Long Live Donald Trump!
Published at 09:53 on 22 September 2025
There recently was lot of wishing for Trump’s early demise amongst many on the Left. This wish was expressed via a flurry of speculation as to the current state of Trump’s health.
Those leftists are letting their emotions get in the way of thinking clearly.
If Trump leaves the building, J.D. Vance will almost certainly take his place. As I wrote not long ago, Vance is highly likely to be a more competent overseer of the economy than Trump. Fascism under Vance is thus more likely to stabilize into a longer-lived regime.
The longer Trump stays in power, the more damage his policies will do to the USA. This is as it should be; the price for electing a fascist should be high. Political culture in the USA needs to learn a painful lesson about touching a metaphorical hot stove, and this lesson is likely to come sooner the longer Trump remains in power.
Yes, this is harsh, but as Churchill once observed “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”