06-30-2022, 08:11 AM
Given what we now know about how dirty the Deep State really is, couldn't it be possible that both Trump and Paul are correct, just coming at the problem from different angles? Ron Paul made a heroic, lifelong attempt at calling the Deep State's bluff, literally living out the script of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He filibustered, he sponsored, he blocked, he voted contrary, he investigated, he did oversight, etc. He did everything a concerned citizen can lawfully do within the constraints of the System in order to oppose the corruption.
Trump has always been pro-America and he has always been clear that he is in business to make money, which is a traditional American value. Businesses that lose money ought to go bankrupt and incompetents should be fired. Trump still believes that old-fashioned "nonsense" and, yes, being pro-American, pro-business and pro-market is a traditional (conservative) American outlook. While Ron Paul has a heart of gold, a heart of gold is not sufficient to clean out the DC Swamp because the Swamp is playing way, way outside of the law, while constraining patriots like Ron Paul to only using means within the law in order to change the System. And that's where somebody like Trump is useful. The meaning of "law" at the highest echelons of power, really is fuzzy and unclear, so you need somebody who will use that fuzziness for the good of the people, instead of using it to enslave them, as the Swamp has been doing since at least 1913. Shamelessly.
I was not pro-Trump in 2016 (and didn't vote for him). I would still not call myself "pro-Trump" but I'm certainly not anti-Trump. And as far as I can tell, Paul's view of Trump largely tracks with my own, over time. Sure, he's got a lot of questionable policy opinions. But the purpose of the Executive was never to set policy in the first place, that's what Congress is supposed to do. The Executive is supposed to, well, execute policy. And the problem that Trump has tried to take on is that the entire apparatus of government has become corrupt to the point that it seems only a CC would be able to correct it; yet we all know what would happen if there were a CC (Dems would seize the opportunity to flood it with fake voting, fraud, etc.) So yes, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Perhaps Trump still yet has some role to play in that...
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