A lot of ink has already been spilt about Donald Trump’s landslide victory, so I won’t detain you very long. I also won’t bore you by trotting out all the obvious reasons to celebrate: he’s anti-woke, pro-free speech, wants to cut taxes, supports Israel, thinks Net Zero is bunkum and will stand up to China. True, he’s not as hawkish as I’d like on Ukraine and has protectionist tendencies. But you can’t have everything.
As for the hysterical claim that he’s a ‘fascist’, I’m with John Tierney, who wrote a good piece for City Journal a few days ago pointing out that the Biden-Harris administration has engaged in far more authoritarian behaviour than Trump did in 2016-20, prosecuting political opponents, strong-arming social media platforms to silence critics (under the guise of combatting mis- and disinformation) and imposing the greatest restrictions on liberty in America’s history (during the pandemic).
Some people in the Westminster bubble think Trump’s victory is bad news for Britain because he’ll impose tariffs on British imports, but I think that’s unlikely and, in any event, Kamala Harris, like her boss, is no friend of Britain’s. As Pimlico Journal pointed out:
[T]here is little sign that Kamala Harris would be much warmer to Britain. The more fundamental problem is that the Democratic Party, having desecrated much of what remains of ‘WASP’ America, are now turning to attacking Britain itself. Many politically moderate Britons, whether on the centre-left or the centre-right, were taken aback by the apparent hostility of the New York Times to the monarchy – and Britain more generally – after the death of Elizabeth II. They should get used to it, because there is no doubt that, for the Democratic Party, Britain is a symbol of the old, racist, imperialist America, without rather than within. I’m sure you’ve seen the anti-Britain (and often also anti-France) memes on X. These don’t come from nowhere: they are, by now, symbols of something that Britain will not be able to escape in its relations with any Democratic administration. Actual national self-interest on the part of the Americans will increasingly be ignored, as Britain has become part of the broader American culture war. For this reason alone, no intelligent Briton should ever support the Democrats, no matter how boorish they think Donald Trump is.
But to my mind, the biggest reason to celebrate is that Trump wants to take on America’s vast federal bureaucracy – what he calls ‘the Deep State’ and which we call ‘the Blob’. During the campaign, he distanced himself from Project 25, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for wresting control of the administrative state, but J.D. Vance has said he thinks Trump should make it a priority to replace 5,000 civil servants with MAGA loyalists and Trump intends to hire Elon Musk as his ‘efficiency tsar’, tasking him with ruthlessly cutting waste in government agencies in much the same way he fired 80% of Twitter’s workforce without damaging the product.
There’s a good economic argument for doing this since it’s these bureaucrats who are stifling innovation and putting insurmountable obstacles in the path of new businesses. The regulators, as is well documented, are captured by the sectors they’re supposed to be regulating, helping giant corporations preserve their monopolies and who are often rewarded with well-paying jobs by those same corporations when they leave office.
But the best argument for dismantling the Blob is that it has become the main instrument for enforcing woke ideology. The federal bureaucracy is marinated in equity, diversity and inclusion, climate alarmism, LGBTQ+ rights, Critical Race Theory, Gender Identity Theory… all the sacred cows of radical progressive ideology. These civil servants, along with their allies in the academy and the media, are responsible for imposing what is, in effect, a new public morality on American society – a belief system that a majority of Americans have little sympathy for, as the election results made clear. It’s this ideology that’s responsible for the erosion of their freedoms in every aspect of their lives, whether it’s workplace speech codes or restrictions on their use of fossil fuels. Trump rightly understands that if you want to vanquish these torquemadas it’s not enough to defeat your political enemies at the ballot box; you need to defeat the vast army of unelected officials as well. This is the real battle.
If he succeeds – and it’s a big if – he will be an inspiration for rebel leaders all over the world, including the United Kingdom.
Stopping the imposition of this new secular religion by stealth is the most important political battle of our time.
In Trump, we may have found our General Patton.
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I’m more than happy for Pfizer to produce whatever drugs it wants and try to sell them, and for people to buy them should they choose. Also more than happy for people to produce, buy and sell cocaine.
Just don’t give them immunity from prosecution or the stamp of approval from some fake regulatory quango, or provide these drugs free or with a subsidy using my money, or have doctors and nurses paid with my money push them on people.
It’s the pharma companies that sit there at the top of the financial food chain dictating health policy to everything downstream, like the regulators and health services. The MHRA don’t bite the hand that feeds… if Pfizer or AstraZeneca say jump they say “how high?”. The drugs they produce are only approved pending INTERNAL trials (probably no risk assessments) with no external regulation.
In the scenatrios you describe we also need a means of internalising to the suppliers and/or users the costs which would otherwise fall on the rest of us.
Why, for example, should the public at large bear the risks of serious injury or death from a cannabis user who has developed mental illness. Why should we have to pay the costs of treatment and care for such people (and also likely the cost of continued consumption because it would be treated as their right to continue to use even when in secure institutions).
That’s a fair point though I am not in favour of giving free drugs to prisoners- in fact I am not sure I’d want prisoners to use drugs or alcohol at all, even in the unlikely event they could pay market price.
I am now almost paranoid about anything that smells of socialism, but I think it’s a reasonable argument you are making. On the other hand lots of people use drugs and alcohol and do no particular harm to society.
I think you are presupposing that legislation would lead to a significant increase in use and that the increase would lead to more collateral damage.
Perhaps there is evidence for that, though from my experience getting hold of illegal drugs seems very easy and most people who want to are able and willing to do so.
Putting the cost partly onto the supplier is a possible approach though it socialises the cost across a user base many of whom may not cause societal problems.
I agree. Key point is that the tax payer is funding this.
Lots of medicines are not available for free because of failing the cost/benefit test (the job of NICE).
The problem with this approach is that the means by which these vaccines reached full authorisation was irregular to say the least, and PMS is hopelessly in denial about the possibility that sudden cardiac deaths, neuropathies and turbocancers could be vaccine related.
We can’t be in a situation that Pharma gets to put dangerous drugs out there and just let the public choose. We are watching the next health disaster unfolding now with weight loss drugs with this approach.
The only way to restore public trust now, as Bhattacharya has proposed, is the equivalent to a full Morbidity & Mortality conference on what has gone wrong. Only then can we move forward to a proper regulatory framework, shorn of all commercial influence.
A preventive medicine physician, employed at the FDA as Deputy Commissioner since 2019, recants at a recent “Make America Healthy Again” round table…
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/top-fda-official-admits-she-refused
…One of the most powerful figures at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has admitted she refused the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine while pregnant—even as her agency promoted it as “safe and effective” for all pregnant women.
“Knowing what I knew—not only about nanotechnology, about medicine, about the medical countermeasures—but also having a very strong and firm grounding in bioethics… there were many things that were not right.”
Medical autonomy for me but not for thee.
Freedom Means Medical Autonomy
Carry on rock fishing as much as you like, is my opinion, but how about just leaving foetuses alone?
The idea that “knowingly reprogramming the dividing cells of a foetus to produce a toxic protein, such as by injecting Covid mRNA vaccines into pregnant women, would require overwhelming evidence of safety before even being considered” is totally repugnant, even leading aside the overwhelming evidence there was no ‘pandemic’. There is nothing to consider, in my opinion.
The Exposé recently published the article “Childhood vaccines cause autism, a review of 850 studies concludes” (https://expose-news.com/2025/05/27/childhood-vaccines-cause-autism/), admonishing the US recommended 76 vaccinations (the first being given one hour after birth).
How about reconsidering the whole idea of whether vaccination is ever a good thing?
Agreed. The medical fraternity has shown time and time again that they can’t be trusted.
Bodily autonomy is one of the CORE natural rights (these predate the often nonsensical concept of “human right” – such as, the right to family life. You fucking what?)
Without bodily autonomy, your body belongs to the state, they can do to it what they want, which means – you are a slave.
The author appears to have no idea of the real harm that these toxic mRNA injections have caused across the Western world. We are hopefully just beginning to get the people to understand that we have been subjected to an unprecedented crime against humanity. By March 2021 VAERS and Yellow Card data was screaming stop, but the regulators, bought and paid for by Pharma were silent and complicit, withholding data, obfuscating and lying where necessary to maintain the “safe and effective” mantra.
Medical ethics established over a hundred years ago were thrown out of the window. First do no harm was thrown into the waste paper bin, and informed consent and bodily autonomy sneered at.
Medical journals disgraced themselves and trashed their reputation. The media appeared to be in receipt of significant globalist elite donations in return for propaganda and silence. Coordinated instructions and control were peddled out in lock step across countries. We don’t need a Covid enquiry burning millions of taxpayers money. Nothing less than Nuremberg 2 is required and the total ruination of the Big pharmaceutical companies to pay for the £Bns in compensation. Fraud makes indemnity null and void.