Why I was wrong about Donald Trump - he's a 'strange attractor' with a mission
"The obvious reason was the physical courage and presence of mind that Trump showed during those deadly and chaotic minutes. It could easily have been otherwise. Most men like to think of themselves as heroes; but when the bullets start flying, they hit the ground and make like a pancake. Simply by appearing dazed and old, Trump might have disqualified himself from elected office.
Instead, he had the composure to put on his shoes, which had fallen off under the crush of Secret Service agents, before turning to the crowd and urging his shocked supporters to "Fight!" It was a gesture for the ages."
"How could he thrive under the relentless persecution of the establishment - the FBI raids, the criminal trials, the lawsuits, the gag orders, the Hitler comparisons?
Events just happen to skew to Trump's advantage. His ostensibly fatal defeat in 2020 turned out to be the luckiest of breaks: The political steamroller that is Trump today can't be explained without reference to the corruption and incapacity of the Biden years.
The terrible fires that devastated Los Angeles shortly after Trump's election became a demonstration, on the national stage, of government by anti-Trumpists - progressives so spellbound by skin color and sexual identity that they forgot to keep the fire hydrants filled.
In a world of politicians floundering in the storm, Trump imposes himself on his surroundings: He is the storm."
"But I have come to see that the mistake was mine. Some dim instinct for survival in the elite establishment allowed it to recognize the form of its destroyer. In the most improbable turn of all, Trump has emerged as the avatar of the digital age, a Hegelian figure bearing the direction of history, the Weltgeist, upon his shoulders. The plodding hierarchies of the federal government have collided with the digital warriors Trump has let loose - among others, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
It isn't a fair fight. The traumatized old regime is being torn apart limb from limb.
I have been wrong before, but this feels final. The odds are massively against Trump replacing the existing system with one of his own - though, of course, there's always that strange attractor force at work.
But there will be no going back to some artificial version of the long-gone 20th century; no reactionary fantasy world imposed by the analog mentality; no online censorship, no debankings, no politicized bureaucracy."
"We have crossed a boundary into the new, and we'll have to deal with the consequences, fair and foul. The old is gone, not with the wind but with Joe Biden, the perfect symbol of senile government.
The causes of this epic collapse are partly structural and partly a matter of random luck. But much of the responsibility - credit or blame, depending on where you stand - falls on human agency, in the person of Donald J. Trump."
https://nypost.com/2025/04/...a-mission/
