Caesarist, Part 1

A careerist Washington Swamp Dweller versus a caesarist megalomaniac. That’s a condign punishment that even the relentlessly inobservant American public does not deserve.

Yet here we are. The leadership of the primary Government Party (Dems) is so fractured and weak that it could not even send a senile old warhorse, who has fed for 51 years at the public trough, out to pasture. And now the secondary Government Party (GOP) has been so bamboozled by a loud-mouth hell-raiser on political horseback that it’s fixing to renominate a man for President who should not be allowed within a country mile of the Oval Office.

Needless to say, there is no need to recount Joe Biden’s destructive five-decade maraud in the Imperial City. Aside from his discombobulated withdrawal from Afghanistan, we can’t recall even one significant issue when he was on the side of liberty, peace, constitutional government and capitalist prosperity. And that’s to say nothing of the plunder of political spoils that he and his larcenous family have apparently carried on for decades.

As it happened, his parting line at Tuesday’s campaign announcement should have been a clarion call to Republicans: “let’s finish the job”.

We mean, of course, finish the job of repudiating and dismantling that statist monuments to the Warfare State abroad and Welfare State at home that Biden has spent a lifetime erecting. But the very last person capable of even starting that crucial job among the dozen or more GOP hopefuls is surely Donald J. Trump.

Indeed, as we have previously documented, Donald Trump is not an economic conservative or anti-statist in any way, shape or form. On everything that matters for prosperity and liberty—-fiscal rectitude, sound money, free markets and small govenrment—he’s on the wrong side of the policy fence.

So to repeat: The Donald is simply an opportunistic, self-promoting demagogue who chanced to stumble upon the illegal alien menace theme (murders and rapists) on his way down the escalator to the announcement of his presidential candidacy in June of 2015, which theme he then paired with his life-long adherence to a primitive form of trade protectionism.