Inaugural Trump
Commentary on the 47th President’s Inauguration and First Day
“America's capital city is already wholly depraved,” Mark Steyn writes on Monday’s inauguration. I agree. As I wrote 13 days after the storming of the U.S. Capitol:
If the Capitol storming is an act of insurrection, it is part of a regression that started long ago. The state enslaving the medical profession—nationalizing health insurance—expropriating wealth and private property—enacting law based on skin color, sex and blood—criminalizing emotions such as hate—violating the Constitutional right to travel unmolested by the state—waging unending war which sacrifices soldiers for the sake of nothing—these are only some of the unconstitutional Congressional acts. Congress fundamentally breached and violated itself long before January Sixth.”
Years after the Capitol storming, Donald John Trump—target of at least two unsolved attempts at assassination—took the oath of office again. Listen to and watch this podcast episode (play above video) for my thoughts on this historic inauguration, including a cautionary note, well wishes and celebration of Trump’s inauguration.
Read my letter to America’s 47th president in my LinkedIn newsletter, The Scout, here.
If you’re interested, because it’s relevant to Trump’s election, election claims and his two presidencies, read my essay, “On When Americans Stormed,” about the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot—posted 13 days after the riot—and my 2022 follow-up, “The Storming of the Capitol,” in which I conclude that the riot’s neither incited by the 45th president nor an instance of insurrection.
These essays express my thoughts on that historic event, an important point in America’s decline which cannot—and ought not—be reduced to an oversimplification and trivialization such as the term J6. For the same reason the day of infamy Leonard Peikoff rightly calls Black Tuesday can and ought not be reduced to the term Nine Eleven (9/11): it minimizes the importance of history, philosophy and life.
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