NEWTRUMP Foreign Policy: Is it a Trainwreck? By Karen Kwiatkowski

Two generations ago our rulers had more leeway. They lied through their teeth and the truth was uncovered much later. Nowadays, we see reality as it happens. From Karen Kwiatkowski at lewrockwell.com:

Aside from enforcing existing US immigration law and introducing a tariff and trade reset with 100 countries, Trump 2.0 is largely Biden with a functional spinal cord, Obama with a third term, a self-confessed McKinley for the 21^st Century.  Despite the particular lack of respect granted the 9^th and 10^th Amendments, as the center dissolves and weakens, those two are our walkaway cards, served by the First and Second Amendments, but not subservient to them.  Walk we will, joining other Americans in a massive ongoing movement of decentralization of place, economy, and thinking that echoes earlier migrations from Europe to North America.  Now we travel away from urban and Washingtonian command and control towards a million Walden Ponds.

The impoverished, the risk takers, the independent thinkers, the entrepreneurs and the sincerely religious packed up from the Old World and set sail for a new one they hoped would be more to their liking –  including a Republic that from its very gestation was uncertain about its fundamental and limited role in American society.  In 1830, John Adams wondered if the unusual vagueness of the so-called “common defense and general welfare” clause in the Constitution was undefined because of an innocent “inattention to the phraseology” or something far more sinister.  He goes on to write, defining the fundamental cause and effect of the war between the states yet to come:

…without an equal watchfulness over the great landmarks between the General Government and the particular Governments, the danger is certainly not less, of either a gradual relaxation of the band which holds the latter together, leading to an entire separation, or of a gradual assumption of their powers by the former, leading to a consolidation of all the Governments into a single one [italics added].

Decentralizing forces opposing the totalitarian might be only philosophical, or somewhat political, or simply the second law of thermodynamics as applied to human energy.  In fact, they are all three.

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