Nothing Makes Sense

We're living through history. Our leading institutions seem oddly incurious. Pity. That will likely get a lot of people killed. But at least I include pointers to some recent columns!

When the history of the Summer of 2024 is written, it will run long.  And I’ve been oddly silent.  Here’s why:

There was an assassination attempt on President Trump, about which we still know stunningly little.  Most of our leading institutions, including the government agencies that are supposed to care about such things, seem content to write it off as youthful mischief by an out-of-sorts young man.  In the absence of reliable information and a credible official story, conspiracy theories abound.  It wouldn’t surprise me if one of them turns out to be true.  Which one?  I have no idea.

President Biden, who was obviously lacking the cognitive wherewithal to be President way back when he first announced his run in 2020, performed so poorly in a debate that even those deeply mired in denial could no longer deny it.  Amidst a thoroughly enjoyable leftist civil war, Biden appeared to get hit with something while in Las Vegas, hustled on to a plane, and taken home.  After disappearing mysteriously for a few days, he withdrew from the Presidential race via an oddly depersonalized post on X, gave no explanation, and seemed intent upon continuing as President.  When he finally reappeared, he seemed worse than ever.  What happened?  What’s happening?  In the absence of reliable information and a credible official story, conspiracy theories abound.  It wouldn’t surprise me if one of them turns out to be true.  Which one?  I have no idea.

The UK and France decided that the only way to disempower the nationalists of whom they’re deeply embarrassed was with a red/green alliance.  The victorious communists, anarchists, and Islamists responded by rioting across both countries.  The UK seems poised for full-blown violence—possibly a civil war.  France paused the violence in favor of sabotage and sacrilege while hosting the Olympics.  Has the U.S. really lost its two strongest, longest standing allies?  Do the leaders in France and the UK really not understand what they’ve unleashed?  Are they trying to launch Europe into bitter sectarian violence?  Who knows?  In the absence of reliable information and a credible official story, conspiracy theories abound.  It wouldn’t surprise me if one of them turns out to be true.  Which one?  I have no idea.

Iran has been sending its proxies to slaughter Jews since last October.  Back when we were supposed to be pretending that the U.S. had a functioning President and a coherent foreign policy enhancing American interests, the U.S. response had been to restrain Israel and embolden Iran.  While that never made sense to anyone other than those driven into the mental illness of antisemitism, it kept enough ambiguity on the table for Iran to wonder what, if anything, might provoke a direct American reaction.  With the U.S. completely leaderless, however, all bets are off.  Iran is on the verge of triggering WWIII.  Biden’s response is to ask Israel to wait until a World War has been triggered before acting rather than trying to preempt it.  Is Biden really trying to start a World War?  Would he be content with an anti-Jewish genocide?  Does he think that letting Iran destroy Israel would calm the aggression?  Who knows?  In the absence of reliable information and a credible official story, conspiracy theories abound.  It wouldn’t surprise me if one of them turns out to be true.  Which one?  I have no idea.

Kamala Harris, who is very clearly not the acting President, has inherited Biden’s nomination in the 2024 Presidential race.  The legality of that inheritance, and the transference of campaign money, appear dubious (at best), but none of our leading institutions seem curious.  A compliant press and big tech have cleaned up the record, so that Harris appears to deserve this nomination despite never having done anything: She was never border czar, did not incarcerate black men for minor defenses, did not raise bail funds for Antifa and BLM rioters, did not whore her way into politics, did not have privileged, educated parents, is not from one of Montreal’s nicest neighborhoods, is not descended from slaveholders, never promoted her Indian heritage, holds no policy positions of note, and was certainly not picked as VP because she is a black woman.  Moreover, no member of the press seems to have any questions to ask her.  Why should anyone vote for her?  Turns out, she’s even better than Joe Biden at not being Donald Trump .  What’s really going on here?  Who knows?  In the absence of reliable information and a credible official story, conspiracy theories abound.  It wouldn’t surprise me if one of them turns out to be true.  Which one?  I have no idea.

And that’s pretty much why I’ve been quiet.  I don’t write for the sake of seeing my thoughts on paper (or a screen).  I write because I think that there are ideas and analyses that need to be put into public view—and I just haven’t seen them.  We’re living through a moment in which nothing makes sense, too many theories are more plausible than the official story, and I just don’t have enough data to determine which of the many plausible theories fills the gaps.

I’m relatively confident that something will break open soon, and when it does it won’t be pretty. What will break open? Who knows? If I suggested something, I’d risk being called a conspiracy theorist. Can’t have that!

I have, however, poked my head up to make my voice heard on a few topics:

I wrote a longish piece on the Palestine Endgame for the Claremont Institute’s American Mind.  It basically borrows from my book, An American Vision for the Middle East to show that the entire purpose of the “Palestine Liberation” movement is disruption and antisemitism.  The folks chanting their mantra “there is no alternative to the two-state solution” are delusional.  There are two alternatives.  The humane one is to complete the population exchange begun in the late 1940s and let the Arabs of Western Palestine find decent lives integrated into one of the many Arab states or Muslim majority countries.  The second—which the two-staters have been working toward for decades—is a cycle of increasingly brutal wars culminating in a mass casualty event.  Many of these folks are almost ambivalent as to whether the resulting death toll represents a genocide of the Jews or lets them defame the Jews as genocidaires.  Either one is bad for the Jews, and thus cheers the world’s many antisemites.

On a very different topic—an oddly upbeat note given the state of the world—I began publishing in my new hometown newspaper about our work on higher ed reform.  The Sarasota Herald-Tribune ran my piece describing some of our efforts to turn New College of Florida into a bastion of civil discourse and the free exchange of ideas.

Finally, I joined some friends to discuss religious freedom over on Ericka Reddick’s Generally Irritable podcast.  The specific impetus for the discussion was Harmeet Dhillon’s lovely Sike invocation at the RNC—and the appalling hatred it generated from certain dark corners of social media.  (Disclosure: Harmeet has been a friend for almost 20 years and I’ve been a fan of her work on civil liberties since long before it made national headlines).

So that’s what I’ve been up to this summer…in my spare time.  I’ve never thought that I could save the world, but I do try to understand it.  Sometimes that’s a near-impossible task.

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For more information about Bruce D. Abramson & American Restorationism, visit: www.BruceDAbramson.com

To learn more about America’s Spiritual Crisis and the new religion of Wokeism, see: American Spirit or Great Awokening?  The Battle to Restore or Destroy Our Nation (Academica Press, 2024). 

To learn more about how America’s elites destroyed the republic, see:  The New Civil War: Exposing Elites, Fighting Utopian Leftism, and Restoring America (RealClear Publishing, 2021).

To learn more about the ideology driving today’s anti-American leftism, see: American Restoration: Winning America’s Second Civil War (Kindle, 2019).

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