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| This Israeli government billboard appeared in Tel Aviv after Trump's presidential victory in 2024 |
A week ago the Republicans got one Hell of a beating in the midterm elections across the Pond. Immediately, commentators looked to Trump's war on Iran (or rather Netanyahu's war that Trump dragged America into) and the spiralling inflation it has created in America and across the globe. Libertarian comic Dave Smith called it before a single vote had been cast. Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored on election night, he told the host the following.
"Donald Trump in 2024 pulled off the greatest comeback in American political history, from where he was after January 6 to coming all the way back - sweeping every swing state, winning the popular vote for the first time, winning the culture in America, the youth, UFC fighters were doing his dance, record numbers with Latino voters, record numbers with young people for Republicans - an overwhelming political comeback that could not have been predicted or really won't be appreciated for decades to come. And here we are two years later with the entire thing squandered, all for a war on behalf of a foreign country."
Like Dave and countless others across America and the Western world, we were enthusiastic supporters of Trump's programme. Then he began to turn on one of his key election pledges - no foreign wars on his watch. First came the bombing of Iran's nuclear programme, then the audacious raid on Venezuela, coupled with repeated threats against the sovereignty of the Danish territory of Greenland. Then, in February of this year, came his biggest downfall - the US-Israeli war on Iran.
The war was a catastrophic failure that did not achieve any conceivable objectives. The Mullahs remain in place nine months later and every ordinary citizen across America and the West is poorer. With voters facing rising bills, the only commentators pretending that the midterms could be anything other than disastrous for Trump's party appeared to be conservatives like Mark Levin, Laura Loomer and Ben Shapiro. They all share one thing in common - they are loyal to Israel first and America second.
Levin told his podcast prior to the election: "The vast majority of us are totally unaffected by the Iran War". It was an obnoxious sneering elitist remark from a man whose net worth is reportedly $50million. Of course he and his rich pals are unaffected, but every single ordinary American is very much affected by events in the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, on election night, Dave Smith wasn't finished. He continued:
"Donald Trump destroyed his presidency by covering up the Epstein scandal and launching a war of choice on behalf of Netanyahu. And now, after the years of woke insanity, open borders policy, Covid insanity and all the effort that it took to roll that back and be a part of this new Trump movement - all squandered for a war for nothing".
A nail on the head, there's not much more we could possibly add to that. Trump took what could have been the greatest presidency in living memory and demolished it for reasons unknown that will be speculated about for years to come. We firnly believe that he would have won the midterms if he had stuck to domestic policy and put America first. What we witnessed in Trump's second presidency is a massive wasted opportunity that will surely have dented confidence and trust in any future Republican hope. Sorry, JD.
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| Our emoji poll on election day did not garner a massive response, with opinion understandably split. 59 per cent said Republicans did NOT deserve a kicking. A kicking they got. |
