By January 8 2021 Donald Trump had lost. Joe Biden was president elect. Yet only two days prior, Trump had incited a riot at the US Congress to stop his vice president, Mike Pence, ratifying the Electoral College’s count, and he still hadn’t conceded defeat.

Weeks later, just days short of Biden taking his oath of office, Trump was impeached by Congress for his subversion. This year he was convicted for fraud.

But none of that matters because Trump was never indicted for treason.

And so, Donald Trump’s name is on the US ballot for President of the United States again. On November 5 it will appear on TV screens as votes are tallied in a race that Polymarket is giving a 64% chance of him winning. Polymarket is a futures-based prediction market in which shares are bought and sold in world events, much as stock derivatives are traded on the Dow and NASDAQ. It currently has $2.7 billion dollars riding on the outcome.

Which is crazy, right?

On January 8 2021 I wrote an essay titled: “Yesterday Trump Went Mad Today He Woke to His Ruin”. It was so obvious—I declared that “Trumpism is over”. For a couple of years after it seemed that the Republican Party had indeed woken to itself—and the business of true free market capitalism and the American Dream were back on the agenda.

How did Trump get this second coming?

In the 2016 presidential race, I ruled out Hillary Clinton. I was correct. Her mismanagement of America’s foreign policy as secretary of state was egregious. Her promise during that election, that as POTUS she’d let her husband and former POTUS Bill Clinton—of sex scandal infamy—run the economy because “he’s good at that stuff, uh huh”, finished off any credibility she had.

Therefore, in the wake of two Obama administrations in which the Global Financial Crisis went unpunished, illegal immigration soared and racial unrest in the form of Black Lives Matter exploded, Trump won.

Trump gave America chaos. He mismanaged Covid-19. He threw the Capitol Police and tear gas at BLM protestors. His pro-Putin reticence over Ukraine, his parliament of fools in the White House, his failure to have “Mexico pay” for the border wall wore thin with US voters and me. So, I cheered Biden, whose age and the pressure of the Oval Office subsequently cut him down.

Under the weight of a booming illegal migration from the Americas and the Mideast, of homelessness and soaring crime, Biden lost control. Covid was still unaddressed as both a medical and supply-side economic crisis. Hence revenue pressures forced Macy’s in Union Square San Francisco to close its doors. Numerous other landmark retail, hotel and food institutions I’d known as a tourist to the States vanished. Stories of putrid filth covering inner city streets made world news. Barriers around Washington DC landmarks that I loved loomed. In an outbreak of political correctness (now known as “Woke”) the Washington Redskins were no more; the Cleveland Indians were gone. Both the transgender debate and school district book banning became notorious.

Above all, an ominous social discontent platformed by China’s TikTok; by wars in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Mali and Nigeria; by Islamism in Iran and Qatar—and finally by the rape of Israel on October 7 2023 by the Iranian proxy Hamas shattered the dreams of peaceful Union. As in Kentucky 1860, then over slavery, the first skirmishes of a new US civil war rose: this time over the very soul of America as terror flags waved from the West Coast to the East and the police did nothing.

This was perfect fodder for a man who traded on unrest and thrived on conflict: who relished a bare-knuckle fight. Trump-Republicans were reinvigorated. Donald Trump may have been 78 but his opponent Biden was verging on 81. Trump remained the blustering caricature Americans knew. But Biden appeared senile. He couldn’t handle a debate.

Indeed, while the Democrats left Biden in power, they denied him a second term—a signal of party incompetency that was not lost on America. When his vice president, Kamala Harris, won the Democratic presidential nomination undecided voters knew that she was unprepared.

That’s why Trump, having done nothing since, is an electoral threat to Harris five days out from November 5.

Before we end this story, though, there’s an ugly elephant in the room that needs addressing. That, of course, is antisemitism.

Despite Trump having a Jewish son-in-law, a daughter who converted to the faith and Jewish grandchildren, his ties to America’s neo-Nazi Alt-Right are known. They were active at the January 6 Capitol riots.

Still, it is only due to Trump that America’s Israeli embassy currently sits in Jerusalem. It’s because of Trump that peace exists between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. It’s because of Trump that peace looms between Israel and Saudi Arabia. And Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is referred to as a “Trumpist”.

The antisemitism that’s sweeping America, however, is a different beast. It’s Democrat Party-born: carried by left-wing agitators, communist thugs, Black and LGBTQ+ activists, artists, and most notoriously—by college campuses and their propagandist academics parroting “decolonisation” as the current fad.

It’s vicious, unrelenting, indefensible and ridiculously illogical—for most who’ve been marching in cities and boycotting Starbucks have no idea what they’re chanting or why.

They’ve just been gaslit into hating Jews—and that includes screaming at children, defacing homes and protesting at synagogues—and their puppet masters are a cadre of Iranian and Qatari-funded Islamists who are simply milking the whole for grift—and ultimately, for the ascent of misogyny.

The sad manifestations of this stain are the Left-run sexual assault clinics who’ve taken the anti-rape “Me Too” movement and mutated it into “Me Too Unless You’re a Jew”.

Sadder still are the Jewish activists who for decades have given themselves to the Democratic Party; its causes of anti-discrimination, anti-poverty, education, art, medicine and science but who are now being pushed out by the rabid Left unless they renounce Israel. Some find it easy. The worst antisemites have always been Jewish. Thing is, this is pure racism.

Kamala Harris should have been a shoo-in on November 5. Instead, she and the Democrats have resurrected Donald Trump and in their division of America he may just become president again.

What looks certain is that given the state of illegal immigration and its questions of voter-registration in America, Trump will not lose without a fight worse than 2020-21.

The worry is that absent a unifying voice, a personality able to instil calm, beloved by all, the US may ignite, and I can’t think of one.

At 78 what does Trump have to lose after all? Many more bad foreign actors than existed in 2020 would be quite interested in that fight’s outcome.

© 2024 Adam Parker.