Many of us are trying to understand why Trump has been doing the things he’s been doing lately – because they seem to be destructive things, as regards the political palatability (and so, viability) of MAGA.

It was weird – and a little appalling – when Trump suddenly sicced the military on Venezuelan speedboats, blowing not just them but also their helpless occupants into oblivion. The justification – drugs – seemed equally weird given the drugs Trump complains about generally come from Mexico, not Venezuela. It also made many of us feel a little sick to watch people bobbing in the water being obliterated. That sort of thing – the execution of helpless people who are no longer capable of shooting back – got people court-martialed once upon a time.

Then Trump sent in the Hut! Hut! Hut! crew to literally kidnap a foreign head of state. Whatever you think about Maduro, he was the president of Venezuela. Where did Trump get the authority to just remove a foreign head of state? And – why? Venezuela has lots of oil, it is said – and that is true. But it’s going to be tough to get that oil – and get it to the United States, as every serious analyst agrees. American companies being reluctant to invest hugely in an iffy foreign country that could easily become a very difficult place to do business in.

Then there’s Greenland. All of a sudden it is a strategic – and existential – necessity for America to annex it. Never mind that there is already an American base there and it’s not 1945 anymore, anyhow. No Lend Lease convoys are heading for Europe from America. And Russian hypersonic missiles are too fast to be stopped by countermeasures installed on Greenland anyhow.

So – again – why?

Most recently, Trump has made public anti-gun utterances after his FBI director made similar utterances. It has understandably alarmed many of Trump’s increasingly uncomfortable Second Amendment-supporting supporters, who thought they were voting for a man (and an administration) that wasn’t gun-grabby. (Yes, I know. Trump has not actually grabbed any guns – yet. But it is reasonable to worry he might grab them going forward, given what he and Patel, the FBI director, have said. Which indicates what they think.)

The above all happened after a man got shot to death in the street in the course and context of what many people see as a purposely inflammatory display of federal goonery. Ten million illegals aren’t going to be rounded up by ICE and deported. It is a logistical improbability – shy of martial law and neighborhood-by-neighborhood sweeps. Which may be coming.

It is not popular, however. Every poll shows Trump has lost the power of the immigration issue he rode back into office. Most Americans were not happy with the open border and wanted something done to close it and something done to deal with the very real problem of the 10 million-plus strange and exotic people who are demographically and so politically threatening to change America forever. They would probably welcome and even cheer cutting off the Free Shit and siccing the FBI on state/local officials who refuse to comply. But they are understandably uneasy about what certainly looks like a metastasizing police state that they fear – also understandably – might wheel around and police them, going forward.

There is also the Epstein Thing – driven off the radar by all of the things just ticked off. But lots of people haven’t forgotten about it and are unhappy about what is clearly an attempt to get them to forget about it.

Now it appears we are n the cusp of a war with Iran that could easily trigger horrendous consequences for Americans, who have no dog in this fight. Israel does. But how – and why – have Israel’s interests become America’s?

It is generally agreed that if the 2026 congressional elections were held right now, Republicans would lose bigly. That is purely speculative, of course – and much can change over the next ten months. But – right now – the thing does not look good.

So, why? What is going on with Trump? There are arguably three main possibilities.

The first is that he’s being ill-advised. This is what many of his defenders said about the inexplicable things he did last time, such as allowing Dr. Fauci to run the country and doing absolutely nothing to prevent what everyone could see was coming when Election Day was turned into Election Months and millions of unvetted absentee ballots were counted – because “COVID.”

More finely, because of the “emergency” declared by Trump that he did not end – when he could have done so long before the 2020 election happened.

Well, has he learned nothing from that? Why did he pick bad advisors this time? And why is he still listening to them? Why did he surround himself with the likes of Hegseth and Miller rather than MacGregor and Ritter?

The second possibility is that he is not right in the head. This is a possibility that edges toward probability when we reflect on his public outbursts, especially as regards not getting the Peace Prize he covets. The man is almost 80 and not in good health (obesity is not good health). It is reasonable to question his mental health at this point, if only on account of his age. People almost 80 are not unlikely to be slipping a little. Everyone knows this. MAGA people were – rightly – very much agitated over the state of “Joe Biden’s” brain.

The third possibility is the one that’s hard to consider. It is that all of this deliberate. That it is literally the plan we were told to trust. Only we were not told the plan is very much different than the one that we were led to believe would put America – and Americans – first.

The actual plan might be to foment chaos, to impose order – a new order. One in which we all had better do as we’re told, because if we do not, those who control this new order will turn off our programmable money and we won’t be able to buy food or gas (or anything else). It could be the birth pangs of the Technate that has been bruited about – quietly – in certain circles, for many years. It would account for the incorporation of Greenland (and soon, Cuba?) into the New Order, a regional hegemony controlled from Tel Aviv via Washington.

Let’s hope not. But hope can be a dangerous narcotic.

Ask anyone who voted for Trump.

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