American Greatness – Red Wave Press https://redwave.press We need more than a red wave. We need a red tsunami. Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:45:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://redwave.press/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png American Greatness – Red Wave Press https://redwave.press 32 32 The Time for Duty, Honor, Country is now: Our Country Needs a Pete Hegseth to Lead the Department of Defense https://redwave.press/the-time-for-duty-honor-country-is-now-our-country-needs-a-pete-hegseth-to-lead-the-department-of-defense/ https://redwave.press/the-time-for-duty-honor-country-is-now-our-country-needs-a-pete-hegseth-to-lead-the-department-of-defense/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:45:57 +0000 https://redwave.press/the-time-for-duty-honor-country-is-now-our-country-needs-a-pete-hegseth-to-lead-the-department-of-defense/ In his final speech in 1962, Five-Star General of Armies Douglas MacArthur spoke to an assembled audience of cadets, active officers, and senior civilians about the necessity of having a military that was prepared to defend the republic, detached from the politics of the day, and who lived by the credo words “Duty, Honor, Country.” General MacArthur, who served and led in the Army for over 50 years, issued a somber warning that rings true to this day:

These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a tenfold beacon in the night: Duty, Honor, Country. You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the Nation’s destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.

MacArthur was telling the cadets who would soon become officers that their charge was to defend the country, not to be entangled in the debates of the day. He reminded the assembled that soldiers who guard the republic must be something different, but also something very important.

Fast forward to right now: after nearly 30 years of being tinkered with and, in many ways, decimated via politics, the armed forces of the United States are at a crossroads and inflection point. Our uniformed services are teetering towards being incapable of defending the country and becoming something General MacArthur warned against and something the founders never envisioned.

The American military and Department of Defense are in desperate need of new, fresh, clear-eyed, and purposeful leadership that is focused on one thing—the defense of the country. America needs someone to bring both a traditional and dynamic style of leadership to the Pentagon and to the armed forces. Pete Hegseth is that someone.

For the better part of 250 years, the American military was a politically agnostic entity. At times, our military would be filled with draftees, and at other times, it would be filled with small groups of volunteers. During conflicts, the government would call its sons to duty to defend the republic. Those sons would be sent home after the wars and after the peace was secure. […]

]]> https://redwave.press/the-time-for-duty-honor-country-is-now-our-country-needs-a-pete-hegseth-to-lead-the-department-of-defense/feed/ 0 229596 Trump Needs to Make an Example of General Milley https://redwave.press/trump-needs-to-make-an-example-of-general-milley/ https://redwave.press/trump-needs-to-make-an-example-of-general-milley/#respond Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:31:53 +0000 https://redwave.press/trump-needs-to-make-an-example-of-general-milley/ In dealing with his enemies in the Deep State, President Trump could follow one of two paths. One would be the path of peace, reconciliation, and forgiveness. This would certainly be easier in the short term and also garner approval from insiders and the media. Alternatively, he could seek to clean house and punish the worst and most insubordinate offenders from his first term.

Which path Trump should take all depends on whether one believes the last eight years were normal partisan squabbles or if one believes that something monumental happened: the obstruction of democratic self-government by a technocratic Deep State.

I believe it is the latter for reasons I have explained before at length. In short, Trump was not allowed to govern, nor treated as other presidents were during his first term. The problem began before Trump, as entrenched bureaucratic interests have worked quietly to control more cooperative and less independent presidents, like Barack Obama and Joe Biden. But the resistance to Trump reflected a mature, ideological, and increasingly self-conscious managerial class that believed they were entitled to rule without regard to electoral results.

Trump was a threat to business as usual. Thus, a cabal of intelligence agencies cooperated to stop him from making changes to foreign policy or scrutinizing the outsized military-industrial complex. Contrary to the media’s dire pronouncements, these insiders were the real threat to democracy and self-government.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, was one of the worst offenders. As documented in Bob Woodward’s book Peril, Milley spent a lot of time after the 2020 election caballing with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and reassuring her that the military would resist certain orders from President Trump. […]

]]> https://redwave.press/trump-needs-to-make-an-example-of-general-milley/feed/ 0 229522 What Is the Administrative State? https://redwave.press/what-is-the-administrative-state/ https://redwave.press/what-is-the-administrative-state/#respond Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:29:16 +0000 https://redwave.press/what-is-the-administrative-state/ Last week in this virtual space, I wrote that Donald Trump would make a renewed effort during his second term to dismantle “the administrative state.” As in his first term, he would employ various strategies to blunt the effects of the administrative apparatus that governs us. He would, for example, disperse some parts of the government outside the overwhelmingly left-progressive swamp of Washington, D.C.

As an aside, I should note that I regard the persistence of Washington as the seat of our government as a serious impediment to the goal of “deconstructing” the administrative state. “It has,” I wrote back in 2022, “long been obvious to candid observers that there is something deeply dysfunctional about that overwhelmingly Democratic, welfare-addicted city.”

It is a partisan sinkhole. Jefferson wanted the capital moved from New York to Washington in part to bring it closer to the South, but also to place it in a locality that was officially neutral. There is nothing neutral about Washington today. The city has some impressive architecture and urban vistas. They should be preserved and staffed as tourist attractions. But the reins of power should be relocated.

I doubt that will happen. Which means that the eternal vigilance that MAGA must maintain around its enemies will have to be redoubled. Trump attempting to govern from Washington will be like Ike trying to undertake the Normandy invasion with half his planners on loan from the German general staff.

Still, there are some symbolic gestures that he and his aides might consider. I have long suggested that the inauguration be held somewhere other than Washington, D.C. There is nothing in the Constitution that requires the inauguration be in Washington. LBJ, remember, was sworn in on Air Force One just a couple of hours after Kennedy was assassinated. When Warren Harding died, Calvin Coolidge was visiting the family homestead in Vermont. His father, a justice of the peace, administered the oath of office in the parlor. I think the next inauguration should be well away from the swamp of Washington. Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach is one venue that springs to mind, but I am sure there are other attractive spots. At a minimum, I hope the inauguration committee will consider having some of the parties elsewhere. A ball in Butler, PA, for example, would not only be celebratory but also serve as a useful reminder of how close Trump came to a fatal encounter with an assassin’s bullet.

But the trouble with “Washington”—I use scare quotes to indicate that we are dealing with spiritual as well as geographical dispensation—is not only its partisan nature. There is also its apparently unstoppably expansionist character. No matter which party is in power, the business of Washington is to make government bigger—forever. Republicans talk about “limited government.” They then sign on to nearly every scheme to make government bigger and more intrusive. Democrats do the same, of course, but they generally skip the rhetorical foreplay about making government smaller. […]

]]> https://redwave.press/what-is-the-administrative-state/feed/ 0 229464 The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity https://redwave.press/the-trump-counterrevolution-is-a-return-to-sanity/ https://redwave.press/the-trump-counterrevolution-is-a-return-to-sanity/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:35:25 +0000 https://redwave.press/the-trump-counterrevolution-is-a-return-to-sanity/ We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016.

The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential.

Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51 percent of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.

Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval.

Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years, a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime, and soaring prices. He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics, and restore deterrence abroad. […]

]]> https://redwave.press/the-trump-counterrevolution-is-a-return-to-sanity/feed/ 0 229128 MTG on Gender-confused Men In Women’s Spaces: The American People ‘Are Sick of this Lie’ https://redwave.press/mtg-on-gender-confused-men-in-womens-spaces-the-american-people-are-sick-of-this-lie/ https://redwave.press/mtg-on-gender-confused-men-in-womens-spaces-the-american-people-are-sick-of-this-lie/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:51:06 +0000 https://redwave.press/mtg-on-gender-confused-men-in-womens-spaces-the-american-people-are-sick-of-this-lie/ The issue of men pretending to be women and demanding access women’s spaces has come to the halls of Congress and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says banning men from women’s restrooms in the Capitol isn’t enough.

The Georgia Congresswoman commented on a proposed resolution introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) that would prohibit lawmakers and House employees from using restrooms that don’t correspond with their biological sex at birth.

Greene said that men should be banned from women’s restrooms in every federal building paid for by taxpayers.

Sarah McBride (D-DE), who was elected to Congress two week ago, was born a male and is the reason for the resolution requiring biological men to refrain from using women’s restrooms.

McBride has lashed out at the resolution, calling it a, “blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.” […]

]]> https://redwave.press/mtg-on-gender-confused-men-in-womens-spaces-the-american-people-are-sick-of-this-lie/feed/ 0 229065 A Post-Mortem: The Failure of the Mainstream Media in the 2024 Election https://redwave.press/a-post-mortem-the-failure-of-the-mainstream-media-in-the-2024-election/ https://redwave.press/a-post-mortem-the-failure-of-the-mainstream-media-in-the-2024-election/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:18:56 +0000 https://redwave.press/a-post-mortem-the-failure-of-the-mainstream-media-in-the-2024-election/ We’re now almost two weeks out from the most consequential and surprising (to many) presidential election of our lifetimes. In many ways, it was even more dramatic than Trump’s victory in 2016. Right up until Election Day, the U.S. mainstream media, along with social media—except on X/Twitter—was predicting a close race with Democrats likely to prevail. After having drunk their own Kool-Aid, it was a mirage, gaslighting on an unprecedented level.

In the weeks leading up to the Trump-fueled Republican rout, it was obvious who the media industrial complex was pulling for: the Democrats and the monumentally flawed Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket. Despite coverage that was more than 90 percent positive for Democrats and 90 percent negative against Republicans, unprecedented election interference from the likes of Jack Smith as part of a lawfare campaign orchestrated by the White House, and the memory-holing of the two Trump assassination attempts the American electorate saw through the leftist media propaganda. Americans went to the polls and delivered a powerful rebuke to Harris, Biden, the Democrats, and especially the media elites, who now have not a shred of credibility left.

And the recrimination as to who was at fault for their stunning defeat comes from every direction. It is the definition and personification of a circular firing squad.

And that brings us to the subject of today’s commentary. With even Fox News having taken swipes at Trump and the Republicans running in 2024, where could one turn for mainstream right-focused, balanced news coverage? Yes, we know that there is News Nation (which is gaining ground on rapidly disintegrating CNN for the number three position in cable news ratings) and One America News. Still, we have a better suggestion: Sky News from Australia.

With a robust online presence, especially on YouTube, Sky News is easy to access. We know because we followed their election coverage during the just-concluded cycle. And among their hosts, who our cousins down under call presenters, four stand out: Rita Panahi (Lefties Losing It), Gabriella Power (The Power Hour), Paul Murray (who has great chemistry with regular contributor Megyn Kelly), and James Morrow (an American living down under). […]

]]> https://redwave.press/a-post-mortem-the-failure-of-the-mainstream-media-in-the-2024-election/feed/ 0 228959 Stirrings of Realignment Even in California https://redwave.press/stirrings-of-realignment-even-in-california/ https://redwave.press/stirrings-of-realignment-even-in-california/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2024 05:26:24 +0000 https://redwave.press/stirrings-of-realignment-even-in-california/ The stunning nationwide victory by Republicans is not shared in California. And in what is now the very unlikely event that Democrats take over the House of Representatives, the path to that upset will run through California.

Trying to get a timely indication of how Californians have ultimately voted in close races is a good indication of just how far removed the state’s election bureaucracy has drifted from the rest of the country. If you go to the election results page on the Secretary of State website for California, the first thing you see is the number of days left until voting results will be officially recognized. As of November 11, the number you see in a great big circle at the top of the page is the number 32. A small fraction of the circle’s perimeter is highlighted, indicating the amount of allotted time to count ballots consumed so far. California allows 38 days from the November 5 election until the final certification on December 13, and the ballot processors use every bit of their time.

How is this normal? Why do we accept this?

As of November 11, California still had nine uncalled seats for the U.S. Congress. Democrats have officially won 36, and Republicans won 7. In terms of potential flips among the remaining close races, five are Republican incumbents defending their seats, three are Democrat incumbents trying to get reelected, and one is an open seat previously occupied by a Democrat. A week has passed since the election, and there are nine congressional races in California that remain too close to call. Remember that number and that date. How many of them will the Democrats win?

To fully appreciate the convoluted absurdity that has become the norm in California elections, consider the Secretary of State’s “unprocessed ballots” page. Again, a week after the election, the Secretary of State reports the “cumulative total number of processed ballots” to be 10,728,985, and the “estimated total ballots remaining” to be 4,953,569. It’s a week after the election, and the state hasn’t managed to count nearly five million ballots. […]

]]> https://redwave.press/stirrings-of-realignment-even-in-california/feed/ 0 228735 The Fault, Dear Democrats, Is in Yourselves https://redwave.press/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/ https://redwave.press/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:12:00 +0000 https://redwave.press/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/ “Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” – Often attributed to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

The Democratic election postmortem immediately descended into public blame-gaming—as expected. When Joe Biden was forced off the ticket in late July, the conspirators issued a party line that he was to be praised as a veritable George Washington—in the spirit of Washington’s farewell address of 1796 about why it was a good thing for the first president not to run for a third term.

So, we were lied to that Joe, the sitting President of the United States, was not forced out by Nancy Pelosi, the Obamas, George Clooney and the celebs, and the billionaire class. We instead were lectured that Biden, magnanimously as the neo-father of our country, selflessly bowed out to ensure Kamala Harris’s elevation as the nominee and, with it, a sure Democratic victory.

But now? After the Democratic train wreck, half the party is suddenly damning George Washington Joe for sticking around too long, even though party grandees cooked up the scheme in the first place of nominating the cognitively challenged Biden in 2020 to shut out his radical (and supposedly unelectable) primary rivals. […]

]]> https://redwave.press/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/feed/ 0 228638 Making America Safe Again Will Be Donald Trump’s Highest Priority as President https://redwave.press/making-america-safe-again-will-be-donald-trumps-highest-priority-as-president/ https://redwave.press/making-america-safe-again-will-be-donald-trumps-highest-priority-as-president/#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2024 02:32:52 +0000 https://redwave.press/making-america-safe-again-will-be-donald-trumps-highest-priority-as-president/ In my opinion, the most important of all of Donald Trump’s promises during the 2024 presidential campaign was to “make America safe again” by restoring American leadership and peace through strength.

This is because Joe Biden will leave Trump with grave national security challenges around the world. U.S. weakness under Biden, Biden’s frivolous foreign policy that designated climate change as the top U.S. national security threat, and major foreign policy failures have caused U.S. and global security to seriously deteriorate since 2021.

The war in Ukraine, caused by Biden’s weak foreign policy and his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, has become a stalemate and long-term war of attrition that could escalate, possibly with Russia using nuclear weapons, if Ukraine expands its attacks into Russian territory. President Biden and European leaders have no plan for a Ukrainian victory or ending the war and have instead promoted an endless war approach of arming Ukraine “for as long as it takes.”

U.S. relations with Russia and China plummeted during the Biden administration. Biden has not spoken to Russian President Putin since before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. There has been little meaningful U.S. diplomacy with China. Biden’s inept foreign policy has pushed Russia into the hands of China as part of a new anti-West axis that includes Iran and North Korea. Chinese military provocations against Taiwan and in the South China Sea soared during the Biden years with no serious response by the United States.

And then there is the Middle East, where Israel is facing a seven-front war in the aftermath of the horrendous October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack. Increased instability in the Middle East since Biden became president was caused by his appeasement of Iran, which is $100 billion richer today due to Biden’s refusal to enforce oil sanctions against Iran. Weak U.S. leadership under Biden also caused tensions to explode in this region. This includes recent missile attacks by Iran and Israel against each other for the first time and huge advances in Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Without a return of American deterrence and a strong U.S. president, the Middle East is facing the prospect of a full-scale Israel-Iran war that could go nuclear. […]

]]> https://redwave.press/making-america-safe-again-will-be-donald-trumps-highest-priority-as-president/feed/ 0 228463 Massie for Sec. of Agriculture? Kentucky Congressman Says He’s Game, if Trump Asks https://redwave.press/massie-for-sec-of-agriculture-kentucky-congressman-says-hes-game-if-trump-asks/ https://redwave.press/massie-for-sec-of-agriculture-kentucky-congressman-says-hes-game-if-trump-asks/#respond Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:10:28 +0000 https://redwave.press/massie-for-sec-of-agriculture-kentucky-congressman-says-hes-game-if-trump-asks/ Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) has been re-elected to his 4th District Congressional seat, and may also be under consideration for a cabinet position if President-elect Trump calls upon him.

In a tweet on X, Massie praised Trump’s successful presidential bid and said Trump’s victory “secured a mandate for big ideas like reversing chronic disease, conserving our land, and empowering American farmers.”

The Kentucky Congressman noted that Trump was able to unite a number of neglected constituencies, including the Amish who wish to be left alone to grow healthy food, to parents seeking greater food freedom in accessing nutritious food for their families.

Massie stated that he is willing to help the newly elected president with agenda to focus on improving the health and well being of Americans but was careful to clarify that, as of yet, he had not received any commitments or offers from the incoming administration.

Massie has been a leading proponent of food freedom in Congress and has proposed a Constitutional Food Freedom Amendment as well as working to empower farmers and legalize local food production. […]

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