Donald Trump has proven Horton’s Law, that politicians only keep their bad promises, true once again. He was always a New York Democrat billionaire, and he was never going to be a champion of working people or free markets. Trump is a Likudnik, not America First, and always was the former and never the latter. The Democrats were right that Trump was an agent of a foreign government; they just got the wrong government. Trump is an Israeli agent, not a Russian agent.
Trump bombed eight countries last year (Colombia, Iraq, Iran, Mexico, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen), with Secretary of Warmongering Pete Hegseth committing war crimes in Yemen and Venezuela, before finally kidnapping the latter’s leader. So you can deposit Trump’s promises not to get into more “forever wars” and fight the military-industrial complex into the same bank account that you deposited your $5,000 DOGE check and the $2,000 tariff rebate.
As a result of these and other broken promises, the MAGA coalition is enduring an ongoing major break-up as we say goodbye to 2025 and hello to 2026.
But it doesn’t matter. There was only one day when the coalition mattered, and there is only one day when it ever matters. The con only has to work one day every two years, on election day. In between, people can “wake up,” the establishment media industry can restructure and occasionally tell the truth, and it doesn’t matter. Public opinion, unless there are massive revolts and a threat of a violent revolution, never matters except on election day.
Let the cycle of the electoral con begin again.
At least every four years, and usually every two years, there’s a new pageant. A new “independent” reform candidate of the “people” is trotted by the billionaire donors, and typically a whole posse of them run as trial horses in both parties, claiming they’re the one who can sell Change™ best. Trump was only the latest in a long series of fake reform candidates who are politically and financially tied to the establishment billionaires who really run the country; it’s just that he was a better than average salesman on behalf of that crony capitalist fake change.
J.D. Vance, the vice president from Palantir, is likely the next false choice who will bring “change” while buttressing the status quo. Can’t you hear it now? “Oh, look how independent he is! He’s gonna drain the swamp and stop the Deep State for sure in 2028! Lucy won’t pull the football away from Charlie Brown this time!”
Don’t notice that Vance was Ivy educated and had billionaire Palantir founder Peter Thiel as his patron going back to grad school. Or that he was a key part and supporter of the Trump administration that has backed the Deep State to the hilt. One key tell about Vance was that Trump picked him among the long train of loser interventionists he appointed during his two administrations. Electing Vance won’t be significantly different from electing John Bolton or Barack Obama as president.
Or maybe it will be Vivek Ramaswamy who will be anointed. Or Tulsi Gabbard. You might as well put a picture of antiwar Tulsi Gabbard on the side of a milk carton or put out an “amber alert” on her, as her pleas against regime change haven’t been heard from since taking a job in the Trump administration. Or any of an endless list of snake-oil salesmen who will promise change while delivering the same billionaire and Deep State dominance over the American domestic economy and global military affairs.
One sure thing is that no genuinely anti-Deep State presidential candidate, let alone a libertarian, could ever come out of the Democratic Party process. The Democratic Party presidential primary process is completely captive, and has been entirely compromised since at least 2016.
While Thomas Massie has proven it’s still possible to get an honest anti-establishment candidate into Congress occasionally, Congress as a whole is owned by billionaires who prefer legislators defer the legislating to the permanent executive branch bureaucracy. This explains why Congress passes a one-size-fits-all budget written by the executive branch and a handful of congressional leaders annually. And if they don’t pass it on time, the legislators get the penalty of facing a “shutdown” where the government doesn’t really shut down, as they did in 2025.
People point to the 2025 government shutdown as evidence the system isn’t working. But it is working; the system is working exactly according to the plan, by the billionaire donors making the plans.
The current right versus left paradigm is a spectrum without an objective metric, one that primarily measures the biases of the person describing the spectrum. A person describing someone else as right-wing is merely a person who personally identifies with some idea they see as left-wing and disagrees with the right-wing person, while a left-winger is someone who personally identifies with some issue on the right but disagrees with the person he has labeled left-wing. Sure, there are some social issues where the two “wings” actually disagree, but the key stratagem is to keep the left and the right fixated on issues other than economics, the military-industrial complex and foreign policy. And it has worked so well that the United States has trillion dollar deficits and half a dozen or more wars every year.
There’s a tendency in politics today to project what you see as the worst sin onto your enemies without the slightest evidence, which explains why the right says Michele Obama is a man and the left says Tucker Carlson is a Jew-hating Nazi. Independents often say that America is run by pedophiles, something that Washington has tried its best to prove true by the continued cover-up of the Jeffrey Epstein files on behalf of Israel. For libertarians and some conservatives, that worst-of-all-sins means being a socialist.
The right-wing calls the left-wing socialist, even though they’re both economic fascists (or crony capitalists, if you prefer this term). If you look at what real socialism is, the government ownership of the means of production, you realize it’s a completely phantom threat. Even when politicians get a massive electoral mandate for a tiny slice of socialism, as Barack Obama did in 2008 with his “public option” for health care, the billionaires prevented him from getting it done (if he ever really wanted it) and instead Congress increased the government subsidy of health care companies. Obamacare, as it turns out, wasn’t socialism, but was crony capitalism.
It’s corporate subsidies and government contractors that threaten to destroy the economy in America today, not socialism. A solution to America’s problem is not in fighting the phantom of socialism ever-more fiercely, but in learning to oppose the networks of nominally private capitalist government contractors and the flow of taxpayer dollars and gatekeeping regulations to them.
The other threat to creating a real coalition that would break up the crony capitalist (i.e., economic fascist) network that’s impoverishing American working people is racial identitarianism. This threat is personified by Gen Z influencer Nick Fuentes. Fuentes says the problem in America is not so much the attack on free markets by government, which controls 37% of GDP and leverages this control to benefit billionaire cronies. No, he actually opposes genuine free enterprise, even though he tells some important truths about how the federal government is captive to the Israeli lobby for foreign aid.
A key part of Fuentes’ racial identitarianism is the “great replacement” theory of white people becoming a minority in America as a result of immigration by darker-skinned people. And while the proportion of white people in America is and has been shrinking (it’s still nearly 75%), it’s not because innocent blonde women are being conquered by the dusky-skinned hordes of the third world immigrants. Rather, it’s because white Americans are no longer having children as a result of abortion and the birth control pill. White birth rates are lower than blacks and Hispanics, though a bit higher than Asian-Americans and Native American tribesmen.
Nick Fuentes publicly identifies as a Catholic, and eventually either his Catholicism or his racial solidarity will win out. They can’t both remain, as Catholicism (and Christianity generally) is a universalist religion that regards, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28) and “God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.” (Acts 10:34-35) You can’t remain hostile to races other than your own and remain a Christian of any denomination.
Moreover, Catholic Church leaders have been pointing the way of opposing abortion and birth control for decades. Fuentes would accomplish a lot more toward buttressing America’s white population as the majority by getting them back to church than by shutting off immigration; Christians who attend church tend to have larger families than those without religion.
The MAGA coalition breakup was inevitable, and it won’t matter politically unless a genuine rebel alliance of persons opposed to economic fascism emerges. Any genuine change must involve a drastic reduction in military spending, an end to Federal Reserve Bank inflation and dramatic cuts in federal contracts to politically-favored corporations. And even if that rebel alliance does emerge, we can expect another pageant with a flock of fake anti-cronyists to be trotted out in 2026 to head off genuine change in American government.
