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method in king donald’s ‘madness’

friday, april 25th, 2025

For the purpose of writing this column, I had to do some research as I always do. What struck me was how effortlessly China is winning the battle of narratives.

[FULL TITLE: "There’s method in King Donald’s ‘madness’ on China."] Don’t go by the defiant rhetoric, China is hurting and in deep trouble over Trump’s tariffs.

It’s all a little confusing. We are apparently in the middle of a trade war, caught in the crossfire as the world’s two largest economies slap each other with tariffs in an escalatory spiral with the Donald Trump administration imposing 145% levies on most Chinese goods this month. That’s more than a little concerning for China, the trade surplus nation that has everything to lose if it is denied access to the American market. Conversely, the United States, the considerably larger and stronger economy that ran a $295.4 billion deficit with China in 2024, is in possession of a whole toolbox of options that it may deploy to increase China’s pain point. That’s economics 101. Countries that enjoy trade surplus, and most certainly China that sends more than $400 billion in goods to the US each year, are vulnerable during trade wars.And yet since the past few weeks western media is chock-full with reports, articles and analyses on China’s ‘impregnable’ economy, its unbeatable resilience, the madness of ‘King Donald’, Xi Jinping’s ‘courage’, ‘moral integrity’ and the fearsome retribution that awaits American economy owing to Trump’s ‘folly’.

We are told that China is ‘winning’, Americans are losing, and tottering Trump’s tariff tantrums have presented Xi with a ‘gift’. Portentous pundits pontificate that this is not a trade war, but American economy’s stunning act of suicide led by a dimwit dolt who occupies the Oval Office. China, not one to let go of opportunity, has mounted a meticulously calibrated narrative attack on American social media networks – that are inaccessible to the Chinese – to spread worry and panic over Trump’s decision, and going by the engagements such posts are getting, it would seem the tactic is succeeding.

This piece is essentially about setting the record straight. Make no mistake, China is hurting. Trump’s tariffs, that now stand at a staggering 145%, going up to even 245% on certain goods, present an unprecedented challenge for the exports-dependent Chinese economy that is caught in a deflationary loop, and unless the challenge is mitigated there will be punishing job cuts and very little bandwidth for debt-ridden local governments to bail out the struggling sectors.

The one thing China cannot afford to do, however, is blink. The Chinese system, led by ‘chairman of everything’ Xi Jinping, is built for stability. It is not meant for adjustments, pliability or conflict. Xi, for all his power, cannot let slip even a hint of weakness. Trump can take unlimited punches, suffer being called a clown, and still stand in the ring. Xi cannot yield even if he’s haemorrhaging.

In this piece, I shall strive to explain my position, and elucidate that China’s fire and brimstone rhetoric conceals its deep anxiety and fear underneath.

I posit that Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs, that have now been paused against every other nation except China, is in essence an attempt at a systemic reset.

It is, of course, done in a very Trumpian fashion with all the trappings of a reality TV show. That is why despite all available evidence to the contrary of the inherent strength of the American economy, most pundits suffering from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ are writing off America’s chances in this trade war, and media’s unbalanced coverage is hinging on an axiomatic position that China can do no wrong. Trump, albeit crudely, is trying to decouple American economy from China’s. He understands perhaps intuitively that China has perfected the art of gaming the system of open trade authored by America to such an extent that while China’s export-driven economy achieved uber-efficiency in a matter of decades – trading with 145 countries in 2023, a rise of almost 50% since 2008 – its economy by and large remained inaccessible to the world.

Successive American administrations have identified the problem but have been unable to deal with it. China manipulates the WTO-led open trade order, knows how to exploit the loopholes, and has grown immeasurably prosperous by building a sprawling manufacturing base in a relatively short time at the cost of its peer competitors. Trump considers the trajectory deeply unfair and is ready to take drastic steps.

To quote researcher Zineb Riboua of Hudson Institute from her blog, “Trump’s trade war is a reconfiguration. His repeated attacks on the World Trade Organization, threats to withdraw, and efforts to bypass multilateral forums all signal a deeper strategy: to reset the rules of global trade in ways that constrain China’s model. For decades, China used the WTO system to scale its export economy while shielding its domestic market. That asymmetric advantage is now being challenged at the foundation.” Look beyond the sweeping tariffs, and you’ll find a conscious attempt to isolate China by striking deals with America’s trading partners. Whether or not the policy will be successful is moot, what we are watching now is the application of the strategy. Some of the trade negotiations the Trump administrations are involved in right now with a bevy of trading partners are aimed at clamping down on transshipment of Chinese goods that are rerouted through third countries to conceal origins, synchronized taxes, or going after Chinese raw materials meant for the American market.

The brain behind this step, according to the Wall Street Journal, is US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who apparently pitched the idea to Trump. It involves systematically removing China from the American economy despite the heavy integration and even potentially delisting Chinese stocks from US exchanges to tackle the “the biggest offender in the global trading system”.

Wall Street Journal reports that US officials “plan to use negotiations with more than 70 nations to ask them to disallow China to ship goods through their countries, prevent Chinese firms from locating in their territories to avoid US tariffs, and not absorb China’s cheap industrial goods into their economies.” The Trump White House reckons that if executed, the moves will considerably weaken China’s hand, dent further its already plagued economy and force Beijing to sit across the table with little leverage.

It won’t be easy, of course. UK, for example, has dismissed the idea of cutting trade ties with China despite heavy American pressure. However, if the US succeeds in extracting concessions from even some of them – such as Mexico where Chinese firms have invested billions in hundreds of Mexican factories to make millions of products for the American market tariff-free by taking advantage of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement – then the noose will tighten around China.

Largely due to China’s machinations – its firms exploiting the Mexican loophole – US trade deficit with Mexico shot up to nearly $172 billion in 2024 from about $78 billion in 2018. (Read the WSJ report here).

Or take Vietnam, another favourite destination for Chinese firms to relocate their production. Just like Mexico, that has reportedly offered to match American levies on China to strike a deal with Trump, Vietnam, faced with the prospect of 46% US tariffs, sent a team to Washington and promised to crack down on “trade fraud”, a reference to millions of Chinese goods routed to the US through its territory to avoid American taxes. Chinese tactics range from establishing factories in Vietnam, using Vietnamese workers to process goods for the ‘made in Vietnam’ label, or as Reuters reports, making ships carrying Chinese-made goods dwell in Vietnamese ports “just long enough to obtain documents certifying that the products were made in Vietnam before leaving.” Little wonder that Vietnam now has the fourth-highest trade surplus with the US, next only to China, Mexico and the EU.

If these routes are blocked, China would obviously be in deeper trouble. China manufactures far more products than its consumers can absorb, making exports imperative for the wheels of its economy to run. The deflation loop that it suffers from owing to its crisis-ridden real estate sector, where most of the middle-class wealth is parked, is exacerbated by the fact that its export volume far outstrips prices, adding to deflationary pressure.

This is exactly where Trump is stress-testing the Chinese economy by levying eye-watering taxes on exports, attempting to shift the entire global trade architecture from ‘open’ to one based on bilateral ‘deals’ and collective coercive mechanisms. China finds Trump difficult to tackle owing to his unpredictability and refusal to play by the established rules, rules that China has spent decades in manipulating.

China also finds it discomfiting that for the leader of a democracy, Trump has a higher threshold of pain and is driven by a sense of manifest destiny. This allows Trump, who has suffered two assassination attempts, to take steps that are seemingly impossible or at least difficult for a leader who functions within the parameters of an electoral democracy. Trump’s uncertainty, unpredictability, greater latitude, and the ability to absorb criticisms pose a particularly tricky challenge for Xi. If the Chinese president retaliates and matches Trump in countermeasures, he risks exposing China’s rickety economy to more external shocks. If Xi appears to back down, that could send a message of ‘weakness’, a fatal quality in a CCP general secretary.

That doesn’t mean Xi is sitting idle. It has been fascinating to watch the Chinese retaliation, calibrated, targeted and relentless.

Cognizant of America’s endeavour to isolate China, Xi has gone on a diplomatic charm offensive. The ‘wolf warrior’ has transformed into an ‘affable’ Xi, trying to win friends and influence people. The Chinese president is wooing the Europeans, trying to wean the bloc away from America’s influence. Xi recently hosted the Spanish president, Pedro Sanchez, and urged the EU to join forces with China to ‘defend globalization’ and resist “unilateral acts of bullying”, a thin reference to Trump’s tariffs.

Europeans, anxious with the antics of a mercurial American president whom they do not trust, are in turn gravitating closer to their “systemic rival”, easing regulations on Chinese-made electric vehicles and planning a trip to Beijing in July for a summit meeting with Xi. Self-interest is thicker than ‘values’ and ‘principles’.

As Xi’s commerce minister was working the phone lines to parley with European and ASEAN officials, the Chinese president went recently on a Southeast Asia tour, seeking to draw Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam closer to form a broader coalition against Trump’s tariffs. Xi’s aim was to portray China as the defender of the global trading system that these nations have benefitted from, and paint China as an image of stability and reliability amid global uncertainty. His task was also to ensure that these Southeast Asian nations do not give in to Trump’s demands of cutting China off from their economies or impose taxes of their own on Chinese goods.

China has also sought to present a friendlier face to India. If you tell me that Beijing’s moves to placate New Delhi over a $100 billion trade surplus and promise of buying more “premium products” from Indian manufacturers (that it is yet to act on) has nothing to Trump’s belligerence, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Alongside, China has raised duties on American products to 125%, carefully targeting the Red States – blocking natural gas, Boeing jets, beef, poultry and bone meals along with export restrictions on rare earths. These moves are designed to hit specific industries rooted in the MAGA base and exploit America’s dependence on critical minerals needed for modern appliances, medical and defence technology.

These elaborate and intricate retaliatory mechanisms adopted by China suggest that Xi is in a precarious spot, waiting for his opponent to blink in a costly game of poker. Not only does he face an economic crisis that cannot be wished away, he is also struggling with another eventuality – the inevitable fallout of adopting deception as the fulcrum of state policy is that the Chinese Communist Party has made China friendless, and though it runs trade surplus with many nations, it runs trust deficit with everyone.

Australia, Japan and South Korea have already rejected his calls of forming a broad coalition against Trump administration, the Southeast Asian nations and the European Union are hedging their bets.

On the economic front, despite CCP’s tight control over information, it is difficult to hide the markers of trouble. At the recent Canton trade fair, China’s biggest expo held twice a year in the city of Guangzhou where Chinese manufacturers, all 30,000 of them showcase their products to clients around the globe – a healthy chunk from America – the signs of distress were overwhelming.

Financial Times spotted a notice by the organisers of the fair, started by Mao Zedong in 1957, describing the current trade scenario as “grim and complex” and warning exhibitors that they would carry out inspections at the end of each of the fair’s three stages to ensure that “none packed up early”. The newspaper quoted many exporters at the fair, saying that that the new levies made selling to the US market unfeasible, with some commenting that “all of our US customers have paused all of their orders… the tariff is too high.”

Reuters also spoke to a bunch of exhibitors. Most were too depressed over the proceedings, confirming that American orders “have either been delayed or stopped coming”, a matter of concern for the Chinese economy that’s more exposed to the vulnerabilities of an unstable global commerce than any other nation.

Some are looking to close their factories set up in Southeast Asian nations to bypass duties as Trump ratchets up tariffs across the board, while some are laying off employees, reducing management costs and cutting down on sundry expenses.

Trump’s tariffs, according to another Reuters report, may “slash Chinese exports to the US by 30%, cut overall exports by more than 4.5%, and drag economic growth by 1.3 percentage points.” It will be difficult for Chinese manufacturers, plagued with overcapacity, to cater to new markets of increased competition with the possibility looming large that many nations may raise their own barriers to stop dumping of redirected Chinese goods.

One option that Xi in doubling on to escape the punch and clinch on Chinese economy, is spur domestic spending to absorb some of the overcapacity, given that exports to the US may tumble by around 80% over the next two years.

The trouble with this plan is that Chinese consumers are unable to spend – as a fall in consumer price index would indicate that declined for a second straight month according to latest data, and producer deflation that recorded a fall for the 29th straight month.

Part of the reason Chinese domestic market cannot soak up excess capacity is that its middle-class wealth, tied up in the troubled real estate sector and stock markets is taking a severe beating in a society where “70% of family assets are tied up in property. Every 5% decline in home prices will wipe out 19 trillion yuan ($2.7 trillion) in housing wealth, according to Bloomberg Economics.”

While housing sector’s value may dramatically shrink in China’s GDP, the $2.9 trillion ‘shadow bank’ industry is suffering a collapse, deepening the wealth wipeout.

Global banks are slashing China’s growth forecasts with UBS downgrading China’s 2025 growth forecast to 3.4% despite a 5.4% growth in first quarter, while the tariffs have squeezed low-end manufacturers’ wafer-thin margin even tighter. Local governments, lacking in revenue streams, are too impoverished to provide support.

FDI flow is at its lowest in three decades, while “confidence in the system among many in China’s elite has been shattered,” reported Bloomberg, quoting an investor who lost 16 million yuan ($2.2 million) from trust products. The report says he’s considering selling his family home in Beijing for a smaller apartment to raise cash.

The CCP’s legitimacy is ultimately tied to China’s growth prospects, so the more economic challenges grow, unemployment prospects loom large, the hotter it may get for Xi under the collar with chances growing of internal dissent. Now, put in context the old clip that has resurfaced on American social media networks amplified by China’s foreign ministry, of Mao Zedong declaring that “We are Chinese. We are not afraid of provocations. We don’t back down.”

The shrillness can barely conceal the nervousness beneath.

A Day In The Life.

Up at 8a on Good Friday, I said my morning prayers, made coffee and breakfast, took a 250mg Bayer Aspirin for various back/hip pains, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP Desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the garage and checked the leftover errands list. Today and next week are clear, so Sherry will come by at 5p today, after working at Daughter Hollie's Virtue Local Art Market Shop, in nearby Hallam, and we can enjoy the beautiful day together, for an hour or so, and plan a day or two for next week.

Nowhere to go, nothing to do, and no one to do it with.

A 51°F, clear & blue sky, light breeze morning, it was forecast to be a 76° day, with temps at 83°F, tomorrow. I'm sort of thinking Winter's finally gone, but just so the brutal heat and humidity of Summer isn't ready to fall on us prematurely, and that we do have a decent Spring this year. I'm going to enjoy the back patio over the weekend. I scanned the weather and news headlines, for updates from last night, enjoying the new variety of Kona Coffee... until a kitchen ceiling recessed floodlight bulb blew. Heh. That became a 30min+ project -- replacement on basement's 'Prep Shelves', 2-step ladder in garage -- and removing old/reinstalling new bulb was a bitch. By 11:30a, the sky was high-overcast but a warm and pleasant day was at hand.

Temps hit 80° by 1p, and I had some errands to do, a delivery from Weis Market in Enola (PA), get stuff unpacked and put away, and relax until Sherry arrived around 5:30p. Which she did. We had a very nice hour together, before she had to leave. I made dinner, watched the news, switched to Discovery's "Gold Rush" until 12 midnight, turned on the AC at 73°, and bagged it for the night.

Up at 9:15a on Saturday, a windless, muggy, cloudy and high overcast, unusually warm 71° morning for this time of year, and forecast to reach 83°, I turned-off the AC, made coffee, fired-up the HP Desktop to check the weather and news, and had breakfast. I had some paperwork to finish-up, a couple errands to run, and after a late lunch, grabbed an hour nap. Temps hit 84° briefly, and dropped into the low-60s for the night. After dinner, I watched Discovery's "Homestead Rescue" (mostly reruns) and TWC's "Weather Gone Viral" until 12 midnight. Lights out.

Up at 7a on Easter Sunday, an overcast 63° morning. I made coffee, skipped breakfast in favor of Easter Lunch at Sis' condo, scanned the news and weather, By 11a, I was ready for the day, and left at 12:15 for Sis' condo, for Easter Dinner. We had a nice 2hrs together, catching-up on Family matters, I carved the rest of the spiral-cut ham, took some leftovers and got home to chores. Laundry, garbage, recyclables and sweep out the garage, which was littered with flower petals from Bradford Pears, Japanese Cherries and Crabapples, all in bloom. Glorious!

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

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Chores done, I had dinner, called Sherry for some time together this week, watched the news, then switched to Discovery's "Filthy Fortunes" series, until 11:30p, and unplugged.

Up at 9a on Monday, a heavily overcast, 59° with Spring showers coming thru the area, I made coffee, had a smoke in the garage w/ fresh air, and tuned into the "CP Show LIVE" from 9-12. I scanned the news and weather, and it was all "Pope Dies at 88", headlines, everywhere. I skipped breakfast, and left for my 4 errands at points south of York. I stopped to refuel the Jeep HEMI V8 at nearby Royal Farms, and got Ethanol Free 90 oct Premium at $4.15/gal, down from $4.79/gal, just 3 weeks ago. Nice. After unloading, I put the Jeep away in the garage -- keeping the tree rats away from it-- had lunch, rechecked the news and weather, and took a 2hr snooze.

Back up around 4, I took a short walk around the block, and enjoyed the fresh air. I worked on some paperwork until the evening news, After that, I switched to History's "unXplained Mysteries" and TWC's "Weird Weather" until 1a, and bagged it for the night.

Up at 10a on Tuesday, a bright, sunny 70° morning, with the lawnmower crews buzzing around all over the complex. I made coffee, tuned into the "CP Show", and scanned the weather forecasts and news headlines. I had Soft-Boiled Eggs w/ Toast In a Bowl for breakfast, and did the last load of laundry from the weekend. 84° by 4p, and forecast to be in the 80s all week. After doing some condo chores and a few errands locally, I spent time on the back patio, watching the returning perennials 'grow'. Heh.

After dinner, I watched the FNC News, switched to History's "Curse of Oak Island" until 12 midnight, and unplugged.

Up at 8a on Wednesday, I made coffee, fired-up the HP Desktop to check weather and news, and had breakfast. I opened the front & back storm/screen doors and enjoyed the fresh air. With the usual "CP Show LIVE" on WMAL (DC), I got ready for the day, and waited for Sherry to arrive at 1p. She did, and we had 5 great hours together, before she left at just after 6p. I missed her before she backed down the driveway, and sped-off. After dinner, I watched the news, and switched to History's "American Pickers" for the rest of the evening. Lights out at 12:30a.

Up at 8a on Thursday, a partly sunny, low 25% humidity, an already warm, 65° morning, with lawn mowers, weed whackers and leaf blowers "singing" in concert at the condo complex across the road. Forecast to hit 80° again -- too warm for this time of year -- I opened the front and back doors to let fresh air thru, made coffee, tuned into the "CP Show LIVE", and scanned the news and weather. Lounging around all morning, I got a Weis Market (from Enola, PA), put away all 9 bags of food, did some cleaning and re-arranging in the garage, fed the birds bread/grapes/blueberries/blackberries, and finally got ready for the day around 12:30p.

The grossly-obese, smelly leftist dirtbag, JD Prtitzger (Gov-IL) continues to step on rakes, every time he opens his fat, stupid, gaping mouth. LOL. So much stupidity, BS and mentally-ill crap on the demonKKKrats' part, it's hard to keep track.

I had errands to run, and a couple 'condo chores' to do, so after getting back at 2:45p, I unloaded and had some late lunch. With chores yet to do, there just wasn't time for any nap, as with last night, and I slept very well. I watched the Fox/FNC Co's evening news, as I usually do, and switched to Discovery's "Homestead Rescue" until 1a. Lights out.

Tomorrow starts a new week, here in the "Journal", and VIOLA! iT'S ANOTHER CLEAR WEEK! We'll talk over the weekend, to set-up a day or two -- depending upon HER hectic and erratic schedule -- for US, and imjkportantly, she needs a day to herself, toget stuff done and relax. We can do that. Even if I have to give-up my day with her, she WILL get a day to herself.

World War G: Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Just Economics — They’re America’s Frontline Defense in the Globalist-Communist Hybrid War.

The reaction from the Left to President Donald Trump’s new tariff regime has been predictable. Like everything he does, this too will kill us all. Somehow.

It’s disturbing to see how many on the right are either in agreement with this knee jerk Leftist invective or express varying degrees of confusion. Some like this article from PJ Media seem to be hedging. The tariffs might work or they might not, they say:

“Being a wartime president is a high wire act. The PR battles matter greatly because your capacity to fight is limited by the electorate’s stomach for the mission. If you can’t sell the war, you’re probably not going to win it.

But all the cool, crafty PR tricks won’t mean a lick if your troops get their [tushies] kicked on the battlefield. War is a reality-based enterprise. You can’t bull[EXPLETIVE] your way to victory.”

I get it. There’s a risk to this strategy. There’s a risk to every strategy, however. And what’s interesting about this editorial is the writer has hit very close to the mark by characterizing Trump as a “wartime” president. Though in the writer’s mind the “war” in question is a figurative trade war and not an actual war. A war war.

It’s not a trade war. It’s not figurative at all. This is war.

And we as a country have a very big problem if we haven’t figured this out by now. The People’s Republic of China has been waging what it calls “hybrid war” against our country for more than a decade.

That’s not the terminology used by China experts at some think tank or policy mavens in some Ivy League panel. China, that big land mass teeming with people just across the Pacific Ocean, calls it “hybrid war.” And they are waging that war specifically against the United States. Against us.

Hybrid war isn’t just an aggressive term the Chinese use to describe their trade policy. According to Col. John Mills, hybrid war is a form of warfare (not bartering) that fuses the military with the civilian. A strategy that is easy for China to implement because they are Communist and the state legally holds controlling shares in all its corporations. Every business entity is also a potential military entity. All of which can be bent towards the will of the Chinese state.

And they are. Not for mere financial gain. For war. Against us.

What does that mean?

It means they are actively working to destroy our culture, our government, our institutions, and our freedoms. And for a while there during the Biden administration, I wouldn’t have been surprised at all if the Stars and Stripes had been taken down in DC to be replaced by the red flag of Maoist China. It would’ve seemed somehow more fitting seeing as at the time, I was a jailed political dissident looking out on that same city from the DC prison.

But this is not the only conflict we are facing. We are also locked in a struggle with the West to save the West.

Kyle Shideler at the American Mind also invokes the concept of war when he talks about this in his article Cold Civil War Gone Global. The clunky phrasing parses together all the aspects of this conflict. It is a kind of civil war and it is also a cold war. And, for good measure, it’s gone global.

Shideler sees the outline of the conflict. America is locked in a kind of civil cold war which he describes as the increasingly volatile tensions between the “ruling class” and the “country class.” And when you see how the American ruling class is continually aided by, and aids, the ruling classes of European nations, our supposed allies, you have no choice but to interpret this collaboration as the awful unity that it is.

If British intelligence can help our CIA and FBI implement the Russiagate hoax, and if our USAID dollars prop up gatekeeper institutions like the BBC or Australian universities, then we are fools if we don’t conclude that the little plastic flags on the desks of those at MI5 and the CIA belie the fact that they are actually all on a single team that has nothing to do with their respective nation states. Or us, the citizens of those states.

If that sounds like an accusation of disloyalty or treason to you, that’s because it is. It means those unelected bureaucrats running the government show in DC have more common in with their counterparts in London or Brussels than they do with you and me here in the middle of suburban America.

They are part of a class of self-styled supra-national elites made delusional by their egos and thirst for money and power. They imagine themselves overlords of increasingly larger swaths of the planet.

They include among their ranks not just faceless power-mad in government but also members of the WEF, those in multinational corporations, financial institutions, “non-government” organizations, and other institutions like those of faith, education, and medicine.

The outlines of this transnational cabal have been blatant since the Covid days when countries around the world uniformly instituted lock downs of their citizenry, turning a trip to the grocery store into a government-controlled privilege as they tightened the screws of draconian vaccine mandates.

It was not just America where this happened. It was China. It was Europe. It was Asia. In other words, every place on the planet where this group of wealthy and powerful held what is in business called a “controlling interest.”

And yet, in my tiny town in the boonies of Texas people went shopping without masks, chuckling at the overreaction of the city folk. Those people in DC, in London, in Beijing, and in Brussels — they weren’t us. They thought they could tell us what to do. But we opted for more common sense measures.

Yet since the Covid fiasco, this conglomeration of petty tyrants has become much less careful about keeping their organization and collaboration under wraps.

Presumably, they’ve acknowledged that the cat has already been let out of the bag with Covid. So now they openly coordinate with each other doing things like sabotaging peace talks between Russia and Ukraine and coordinating a unified response to American tariffs.

We know who they are by their shared methods and goals. It’s no accident that all throughout the West nations are mimicking tactics in lawfare to suppress populist movements. In France, Marine Le Pen has been banned from politics.

Matteo Salvini of Italy escaped being prosecuted for the crime of upholding immigration law, Jair Bolsanaro of Brazil now cannot run until 2030. They actually jailed Calin Georgescu of Romania. And while our current president remains a fitting example of using judges to gatekeep politicians, a little-known J6er, Couy Griffin was actually barred from politics for life by a New Mexico state court which invoked a the Civil War era law against “insurrectionists.”

This transnational Deep State cabal have other shared prerogatives. Like mass immigration and Utopian fantasies about a borderless society, controlling people by censorship or limiting our food supply, weaponizing big data for use against the citizens, training weapons of warfare like drones and intelligence inward towards the very people such weapons were built to protect, and plying the population with massive amounts of pharmaceuticals as well as lethal illegal drugs like fentanyl.

They foment fear. They want us all afraid and yet perpetually tuned out on porn, drugs, or gambling. It’s bread and circuses for the 21st century. You’ll own nothing, eat bugs, spend your entire life never moving more than 15 minutes away, and you’ll be completely disenfranchised, faithless, and hopeless.

This is their shared Utopian vision. But who are “they”? When talking about bureaucrats, we call them “Deep State.” When talking about businesses they’re refereed to as “Globalists.” But they aren’t two different things. We’ve seen how they coordinate. They even take hits for each other when tactics demand it.

If you find their vision and ideals abhorrent you likely already think of all of them under the umbrella term “enemy.”

We are slowly coming to see the total shape of it. Author GK Chesterton plays with the concept that sometimes things can be hidden in plain sight because they are too big.

In one of his murder mysteries, the characters discovered that a victim’s head hadn’t been dashed in by a weapon but by something considerably larger, the Earth itself. The victim fell. We are in a similar situation. We see the trees but not the totality of the forest they comprise.

I argue that we have one more step in discerning the total nature of the enemy. Along with these Deep State and Globalist elements, we must acknowledge that the PRC is also involved on a very intricate level.

I’m not merely talking about the PRC’s normal routine of taking over countries through coercive business loans. The Cabal and the PRC both desire the fall of the West. They both desire the destruction of our culture and our freedoms.

Not to mention the fact that the ideas of Globalism itself is little more than Communism implemented through crony capitalism. The Chinese government, being Communist, is therefore thoroughly ideologically aligned. The Deep State, the Globalists, and the PRC are a single unitive entity. Not separate. But one.

Whether the Deep State/Globalist Cabal and the PRC are acting together as part of a coordinated alliance or it’s incidental that they only appear to be working together is irrelevant.

This isn’t a court hearing and we aren’t in the business of waiting for evidence of culpability. The fact of the matter is that there is profound synergy between the two. In ideology, tactics, and desired outcomes.

The whys, hows, and whats all match. Tactically speaking, that’s all the information we need to answer the question: Who is our enemy?

But we can’t coordinate effectively if we limit ourselves to overly long terms that are themselves practically narrative descriptions. If we talk about our struggle engaging the Deep State/Globalist PRC Cabal in the Hybrid Cold Civil War Gone Global we’ll spend more time talking than a blue-haired weirdo explaining their pronouns in detail.

Not to mention the fact that Aquinas said a sign of lower intelligence is the inability to see wholes and instead to break things down into increasingly smaller and detailed parts in order to comprehend something. I argue that there are too many parts to the phrase Hybrid Cold Civil War Gone Global against the Deep State/Globalist PRC Cabal.

So let’s refine the concept a bit. It’s a war. And we know it’s a global war. That makes it a world war. But it’s not a world war like the clash of nations in world wars one and two. There are elements that make it like a civil war and like a cold war too — a fact I pointed out in my article on Cold Terror.

In a nod to fiction, I think the best way to refine this conflict into something appropriately unique is to compare it to the zombie novel, World War Z. In that novel the world was engaged in a global asymmetrical battle against a plague of zombies. Whereas the enemy in World War Z were hordes of the undead, we are locked in a struggle against Tesla terrorists (and other actors) whose minds have been overthrown by the woke mind virus. To me, that’s close enough.

We swap out the letter, though. Instead of Z for zombies, we use G for Globalists. Not because we’re fighting solely against multinational corporations but because we’re fighting against a deceptive neo-Communist delusional elite, and that’s what Globalism is: a vehicle for implementing Communism.

World War G.

This is the battle of our time. Against an enemy that imprisons their political opponents, weakens Western culture and national sovereignty, and seeks to deprive us of our material possessions as well as our most precious possession of all: our freedoms.

The funny thing is, if you think back to what President Trump has been doing since he got into office — fighting the drug trade and human trafficking, bringing jobs back to America, negotiating the end of forever wars, shrinking government, disemboweling USAID and other government departments of questionable worth or dubious loyalty — he’s been fighting World War G all along.

It’s wrong that our president for the most part appears to fighting this battle alone. At the very least, his own party should be willing to lend more enthusiastic support. So many people just shake their heads at the tariffs. They worry about the political cost should the tariffs not pan out. But that’s extremely shortsighted when we consider the disturbing fact why they were necessary in first place.

What’s at stake isn’t just some polling for the next election. What’s at stake is the very lifeblood of America and, by extension, the West itself. It’s not that the tariffs might not work. It’s that they must work. We’re talking about a war here. It’s a war of everything against everything else. A war where every dime you spend, every word you write, every choice you make either works for our freedom or helps those actively trying to destroy it. We won’t win by pretending that it’s not happening.

Like all world wars, this is going to call for an extraordinary effort on the part of everyone in the country. But at the very least, we need to be fighting it. So let’s gear up and get out there, warriors. We’ve got a war to fight. World War G.

There's No Such Thing as a "Sane" Democrat.

The rage and hysteria are escalating. They’re openly calling for Trump’s assassination.

They’re marching, they’re protesting, they’re screaming into the void for what, they don’t know. Something has been taken from them, something they desperately want back. It’s been ten long years of fighting, but nothing has worked. There is no way out for them. They’re trapped.

If you talk to one of them, they will tell you they believe things that aren’t true. Trump is taking away Social Security and Medicaid. They’ve eliminated the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They’ve eliminated the Department of Education. They’re “disappearing” people from the streets and sending them to concentration camps.

The truth doesn’t seem to matter and hasn’t for a long time now. Hyperbole is all because they have nothing left to sell, no vision for America’s future. Who would they be if they weren’t the people hunting Donald Trump? They do not know. They’ve destroyed themselves trying to destroy him.

The headlines fed to them supercharge their rage. These are mostly educated white women in real life, but in their fantastical imaginings of their cosplay resistance, they are warrior protectors of every oppressed group. It’s all coming true. Doomsday is here.

They don’t like the word “hysteria” because it hearkens back to the dark ages when women’s mental health issues were mislabeled that way. It’s the word. It’s always the word. They felt like no one could hear them scream. Out of that eternal frustration came the feminist movement, a movement now dead in its tracks.

It’s the word “hysteria,” like the word “woke,” like the word “illegal,” like the word woman like the word “homeless,” like the word “fat.” Change the word, change reality.

These white women can’t be feminists anymore because that makes them “white feminists” or “Karens.” They hate those words too. They must always defer, apologize, step back, de-center themselves, and elevate women of color who matter more.

They can’t be feminists because then they are TERFs. They must quietly go along with biological men creaming women in sports, Chess, even Jeopardy, all the while putting on a happy face and repeating TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.

They can’t protect girls anymore because what are girls anyway? They can’t even protect their unborn babies because those are unwanted invaders, oppressors who threaten their rights. What is left for these women? Hysteria. The whole thing has come full circle, and now, the American people have become the equivalent of the 1950s husband who leaves for a pack of cigarettes and never comes back.

The hysteria cycles through their feedback loops and algorithms on Facebook, TikTok, X, and probably Blue Sky, although I’m too afraid to look. I can only imagine what so many like-minded people stuck inside that bubble within a bubble are saying to each other, with so little critical thinking allowed inside.

Crazy drives the Democrats because white women drive the Democrats. They’re the most invested, the most reliable donors, and they scream the loudest.

Why do you think the whole thing comes down to Rachel Maddow and Jen Psaki on MSNBC? They are the face of the Democrats now.

The old guard and whatever is left of the hetero men in the party are quietly trying to reintroduce the idea of the progressive moderate. Bill Maher laments, where is our version of Donald Trump? Rahm Emanuel’s name keeps popping up. Steve Bannon suggested only Stephen A. Smith could come close to defeating MAGA, with or without Bannon’s wild pitch for Trump’s third term.

But the old guard is now being directly challenged by Peter Pan: the ascendant, who is coming out guns blazing—or should we say gun-control blazing? Or should we say finding his lost shadow?

David Hogg is now prepared to go full revolutionary, Disney style, in an attempt to revive the corpse that is the Democrat Party. He’s prepared to primary all of those stodgy and conventional Democrats to breathe new life into the status quo. It’s not going well.

The problem for the Democrats now is the same problem they had in 2016. They should be soul-searching, not protesting, not throwing endless hissy fits and temper tantrums at everything Trump is doing. They should ask themselves, what kind of America do we want? Or more importantly, what kind of America do the American people want?

But the crazy drives the party, and they can’t get over Trump, not since he robbed them of Hillary’s win, and so, for ten years, that’s all the democrats have done. Fight Trump.

The wiser, older Democrats know if you scare Americans, you’ll be on the losing side of elections for a while. They don’t want to go back to the dark days of Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern. And yet, can they really pivot to the bland days of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis?

By the time 1992 rolled around, they finally had a winner in Bill Clinton, but they kissed a lot of frogs. They were more than ready to compromise. Bimbo eruptions were nothing compared to zero charisma. He wasn’t exactly JFK, but he wasn’t Walter Mondale either.

The answer won’t be easy. What’s happening now is dismantling the America they built, the America they wanted us all to want. But we didn’t because it was too crazy. It was the death of the American dream. It was a brand new population of slave labor because they insist Americans won’t do those jobs, so let them eat Fentanyl.

They think the Christian Right are the real threat because they read the Bible and believe in Jesus Christ, and that life begins at conception. The crazies on the Left now believe toddlers can choose their gender. They believe breasts should be sliced off the chests of young girls, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Because then, these women can matter because they are the brave warriors fighting the good fight.

Across government and culture, they wanted us to want what they wanted, but America didn’t, and the Left decided they would not let the country pull away and evolve. So it’s driven them crazy, and now, they don’t seem to have any anchor to hold them in place.

It isn’t just that they align themselves behind the worst people and make heroes of men who slap or beat women, or that they ignore the sex offenders exploiting the transgender movement, or that they only care about mass shootings if the doer is a white guy, it’s also that they all must fall in line.

Utopias Disrupted

The first time I realized there was something very wrong with the Democrats was when they forced Al Franken out with no due process. The most prominent Senators in the party participated: Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren.

The party that pretends to be for due process didn’t much care about it back then, throughout the Me Too movement, and for years after that. For them, it was once accused, forever guilty. Due process just got in the way.

I was horrified. I protested as loudly as I could, but nothing I said seemed to matter. What was happening, I wondered.

I would find out over the next four years as I witnessed the crazy and the hysteria consume the party and all of the cultural, political, and corporate institutions it dominated. It hit every industry, from movies to the Oscars to the book world and even poetry.

The crazy got into government, and it’s still there. It’s inside the heads of AOC, Eric Swalwell, Cory Booker, Chris Murphy, and Elizabeth Warren—even the so-called normal ones, even Al Franken now. Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, JB Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, and even George Clooney’s guy, Wes Moore—all interchangeable. Their brand is toxic because they are all crazy, because they have no choice but to push the insane policies Americans just rejected.

Trump’s second win should have been all they needed to know to finally get it. But all that seemed to do was kick the crazy into yet another gear.

Mass Formation Psychosis

In 2020, with the already primed and ready mass hysteria during Trump’s first term colliding with mass panic from COVID something snapped on the Left. It seemed to ignite what Mattias Desmet calls Mass Formation.

Robert Malone then added the word “psychosis,” but it was a diagnosis most weren’t ready for. They killed the messenger.

I was part of it, too, until I wasn’t. I couldn’t go along with the part where you start turning on your friends, neighbors, family, and fellow Americans.

I know mass formation can hit any group; it’s not isolated to the Left. People will say MAGA is an example of that, but it isn’t true. The Right wasn’t traumatized like the Left was. They’re happy people who mostly laugh at the crazy libs.

There is also much dissent allowed, with many taking the opposing view. And that is the only cure for mass formation. Speak sincerely, tell the truth, and most of all, be willing to dissent from the group.

Their mass formation has taken them to very strange places, which has many of us scratching our heads as we watch them lose their minds by the hundreds of thousands over the current thing.

The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has all of them out in force, aligned in common purpose to make a hero and a martyr out of Garcia. Marches, protests, endless TikTok videos.

And then you see them, one by one, all in alignment on social media.

But it is easy for those of us outside the bubble to recognize that there is something more going on here than just protecting Trump’s mass deportations.

There is no such thing as a “sane democrat.”

Because they aren’t fighting for anything but are fighting to preserve the power they once had, they have no choice but to sell to the American people that they care more about illegal immigrants and biological men competing against women in sports. They care more about free trade. They have to sell us exactly what we do not want because they know no other way.

To undo the crazy, to find their way back to sanity, they would have to admit everything they thought was real wasn’t. They would have to recognize that they were caught up in a mass delusion.

But we know they won’t. Cory Booker had to amplify the crazy. AOC takes a bath in it. David Hogg shouts it from the rooftops. The crazy, like the cream, will rise to the top.