I was writing the post in the Hall thread about the new author of the Mitch Rapp novels it got me thinking about the political thriller type books and the protagonists who drive them I most enjoy and what those have in common.
Mitch Rapp (from the series begun by Vince Flynn), Jack Ryan and Ryan, Jr., and James Reece (Jack Carr) all have very similar characteristics. Principled men fighting the forces (and hidden threats) aligned against us while simultaneously battling the corruptive forces of a self-serving bloated federal bureaucracy, the interests of which are often in opposition to the American values in which I still deeply believe.
It occurred to me that my fervent wish that there really is a Rapp, a Ryan, or a Reece out there fighting for the American ideals I love is tempered with with the overpowering suspicion that our political elites and governmental agencies (CIA, FBI, DOJ, etc) are completely compromised.
The globalist/socialist/communist agenda that grew out of the hippie movements of the 60s has taken root in Washington as those godless former flower children spruced up their appearance, hid their true intentions and interjected themselves into the political realm. They are traitors to the very principles on which this country was founded. They don’t love it. They hate it and all it stands for. It’s not party specific although most are democrats. Pelosi. Schumer. Schiff. Waters. Clyburn. Clinton. Obama. McCain. Romney. Pence. Their hateful, divisive, anti American rhetoric has spawned an entire generation of offended and offensive brainwashed, unintelligent perpetual victims who blame America for everything. See AOC.
My hope that there might still be a few Rapps, Ryans, or Reeces in the world is what originally drew me to Trump and has kept me loyal since. The more they came after him with hysterical hyperbole and fraudulent legal maneuvers, the depths to which they sunk to steal the 2020 election (obvious to anyone with at least two currently functioning brain cells), and the coordinated media assault on Trump (like something straight out of the USSR or Nazi Germany) did nothing but convince me they are terrified of his potential to expose a) their rampant corruption and b) the perversion and depravity that exists among their ranks.
Trump, in a way, became a Ryan/Reece/Rapp stand in,’ fighting to re-establish American optimism and ideals that had been slowly being strangled since the end of Reagan’s term. Not only were our enemies on foreign soil but they were also arrayed against him in Washington.
He won’t, because he is at heart a pragmatic negotiator and truly does not want to bring the entire government down, but I wish he would go scorched earth. Leave none standing. Put Biden in prison where the grifter belongs. Expose and bury Pelosi, Swallowell, Schiff, and rest of that evil cabal. Open the books on the Epstein client list.
My hope is he will at least do some of that. Be the hero we need.