The Fauci Effect

 

Donald Trump is soon to leave office, albeit in a predictable cloud of controversy.  Some of his own making, much of it a fog of smoke from fires set by lovers of the establishment, that Godless amalgamation of evildoers who don't cotton to populist incursions.

In short, Trump was an anomaly, a candidate the deep state, specifically the Council of Foreign Relations, failed to take seriously in 2016.  By the time they realized he was a legitimate threat, he was packing stadiums from coast to coast with basket-fulls of those dreaded, yet lovable Deplorables.

Unknown to most Americans, the CFR vets presidential candidates, which is why, with rare exception, the last two standing are about as different as a bowlful of peas and carrots.  Or carrots and peas, if you prefer.  A prime example would be the 2004 election, which pitted CFR candidate A against CFR candidate B, both good and faithful Skull and Bones men.  Here is a club which inducts fifteen men per year.  What are the odds two members, George W. Bush and John Kerry, wind up as the two finalists in the presidential beauty contest?  Just one of those things, one of those crazy things.

(For more on this, see Antony Sutton's America's Secret Establishment:  An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones)

Trump was likely well-intentioned when he assumed office, and despite four years of unceasing mad, unhinged opposition, he survived, even with notable accomplishments.  He made worthy judicial appointments, and kept the nation out of a major shooting war.  But watching him throw barbs toward his enemies was worth the price of admission.

The establishment seethed, and stopped at nothing to see him defeated.  Many Americans could not overcome the insult of the behavior which is commonplace in Queens, and joined their voices in the cacophony of outrage, preferring a doddering old D.C. stalwart to Bad Orange Man.

Now we'll be back to business as usual, only on crack.

Make no mistake, what happened to Trump is the same thing that happened to JFK, only without bloodshed.  This generation of Americans just got bitch-slapped by the establishment in grand fashion.  The message is clear:  this will not happen again.  We select the presidents, not you.

(But what of Reagan? you ask.  Reagan slipped by as well, but became acceptable when he selected a CIA man as his Veep.  For eight years, Reagan was a figurehead.  It was a Bush White House, with Bush senior advisor Howard Baker serving as the Gipper's Chief of Staff.  Baker filled the administration with Bush loyalists.  Reagan turned out to be a big government guy as well.  Conservative in rhetoric only.)

Early prediction for '24:  President Harris versus oh, I dunno.  Who's a younger version of Mitt Romney?

Anyway, even with The Don in The Oval, not much really changed.  As he exits, government has grown larger, as it did with Reagan.  The unfathomable federal debt stands at 27 trillion, up from Obama's 17.

Why is this?  It's The Fauci Effect.

On the advice of Anthony Fauci, states began killing their economies, while Trump stood to the side, having yielded his bully pulpit to the statist mask-wearing - oops, not mask-wearing, munchkin whose directives did anything but "promote the general welfare."  Every time the lil' bureaucrat opened his mouth, a torpedo was launched into the hull of the sinking Re-Elect Trump ship.

 Somewhat ironically, Fauci assumed his office on November 2, 1984, assimilating into the establishment under the watch of Ronald Reagan.  He's been there ever since, and will be waving goodbye when Trump flies away on Marine One for the last ride.

He is indicative of the real problem in America:  this scourge of unelected bureaucrats, administrative lifers whose careers outlast that of presidents.  Bureaucrats set policy, administrate it, enforce it, and taxpayers have little recourse to resist.  No matter who takes the oath of office, the rats remain on the ship.  Be it a Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Obama or Trump, they remain, going to office parties, sipping cocktails, and smirking if anybody ever makes mention of those smelly Wal Mart people.  All that happens in House and Senate chambers is a shuffling of cups, a rearranging of deck chairs on the Titanic.

Here's the dream scenario:  A presidential candidate who actually knows what's going on magically slips by the CFR vetting process, and announces:  "The day after I am elected, I will send a letter to all federal department heads, asking for their resignations.  We will then begin a review of whether these positions warrant being filled, or eliminated."

Sends a tingle up my leg just typing that.  Actually, it's not an original idea.  Evangelical lunatic Pat Robertson uttered these words when he ran against Bush The First in 1988.  After I heard him say it, I became a volunteer in his campaign.

Prior to becoming #45, Donald Trump excelled at firing people, even famously.  Save for the evil James Comey, and the incompetent Jeff Sessions, he cooled his jets on terminations.  He shouldn't have.

Of course, Trump was never a conservative.  He's always been a big government man, but one who refused to bend his knee to the D.C. Club.  He wasn't one of them.  That's why they hated him.  He could not be controlled, so, he had to be eliminated.

Trump got his four years.  A government full of Faucis saw him come, and will now watch him go.  They'll be there long enough to see Harris succeed Biden, and they'll be there whenever she leaves.  Eventually, they'll retire, fully vested with  handsome and generous taxpayer-funded government pensions.

Presidents come, presidents go.  The Fauci Effect never changes.

At least, until The Great Default.