Trump and Vance Need to Articulate the Stakes of the 2024 Race
If you haven’t seen this video making the rounds on the internet of Vivek Ramaswamy noting that Donald Trump’s opponent isn’t Kamala Harris or even the Democrat Party but rather the machine that controls her, you really should.
In fact, here it is. This is only about three minutes, so have a look, and then we’ll talk about this below:
WATCH: Vivek Ramaswamy Delivers The Greatest Breakdown of the 2024 Election in Under Three Minutes — ‘We Are Running to Dismantle a System’ | @VivekGRamaswamy
This is mastery. The perfect articulation of what is currently transpiring in America.
Vivek Ramaswamy just delivered… pic.twitter.com/LsPHttvnZM
— Overton (@overton_news) September 14, 2024
Ramaswamy has been talking about this for a good six weeks or so. He’s especially kicked the “machine” narrative into high gear in the wake of the Democrats’ coup, or shift, to Kamala Harris as their candidate.
And “machine” is a very good word.
It’s a good word because today’s Democrat Party is a collection of urban political machines controlling almost all of the major cities in America. They’re all alike, they’re funded in all the same ways, they’re all pushing the same atrocious, soul-and-body-killing policies, and they all generate the same failed results in a manner highly suggestive of purposeful action rather than mere incompetence.
This column talks often about weaponized governmental failure, which is a modern explanation of the old Curley Effect: urban Democrat political machines intentionally refuse to adequately perform the basics of municipal governance because by neglecting potholes, proper law enforcement, fiscal sanity, constitutional governance, drainage, and education, they run off all the middle-class voters who would hold them accountable for that poor performance, and the electorate that is left is either rich, in which case they have a propensity for embracing radical socialism as a decadent penance for the economic sins of their forebears (and can pay a la carte, as in private neighborhood security or private schools for their kids, for city services that are no longer adequate), or desperately poor and thus easy to govern with offerings of crumbs and midnight-basketball-style idiocies.
It’s a villainous blueprint, but those machines are all built on it.
But the Democrat Party that is attempting to foist Kamala Harris on the American public isn’t just a collection of local machines. It’s also a cog in an overarching national, political, cultural, and economic machine that transposes itself over our national life.
Call it the managerial class as Ramaswamy does. Call it the ruling elite. Call it the Deep State. It’s the organization, or guiding spirit, that has captured most of those people living their lives close to power in this country.
Consider Dana Bash’s atrocious interview with JD Vance on Sunday, in which halfway through, Vance was forced to ask her if she’d rather ask him questions and he give her answers than to have a debate. The answer, of course, was the latter — because Bash isn’t an objective journalist but instead a cog in the Rube Goldberg propaganda contraption that is the legacy corporate media. Dana Bash doesn’t have any independent or objective thoughts; those were squeezed out of her long ago. Her job is to spew the machine’s narratives, filtered through whatever directives everyone else in the legacy corporate media has also received.
There’s a reason these people sound so eerily alike.
And there’s a reason why reason and accountability are so foreign to them. Take Lester Holt, for example, who in reporting on the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump in only 64 days took pains to claim that it’s Trump’s overheated rhetoric about Haitian cat-eaters that somehow is the cause of him enduring more assassination attempts than Harris has endured media interviews.
Nobody with an unbiased, objective mind comes to such a conclusion. But propagandists do. And that’s what Holt is — and why he’s gone as far in media as he has.
Ramaswamy notes that the machine isn’t just in control of legacy media. It’s in control of social media, minus Elon Musk’s X and a few minor platforms. It’s in control of corporate boardrooms, put under the thumb of the regulatory state by multiple means during Barack Obama’s eight years in office while America’s small and mid-size firms were gutted and now held in stasis by woke institutional capital outfits like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard.
Certainly the machine controls the administrative state.
The machine has little feeling, but that isn’t to say it has none. In fact, it has one: it hates.
The machine hates you. It hates your individuality and your capacity for rational, critical thought. It hates the idea that you might come to conclusions different than the one the machine has decided for you. That’s why the machine calls you racist for objecting to the mass migration of Haitians to America. Haiti isn’t a race, of course; it’s a nationality, but more importantly, it’s a culture and a failed one. There is a reason why Nigerian-Americans perform better economically on average than “white” Americans do but Haitians do disastrously badly by comparison.
In America, almost every single narrative spread by the credentialed elite falls apart upon the slightest scrutiny. And these are the stakes of this election: whether we ordinary Americans, those of us not being given aid, comfort, and status by the elite machine, are up to the task of ruling ourselves, or are we satisfied to devolve from citizens to subjects.
I wish Trump had begun defining the race in those terms, as Ramaswamy has.
Dan Proft says the same thing, and notes that Vance perceives this binary with clarity and has an opportunity to drive it home during the vice presidential debate with the villainous reprobate Tim Walz:
He’s right, of course, and there is reason to expect that Vance will do just that.
But if Trump would do it, and note that this fight against the elite machine is the reason he’s managed to attract Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard across the aisle while Harris is embracing the endorsements of such loathsome machine-adjacent Republicans as Adam Kinzinger, the Lincoln Project pedophile enablers, warmongering neocons like Bill Kristol, and Liz and Dick Cheney, we could reshape America’s understanding of its current politics.
In a way that is clear and objectively accurate.
This shouldn’t even be controversial. The machine should be forced to defend itself on terms everyone can understand. Instead, it hides behind Trump Derangement Syndrome while assassins chase Trump with rifles, or behind identity politics as race relations and mental health decline.
The machine is killing us, because we’re letting it. Flawed though Trump might be, he is our only possible antidote to the machine. That is the chief reason he must win in November. It’s time he began making that clear.
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