By Wayne Allensworth
In another one of his frequent, nearly inexplicable zigzags, President Donald Trump recently said that Republican House members should vote for legislation calling for the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. But he only conceded the point after it became apparent that a number of Republicans would vote that way regardless. The Senate passed the bill on Tuesday. Recall that Trump went so far as to trash his own supporters when it became clear that his first reversal on Epstein was wildly unpopular with his base. Maybe somebody told him what Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen said about MAGAs’s being on the ropes. I don’t know. Trump has a history of trashing his own supporters and has lately been attacking Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who has backed Trump from the beginning, declaring she can’t be MAGA if she opposes, criticizes or even disagrees with the president. He even stooped so low as to call her a “traitor.” But who is betraying whom? There’s a pattern here, and it’s not hard to see. Trump has attacked Senator Rand Paul, Representative Thomas Massie, both of Kentucky. All three are first, not recipients of AIPAC’s largesse, second, are sharply critical of Israel’s power in and over American society and politics, and third, vote against foreign aid.
It’s “America First” in Trump’s rhetoric, but Israel First, last, and always, when push comes to shove. But, again, as Mitchell observed, the passionate attachment to Israel is wearing very thin, especially with younger voters, who have been abandoned by the establishment. Trump bombed Iran for Israel, has attacked Americans’ First Amendment rights every bit as much as the previous administration when it comes to criticizing Israel, meaning “antisemitism,” and in one of the most head-turning reversals in political history, suddenly claimed that there were no Epstein files. This, after years of his calling for their release. Pam Bondi, FBI chief Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, looked like the proverbial deer in the headlights when trying to explain that one. It would have been comic if it hadn’t been so pathetic, humiliating … and telling: The good ’ol USA is the junior partner, or even vassal, in the “special relationship” with Israel. Bondi even feigned ignorance when asked if Epstein had been working on behalf of a foreign state. Gee, who knew? Well, everybody knew. As Tucker Carlson has noted, the denizens of the Washington Beltway were well aware of Epstein’s ties to Israel and were terrified of speaking of it. I wonder why? It’s quite reasonable to assume that part of Epstein’s gig was gathering compromising material on elites to blackmail and control them. There is fear and trembling in D.C. when it comes to Israel, which strongly indicates something more at work than simply the millions in campaign contributions by Zionists, or even the “you must be a Nazi” Smear Bund supported by what can only be described as the Holocaust Industry
Trump’s brazen turnabout on the Epstein files was a dramatic marker in MAGA’s tailspin into political oblivion. Trump recently touted 50-year home mortgages. He echoes the Davos mantra: “You’ll own nothing and be happy.” His laughably dishonest claims about a “Golden Age” for Americans are undercut considerably by a weak jobs market, his H1B visa betrayal, a catastrophic mountain of public and private debt, and his caving to the Chinese, now saying that allowing 600,000 Chinese students into American universities — in effect, another instance of our children having to compete with the whole world, to say nothing of Chinese espionage — is actually “MAGA.” Huh?
He says he wants a war on drugs but does nothing about the open-air drug markets in cities like Portland and Philadelphia, where so-called NGOs pass out needles to junkies. Drug cartels are using US park land to grow their weed, thriving even on American Indian tribal lands. But Trump wants us to look over there, to Venezuela, not here. Americans are struggling to get decent health care, but a heavily subsidized Israel — subsidized by us — has a comprehensive health care system for its citizens. The Trump administration has done zero, nada, zilch, to curtail legal immigration, a long-term existential threat that will finish off the Great Replacement. There is not going to be any “big, beautiful wall,” and no mass deportations. What’s more, the number of deportations the administration has claimed is likely very inflated. But according to Trump, MAGA is whatever he says it is.
Vice President J.D. Vance, for whom I had held out some hope, recently told Fox News that he supported AI and robotics in the construction industry. Gotta build more houses, as illegals had driven up housing prices. But Vance didn’t say anything about institutional investors, a financial arm of the globalist Blob, buying up housing or building homes for rental, aiming to make renters of would-be home buyers. Remember, “you’ll own nothing and be happy!”. MetLife Investment Management has reported that institutional investors could control 40 percent of houses for rent by 2030. The shareholders in those investments include BlackRock, Vanguard, and Blackstone. And foreign investors bought up 1.9 million US homes from 2014-2024, the National Association of Realtors has reported. The big investors aim to take control of the housing market.
Vance told Fox’s Sean Hannity that all would be well, as some humans would still be necessary to direct the robots that would build new homes, right? They would be well paid. Excuse me if I’m hearing “Learn to code!” All those electricians, carpenters, and bricklayers will learn to operate robotic systems in no time — well, a few of them will. Maybe. So be nice and you might get to move out of mom’s basement, and get a tiny house or rent from BlackRock while you collect your Universal Basic Income and numb yourself with an Internet Matrix fantasy. Meanwhile, six companies own almost all of the major media, and that includes TV, film, Internet outlets, print, and video games. As a senator, Vance broke with his own party to cooperate with then-Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan to reduce the power of the monopolies. And now? Nobody is saying a word about busting up the monopolies, the enemies of a truly free market.
Meanwhile, Zionist agents of influence like Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro are screeching “Nazzzzzi!” at the top of their lungs, as Greene, Massie, Paul, Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Glenn Greenwald, and Candace Ownes call out those “right wing” spokesmen for what they are — foreign agents and subversives. They feel nothing but contempt for Americans, who hate Christianity, and, like podcaster Jennifer Welch, seem to believe that real Americans don’t actually exist, as they allegedly have no culture. Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City has fueled the panic among Zionists.
In the clip above, uber Jewish nationalist Ben Shapiro slams Americans who want to live in their hometowns. Too expensive? “Then move,” saith the Oracle Shapiro, who, of course, has no passionate attachments himself, right? Shapiro also slams lazy Americans for wanting to retire at 65 — or at any time. Don’t they know the bankers need them to keep paying those 50-year mortgages? Mr. Shapiro, kindly go to hell. But first, move to Israel.
Spare me preaching about “antisemitism.” Christians were massacred by the tens of millions by totalitarian regimes in the 20th century and continue to be persecuted today. But we have no word for that. So Christophobia, if you will, doesn’t exist in the world of media make-believe. Zionist Jews want a near monopoly on victim status. It’s a powerful instrument of their influence. And I won’t plead my case by playing the “some of my best friends are Jews” card, either. It wouldn’t do any good. And, yes, I have Jewish friends and hate Nazism as the pernicious evil it was. It’s as stupid to imply I’m calling all Jews mortal enemies as it would be to say normal people who acknowledge that men commit the vast bulk of violent crimes think that all males are criminals. So cut it out.
American Jews who put Israel ahead of America, who have served in the IDF, or who play Pin the Tail on Hitler are not our friends. They should emigrate to their country. Dual citizenship should be banned. At a minimum, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee should be forced to register as a foreign agent. But why should foreign lobbyists freely operate in DC anyway? If foreign governments want to talk to us, they have ambassadors and diplomats. That’s what the State Department is for. One of Greene’s criticisms of Trump was that he was spending way too much time and money on foreign policy. True. She, Massie and Paul are right to vote against foreign aid. The U.S. has no vital strategic interest in the Levant. We should all be asking those questions, and not be smeared by partisans of a foreign power for doing so.
MAGA was compromised from the start. It was compromised by the power of Trump’s Christian Zionist supporters, by the power of the Zionist lobby on the GOP right, and by Trump’s own Jewish ties and sympathies, which he apparently equates with supporting Israel. MAGA was compromised by an ideological, creedal view of what America was and who is American. It was compromised by a love of superpower “greatness” and militarism. But now the MAGA coalition is splitting. So be it. It needed to happen sooner or later. There can be no “America First” without weakening the hold of Zionism on our politics. International Zionism is as much a wing of globalism as the Davos Politburo. It’s as much a subversive influence as the neocon/neoliberal consensus among political elites. That American Zionists saw Trump as a vehicle they could coopt, then steer him toward an “America First” platform that looks an awful like neoconservatism, explains what has happened. The Democrats were growing less effective as a Zionist vehicle as the left split over the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The left, which plays such an important role on the globalist continuum, had increasingly viewed Israel as a “colonial” power. And the Likud wing of Zionism acted accordingly. The neocons bided their time and are now absorbing MAGA. The Republicans are playing the old game of pretending to be patriots. But I don’t think it will work this time.
Is this what you voted for? Disillusioned Trump supporters have asked that question again and again. Well, no, it’s not. Fighting for our country is not “antisemitism.” Americans need to fight as hard for their country as Zionists do for theirs. In American politics, it seems as though the litmus test question for fitness to hold office is “Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?”
The question for us is this: Does America have a right to exist?
Chronicles contributor Wayne Allensworth is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia, and a novel, Field of Blood. For thirty-two years, he worked as an analyst and Russia area expert in the US intelligence community.
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