Dakota Beacon

Is Trump in the process of unraveling everything he has accomplished in the area of illegal migration and the securing of our border?  It looks that way.

There is a very sound reason not to elect a populist.  A populist is like a mushroom - no roots, just feeding on the rot of decayed spirit and mentality.  America, following the pernicious Obama administration, was decayed enough to elect a populist rather than a thoughtful conservative.  A few warned of this.  It was a short-sighted, knee-jerk reaction, prompted by a childish kind of glitz.  Trump, a mere celebrity not known for his political convictions or scholarship,  floating down a golden escalator,  was enough to convince the American public that this was all they needed.  We passed over a knowledgeable, grounded conservative - Ted Cruz - when the time was ripe to elect him - in favor of a shallow, glib celebrity.

To be fair, Trump did some things out of hubris that were a net benefit.  His appointments were mixed - some disastrous (Amy Coney Barrett, Kristi Noem) and others were very good (Tulsi Gabbard, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Tom Homan).  In his second round, he managed to close the southern border.  His deportations have taken many dangerous criminals off of our streets.  

On the downside, he failed to shut down the Ukraine war, which he had promised to end within days of his inauguration.  It seems to be another morass, with hundreds of thousands killed (none of which would have happened, had Biden’s administration of puppeteers not meddled and shut down the 2022 peace accord between Russia and Ukraine.  

His deportation program has helped in his border closing in that it eliminated the standing open invitation.  Many in Mexico and Central America (as well as those piggy-backing on them from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Europe) made decisions based on the policies they expected to find in place when they arrived at the Rio Grande.   The prospect of being stopped or arrested and deported kept many from making the trek.  

But why should we reject non-criminals (setting aside the fact that their illegal entry is criminal in itself)?  Children are being brought in - trafficked - for the sex trade, working-age people, who undermine wages for American workers, not to mention those here waiting to become tools of terrorists (sleeper cells), are an injury to America and Americans.  The criminal element speaks for itself.  We have admitted murderers, drug dealers and the mentally unsound in these waves of immigrant caravans.  

The best thing we can possibly do as Americans for the benefit of these abused children is to say absolutely NO admission.  It sounds harsh but it isn’t.  Our welcome mat encourages the abuse and exploitation of children and their impoverished parents.  Kids are sold to traffickers who promise to get them into America.   Parents often pay a cartel to bring the children here “for a better life” and the kids become slaves here.  

Against this background Trump, embarrassed by the mid-term wreckage,  figured out that he might have “gone too far” in his deportation program,  maybe he should soften up and relax the deportations, “work with Democrats” to find a “pathway” to them being legal here.  In other words, amnesty for people who came here illegally (criminally, that means).  Is he mad?  Well, there is a case to be made there.  Crime, as he likes to brag, is down.  Mostly because we withdrew our invitation to illegals to enter our country.  And now, with Texas in the hands of some very irresponsible, if not anti-American,  leadership, he is talking openly about abandoning the most important issue on which he was elected.  

To some of us, his ultimate betrayal is no surprise.  We expected it and knew that his lack of commitment to any particular beliefs would emerge and it has in many ways.  One can only hope that he is playing games again, but to what possible end is a mystery.  Why dangle that invitation again, having proven that its absence has meant the possibility of maintaining our border?  Without this border, of course, we have no more America.  That border is the delineation and definition of our physical nation.  What possible gain does Trump see in teasing cartels and caravans?  As we speak, two caravans embarked on the journey to our border, to gather  there, incentivising Mexico to help them enter our country, upon hearing the news of our mid-term elections.  Maybe they will be here and ready to breach our fences by the time the Democrats are sworn in and assume power.  

Trump’s detractors will either acclaim his conversion into a soft-on-borders leftist or, in the alternative, allege that he is suffering from dementia.  Both could be true.   But it behooves those of us who believe in an American nation, in our national security and personal safety, to weigh in with Trump against his waffling.  It might make a difference, even in the short term, which is all we have right now.  Only a few days ago the talk was that Trump might get something enacted which would be of a more permanent nature, to keep our borders secure.  What benefit is that if we provide every encouragement and incentive to basically break in?  This man needs to make up his mind and tell us where he really stands.  He is taxing our patience with his “5-D chess” moves.  

Trump has been a great disappointment to those of us who hoped he would make good on his plans to shut down the Department of Education.  Instead of taking this vital step to reverse our spiral into illiteracy and third-world ignorance, he has focused on gilding the fireplaces in the 

White House, trying to transform the capital city with a fake Arc deTriomphe or a big, beautiful ballroom.  Why the subterfuge on the latter?  Everyone already suspects or knows that it hides a sort of bunker.  If a bunker was needed, just say so.  He is as transparent as glass.  

Meanwhile he dallies with suspense over his coveted endorsement for the uphill challenge of the next Republican presidential candidate.  Will he endorse his detractor, Vance?  Will it be Rubio?  We should hope neither.  Although Rubio has shown development as an outspoken defender of our borders and Constitution and strong on foreign policy and national defense (in contrast to Qatar suck-up JD Vance).  One would hope that whomever is tapped for this will at least be a committed conservative, rather than an upstart opportunist like Vance.  A serious person would look outside of the present administration for a candidate and none better than Ron DeSantis, whose state, under his leadership, is setting the American gold standard.  

DeSantis will most likely be laying the groundwork and the network to claim the nomination but wait to declare his candidacy to see whether the mid-term Democrats screw things up enough in two years to give any candidate a fighting chance.  We are likely near the end of the American story.  How will it end?  Violently, as France is dying?  Or with a little whimper?  With an open coup as in Brazil?  Or in a sort of de facto manner as in the case of Britain?  Or can we pull it out of the fire and preserve America for our grandchildren?  

One thing is clear - our staggering illiteracy is enabling our destruction.  And the first step to take before it is too late is to dismantle the Education Department without delay.  Sadly, this president seems more interested in making deliberately irresponsible comments than doing something serious.  This, like everything else, needs to be done within a couple of months, and it looks less likely every day.  He should also get a ban on voting machines and take other steps to prevent fraud.  Year after year this gets postponed for someone else.  And we are losing our country every day.

If we allow illegal aliens a “pathway” to legal residency here the current Democrat base will massively increase.  There will be a one party political system until the Muslim conservatives (not our kind of conservatives) split from the Marxists.  Then our choice will be between these two and Republicans will join the Whig Party as a part of our nation’s colorful past.  It is possible that Trump wants his legacy to be the last Republican President of the United States.  It looks as though he is working on that.