The potential for our Republic’s future, which was only touched on in Donald Trump’s embattled first Administration, and which has been hinted at in his Agenda47 policies, has now been fully unfolded in the new 2024 Republican Party Platform. Donald Trump did more than inspire the Platform. According to Axios, “Trump — sometimes with a Sharpie or felt pen, sometimes over the phone with policy and speechwriting aide Vince Haley — personally edited every line of the 16-page platform, including commas and adjectives. Hence the Trumpian all-caps and Trump language.”

Let’s start with the dedication, “To the Forgotten Men and Women of America,” and to a key assertion in the preamble, “The Republican Party must return to its roots as the Party of Industry, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, and Workers.” Especially since the assassination of Republican President William McKinley in 1901, the British-originated enemies of our Republic have pitted the productive sectors of our society against each other, in various party and factional combinations, leaving the financier elite and their central banking system in control. Donald Trump’s vision, if implemented, will end that. (This was also  the intention of Franklin Roosevelt, who previously rallied the “forgotten men and women” in his fight against Wall Street.) So much for silly party labels and left-right political metrics.

Produce, Produce, Produce

James Carville (who is currently tearing out his non-existent hair over the Biden debacle) only had it partly right, when he said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” It is not the economy as it currently exists. Today’s economy includes speculators, marijuana shops, LGBTQ retailers, casinos, and the military-industrial complex. A healthy economy fosters production, and the 2024 GOP Platform has a singular focus on producing our way out of the crisis. Whether it is addressing  ending inflation, or improving the living standards for young people and for seniors, or protecting our defense industrial base, the Platform focuses on producing. While addressing the obvious need to cut idiotic and harmful spending (which may indeed total in the hundreds of billions), Donald Trump knows that the solution to most of our nation’s existential crises lies in producing new physical wealth. There happens to be a name for this. It is called the American System, and Donald Trump is the first president since the assassinated William McKinely to advocate for it. (See Police Dossier: It Is the British Who Murder Our Presidents https://www.prometheanaction.com/it-is-the-british-who-murder-our-presidents/)

Many of the elements of the new platform are familiar to those who have followed Trump’s Agenda47 proposals.  We have highlighted them since he began releasing them in early 2023. They include his commitments to 1. Make the U.S. a manufacturing superpower with an aggressive tariff policy; 2. End the green mandates and unleash American energy production, including nuclear; 3. Close the border and wage war against the cartels, drugs, and crime; and 4. Create a strong, modern defense (including the revival of missile defense), while ending perpetual wars.

But the new Platform pulls these policies, and more, into 20 clearly stated promises which grab you like a musical composition and highlight those elements which especially distinguish Trump from the “globalist financier class” and “fascists” (his words) and their controlled uniparty. Some of the less familiar and particularly “Trumpian” aspects of the platform include his adamant defense of Social Security and Medicare, his proposal to build new cities, and his willingness to use “all tools of National Power” to protect our infrastructure and industrial base.

When you read the entire Platform, which is only 16 pages long, it is clear that this is not Jeffersonian “limited government.” Nor is this the Republican Party of the Bushes, or of the Neocons, or of simpleton budget cutters. Nor is it the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the  1,000-page tome of mostly failed establishment policy which Trump trashed in the days before the Platform’s release. Instead, we are witnessing the re-emergence of the original Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley, before it was taken over, through multiple assassinations, by British liberal economics.  

Technological and Culture Optimism

And the British have taken note. The London Guardian freaks out that the Platform is scary, “Not because it rolls out the usual litany of conservative policy preferences, but precisely because of where it breaks from that orthodoxy. The new party platform is scary, because it can win,” citing its defense of blue collar workers and entitlements. 

Unspoken by the Guardian and other elites is that they recognize that something new, and quite out of their control, is occurring in the United States. The Platform invokes “the same American Spirit that led us to prevail through every challenge of the past,” which will “lead us to a brighter future.” 

Nowhere is that clearer in the Platform than in Chapter 3 on rebuilding the economy:

“Under Republican Leadership, the United States will create a robust Manufacturing Industry in Near Earth Orbit, send American Astronauts back to the Moon, and onward to Mars, and enhance partnerships with the rapidly expanding Commercial Space sector to revolutionize our ability to access, live in, and develop assets in Space.” 

Here we see the revival of the United States of John F. Kennedy, and with it the technological optimism which can conquer the sense of “hopelessness and despair” among young people which the platform preamble pledges to address. That American New Frontier spirit will also drive the needed and necessary revolution in education back to a combination of “classic Liberal Education,” the values of Western Civilization, and “project-based” (i.e., vocational) learning. 

Underlying the platform, if unspoken, is the embrace of man’s unique mission to be fruitful, to multiply, to subdue the earth and exert dominion over nature, as expressed in Genesis 1:28. It is that which has been under attack by the oligarchy and which has led to an anti-American culture which disdains the human mind, the human identity, and human life. 

And it is the revival of that which will transform the American political landscape, will propel Trump into the White House, and will lay the basis for the United States to fulfill its historic mission in the world.

Once again, the imperial elite get it and fear it, as the Guardian concludes in its article on the platform:

“This is a side of Trump we haven’t previously seen; he is campaigning to win in a dangerously coherent way. If progressives don’t wake up and offer an appealing alternative, Trump might do more than rule through the courts and through executive orders — he might forge a long-lasting, majoritarian movement.”

Susan Kokinda

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