Dear Nick,
…the rejection of the ideological machine?
I am sorry to say you are a fool and have no idea how your political rhetoric is just another part of the ideological machine.
Read Finding Peace from the Culture-History War: A Historiographical Message for the Times, and hopefully you will weep in your repentance. The wise understand, “Jesus wept” (John 11:35)
Kind regards,
Neville.
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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 at 17:30
Subject: Trump’s counter-revolution
To: <[email protected]>
Trump’s counter-revolutionThe 47th President’s inauguration was the beginning of the end of woke
While most US presidents are merely sworn into office, Donald Trump stormed into Washington this week resembling the commander of a liberating army. On Inauguration Day, the US capital felt like an emancipated city as countless thousands of Americans from all corners of the country took to the frozen streets to celebrate with a passion that has seldom been matched. Robbed by the weather of the chance to witness the ceremony in the National Mall, Americans crowded into bars and restaurants where they cheered, applauded, hugged and cried as the President said the things they had all been thinking, but hadn’t been allowed to say. It is too early to describe January 2025 as the end of the war against woke. It was undoubtedly the beginning of the end, or at least it felt like it as I watched the 47th President deliver his inaugural address in a crowded sports bar a kilometre from the Capitol building. Naturally, these were Trump’s most dedicated supporters, people regarded with disdain by the Democrat elite. Yet none seemed in the least deplorable as they stood for the prayers, bowing their heads in respect, before the incoming President began his speech by proclaiming the dawning of a golden age for America. Trump struck a chord with his declaration that he would lead “an administration of patriots”, promising to reclaim America’s sovereignty and that the nation would “soon be greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before.” Their response was jubilation, tinged in so small measure with relief. For a decade or more, the anointed elite had been telling them they should feel ashamed of their country. They had been told that the nation of which they were proud citizens was no better now than it was in the era of slavery. They had been deluged with propaganda to coerce them into believing the opposite of what they thought about gender and race and threatened with sanctions if they dared to contradict. Now, their bottled-up thoughts and emotions were being articulated by no less a figure than the President in his inaugural speech, which would set the tone for the next four years and probably beyond. Trump’s victory marks a counter-revolution against accelerating cultural change. On Monday, he promised to end the social engineering of race and gender in every aspect of public and private life. Echoing Martin Luther King Junior, he promised to forge a colourblind society based on merit. Trump pledge to change government policy to acknowledge only two genders: male and female, a declaration that provoked a loud and emotional standing ovation. A middle-aged woman at the next table appeared to be in tears. In one short sentence, the President had banished the fear of ostracism and denunciation for simply asserting a biological truth. It was the most consequential election address since 2009 when Barack Obama delivered the manifesto for an era of progressive change that would prevail for the next 16 years and was only partially relieved by the first Trump presidency. Obama’s soaring rhetoric obscured his radical intentions. Trump’s speech, by contrast, was a to-do list, outlining concrete objectives by which Americans can hold him to account. It would be foolhardy to judge Trump’s second presidential term a success in his first week. Yet the extent of the onslaught on the woke establishment in only a few days encourages us to hope that the second quarter of the 21st Century won’t be as dismal as the first. A tide of change is indeed sweeping America, as Trump said. Its currents will be felt around the world, not least in Australia, where the restoration of Australia Day by popular acclaim is further evidence that woke ideology is collapsing under the weight of its own absurdity. Peter Dutton can draw courage from President Trump’s uncompromising rhetoric, safe in the knowledge that most Australians are more patriotic and more conservative than the elite could ever conceive. We should not be surprised if the fall of woke is swift. The collapse of the Soviet Union happened that way, as does the end of every regime that draws legitimacy from an enforced consensus around an intellectual delusion. Trump’s return inspires hope that Communist China’s claim to become the dominant world power will not go unchallenged. China’s weaker allies, Russia and Iran, will draw no comfort from Trump’s promise to build the strongest military the world has ever seen. There will inevitably be pockets of resistance, people making plans to sabotage Trump’s second presidency, as they did the first. Yet this time, he has begun decisively, inspired by passion and purpose with a strategy to get things done as early as possible in his term. Trump has surrounded himself with a coterie of brilliant minds capable of outwitting the devious proponents of neo-Marxist revolutionary thought who have undermined America from within. On Monday evening, a panel of unsmiling commentators on CNN, who looked as if they didn’t want to be there, assessed the day’s developments. The Republicans described it as a day of shock and awe, observed one commentator. “Actually, it’s shock and awful,” he said. This week has indeed been awful for America’s elite, the people who presume to be blessed with superior wisdom and morality compared with ordinary mortals. It is a turning point however for the common man and woman, the restoration of the rights of the individual and the rejection of the ideological machine. You’re currently a free subscriber to Reality Bites By Nick Cater. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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Kind regards,
Neville Buch
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Professional Historians Australia (Queensland)
Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES)
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