That President Trump was exactly the right person at exactly the right time in exactly the right place to save our Constitutional Republic, especially in regard to the catastrophe which would have ensued had Harris been installed in 2025. In the grand scheme of things, DJT is likely third on the list of America's most important Presidents. God bless the lovely bully! :-)
I remember hearing from a friend of mine sitting in my car one night as he told me in a low voice that Trump would be the most consequential president since Roosevelt, maybe even Lincoln. This was before Butler, before the election of 2024, and I thought the guy was delusional. Today I hail him as a prophet. Yes, it's Washington, Lincoln, and Trump. What a time we live it! And no one knows that better than our dear Sasha Stone.
What a time we live in, indeed, Mr. Lewis. You sound wise enough to appreciate and enjoy it. With no offense to Vance, Rubio, etc., we will not see the likes of DJT again anytime soon.
Spot on, Paul!👍👍 While there will always be some lunatics who are haters, Trump has been awesome. If his actions in getting the Israeli hostages released don’t make one proud to be an American, nothing ever will.
Sasha you have a gift of taking events and crafting a perfect observational summary with words and video clips. Your beautiful essays remind me of Dustin Hoffman’s 1989 Oscar Speech for best actor in Rain Man
In his acceptance speech for Rain Man, Hoffman spoke passionately about the craft of acting, comparing it to the effort of a great violinist like Itzhak Perlman, emphasizing the difficulty of making a performance look effortless and "getting it right" to create an authentic scene.
Hoffman said:
"I was sitting in a box with [director] Barry Levinson, and there was a man sitting in front of us who was a great violinist, Itzhak Perlman. And I said to Barry, 'You know, I’m very nervous, I don’t think I’m going to win, but if I do, I’m going to say something about what it feels like to try to become another person.' Because we were talking about how Itzhak Perlman makes playing the violin look so easy, and yet we know how difficult it is.
Sasha, you have taken a difficult period in our country and captured the "Trump era".
My sister in law will attend a local ‘No Kings’ protest rally this weekend. She is Gen X aged. I also know some retired Boomers in my neighborhood who will also go. All white, all upper class. I don’t know what to say to these people. So I stay silent whenever politics should arise. The best I can tell is they are upset over the ICE images they see on TV. My wife is sympathetic to her sister. Telling me ‘how do you know all the ICE deportations are actually illegals? What if some are not illegals?’
That’s what I’m surrounded by here in deep blue PNW. I’m really happy with my vote for Trump and how he is working to transform our country. Really, really pleased.
Tell them we’ve had a No Kings day every year for the last 249 years. We celebrate it on the 4th of July. And if Trump were truly a king, you can bet your blue hair dye there would be no protests. So, enjoy your street theater! That’s what I would say. It’s what I told my brother anyhow, who’s also going. He didn’t take it very well.
Sir, America is at war. We are approaching the Fort Sumpter stage where Americans will fire on Americans. The last eight years have been the Cold Civil War.
You are facing a choice, I'm afraid. Your country or your family. In the Civil War family killed family, a man shot his cousin, raped his aunt, burned his brother's home.
Your wife has made her decision and she will not be persuaded. I know. I have lost the love of my wonderful daughter.
Thank you, Sasha, for this amazing post. You are so right it has not been easy being a Trump supporter. I am really tired of the BS. I just had a neighbor tell me that she would never ever live in Florida because she couldn’t stand to be in a state that voted for Donald Trump. My cousin hates him with a passion along with many of my other family members. They just don’t get it. Myself I am so happy he got reelected and my anxiety about what’s going on in the world today is ameliorated by knowing he’s in the White House. I find him very comforting.
Great post, Sasha! As an amateur historian I am always looking for and arguing with liberal friends about good comparisons for Trump, both his unique personality and accomplishments. Two come to mind. Andrew Jackson, who had an obnoxious, aggressive personality amplified by drinking (while Trump does not) and Teddy Roosevelt, who also was larger than life, courageous, patriotic, boisterous, highly opinionated and tried to win a second term twice (whereas Trump won his second chance). Teddy also grew up wealthy, though, like Trump, he rejected the trappings of his wealth at a time when it was popular to be “gilded”. But neither Jackson nor Roosevelt had Trump’s accomplishments. Newt Gingrich has him at 3rd or 4th in his ranking of great Presidents behind: Washington, Lincoln and FDR
Well said. Really well said. Except I wasn't exactly a fan of Lincoln or FDR, but I get it and I'm not fighting with you. You make a great point still. And Sasha is tremendous.
By the way, Irish Andy always had his noon-time whisky, "to the last of them," he'd toast to his many detractors!! A lot of bad, but Irish Andy was quite colorful and resolved. William Wallace was his hero, and though unsucesfully and captured with a knife scar for it, he fought against the British at the tender age of 13. Which kind of formed his whole hate for the British. He was the Hero of New Orleans for a reason. Side bar, yet of course.
Sometimes in our lives we get busy and distracted and forget to realize how lucky we are. Reading a wonderful essay like this; I am just so overwhelmed with gratitude that Kamala Harris is not our president.
I will never understand the hatred for the man, or how the Left, at least those members of it who have consciences, can live with the grotesque sinfulness of their neverending attempts to defame Trump. It may be that they have burned their consciences out.
Consider the appalling specimens of inhumanity which we all saw a month ago when Charlie Kirk was shot. Obviously, none of them has a functioning conscience.
The Right just wants to be allowed to live out our lives. But what would the Left be without its permanent campaign to make us all over into their hideous images?
I'm seventy - three, and have seen enough of life to know that it would require an idiot to say that Trump voters are impeccably virtuous, but the contemporary Left - and I am certainly not original in saying the following, though I think I had noticed it before I learned that others had, as well - occupies the world's waiting room for Cluster B cases.
"I will never understand the hatred for the man" - truly it is astounding and a pathological condition now. Yes it manifested as a surge of hate posthumously against Charlie Kirk, R.I.P. I think it also manifested in the hatred against the un-jabbed, too, but so much more concentrated. These people have really lost the plot.
Trump has far, far exceeded my expectations. In my heart and head in 2016 I knew he would be good for America, but I did have reservations. With all of the Left's, the media the institutional and Hollyweird attacks, it was difficult to hold firm to my convictions. They planted nothing but seeds of doubt and the harassment was non-stop, both of Trump and his supporters.
Trump has proven himself time and time again. He learned much in those 4 years out of office and it shows. I haven't agreed with everything Trump has done, but he has been a most pleasant surprise. God has blessed Trump and answered many prayers for the turning of America and I pray He will continue to do so.
What an amazing piece, Sasha! A tour de force that you are able to write like no other person!
"This has never been the story of the Fourth Reich and the Second Confederacy. This has always been a love story, a grassroots movement, a basket of deplorables, standing by the only guy who saw them at all, let alone the guy who would fight for the America they want."
I write from Australia, remembering back to the 2016 election and how distressed I was after seeing Hillary Clinton's speech in which she referred to Trump supporters as a "basket of deplorables". I woke up in the middle of the night agitated and I got down on my knees and I prayed, earnestly
"Please God, make many of those so called deplorables as exercised in their spirit as I am that they are not deplorables, and that they have a vote, and they must save America from the oblivion that will follow if she is elected. Because as America goes, the rest of he world will go, including us here in Australia."
I felt like God had answered my prayer the next day - although the spiritual battle is still going on.
If any of you you ever feel prompted to pray for President Trump, don't ignore the prompting - do it right away, briefly but earnestly!
Truman LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS' TOOL; Says When Bigots, Profiteers Get Control Of Country They Select ' Front Man' To Rule DICTATORSHIP STRESSED
Charges Nominee Accepts ' Master Race' Theory; Truman Denounced In Unusually Bitter Terms The Republican Party And Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower New York Times Oct. 18, 1952
That President Trump was exactly the right person at exactly the right time in exactly the right place to save our Constitutional Republic, especially in regard to the catastrophe which would have ensued had Harris been installed in 2025. In the grand scheme of things, DJT is likely third on the list of America's most important Presidents. God bless the lovely bully! :-)
I remember hearing from a friend of mine sitting in my car one night as he told me in a low voice that Trump would be the most consequential president since Roosevelt, maybe even Lincoln. This was before Butler, before the election of 2024, and I thought the guy was delusional. Today I hail him as a prophet. Yes, it's Washington, Lincoln, and Trump. What a time we live it! And no one knows that better than our dear Sasha Stone.
What a time we live in, indeed, Mr. Lewis. You sound wise enough to appreciate and enjoy it. With no offense to Vance, Rubio, etc., we will not see the likes of DJT again anytime soon.
Spot on, Paul!👍👍 While there will always be some lunatics who are haters, Trump has been awesome. If his actions in getting the Israeli hostages released don’t make one proud to be an American, nothing ever will.
Copy that. The lunatics will not be affected by the hostage release, I am afraid, since they are no longer grounded in everyday reality.
Sasha you have a gift of taking events and crafting a perfect observational summary with words and video clips. Your beautiful essays remind me of Dustin Hoffman’s 1989 Oscar Speech for best actor in Rain Man
In his acceptance speech for Rain Man, Hoffman spoke passionately about the craft of acting, comparing it to the effort of a great violinist like Itzhak Perlman, emphasizing the difficulty of making a performance look effortless and "getting it right" to create an authentic scene.
Hoffman said:
"I was sitting in a box with [director] Barry Levinson, and there was a man sitting in front of us who was a great violinist, Itzhak Perlman. And I said to Barry, 'You know, I’m very nervous, I don’t think I’m going to win, but if I do, I’m going to say something about what it feels like to try to become another person.' Because we were talking about how Itzhak Perlman makes playing the violin look so easy, and yet we know how difficult it is.
Sasha, you have taken a difficult period in our country and captured the "Trump era".
Thank You
My sister in law will attend a local ‘No Kings’ protest rally this weekend. She is Gen X aged. I also know some retired Boomers in my neighborhood who will also go. All white, all upper class. I don’t know what to say to these people. So I stay silent whenever politics should arise. The best I can tell is they are upset over the ICE images they see on TV. My wife is sympathetic to her sister. Telling me ‘how do you know all the ICE deportations are actually illegals? What if some are not illegals?’
That’s what I’m surrounded by here in deep blue PNW. I’m really happy with my vote for Trump and how he is working to transform our country. Really, really pleased.
The are upset because they are brainwashed lemmings.
Tell them we’ve had a No Kings day every year for the last 249 years. We celebrate it on the 4th of July. And if Trump were truly a king, you can bet your blue hair dye there would be no protests. So, enjoy your street theater! That’s what I would say. It’s what I told my brother anyhow, who’s also going. He didn’t take it very well.
Sir, America is at war. We are approaching the Fort Sumpter stage where Americans will fire on Americans. The last eight years have been the Cold Civil War.
You are facing a choice, I'm afraid. Your country or your family. In the Civil War family killed family, a man shot his cousin, raped his aunt, burned his brother's home.
Your wife has made her decision and she will not be persuaded. I know. I have lost the love of my wonderful daughter.
The decision, is yours, Sir.
Thank you, Sasha, for this amazing post. You are so right it has not been easy being a Trump supporter. I am really tired of the BS. I just had a neighbor tell me that she would never ever live in Florida because she couldn’t stand to be in a state that voted for Donald Trump. My cousin hates him with a passion along with many of my other family members. They just don’t get it. Myself I am so happy he got reelected and my anxiety about what’s going on in the world today is ameliorated by knowing he’s in the White House. I find him very comforting.
“We cultivated victimhood and fragility, which made us ill-equipped to deal with the rise of Donald Trump.”
Sheer genius from Sasha!
Let’s make her famous. Share her material, properly attribute it to her, make sure many others are made aware of her very important truth telling.
For a quarter of a millennium now the USA has stood,
A beacon for freedom, trusting in God, defeating evil with good;
Bookmarked each end by two great men, Washington & Trump,
None of us know what the future holds, but thank God we're over the hump!
The nightmare of the past four years is fading in the past,
Obama's dreadful legacy is being undone at last,
The rotten racist policies, the lawfare and the lies,
The lawlessness, the anarchy, Marxism in disguise.
So thank the Lord for Washington, the father of our land,
Who won the war & led our fledgling nation by the hand,
And let's give thanks for Donald Trump who's winning day by day,
And all combine to shout aloud - God bless the USA!
Very fine.
Great post, Sasha! As an amateur historian I am always looking for and arguing with liberal friends about good comparisons for Trump, both his unique personality and accomplishments. Two come to mind. Andrew Jackson, who had an obnoxious, aggressive personality amplified by drinking (while Trump does not) and Teddy Roosevelt, who also was larger than life, courageous, patriotic, boisterous, highly opinionated and tried to win a second term twice (whereas Trump won his second chance). Teddy also grew up wealthy, though, like Trump, he rejected the trappings of his wealth at a time when it was popular to be “gilded”. But neither Jackson nor Roosevelt had Trump’s accomplishments. Newt Gingrich has him at 3rd or 4th in his ranking of great Presidents behind: Washington, Lincoln and FDR
Well said. Really well said. Except I wasn't exactly a fan of Lincoln or FDR, but I get it and I'm not fighting with you. You make a great point still. And Sasha is tremendous.
By the way, Irish Andy always had his noon-time whisky, "to the last of them," he'd toast to his many detractors!! A lot of bad, but Irish Andy was quite colorful and resolved. William Wallace was his hero, and though unsucesfully and captured with a knife scar for it, he fought against the British at the tender age of 13. Which kind of formed his whole hate for the British. He was the Hero of New Orleans for a reason. Side bar, yet of course.
Sasha is simply a brilliant journalist that we should treasure. I can add nothing, and rigthfully. Beautifully put.
Sometimes in our lives we get busy and distracted and forget to realize how lucky we are. Reading a wonderful essay like this; I am just so overwhelmed with gratitude that Kamala Harris is not our president.
I can't even imagine how much of a disaster that would be 9 months in.
I will never understand the hatred for the man, or how the Left, at least those members of it who have consciences, can live with the grotesque sinfulness of their neverending attempts to defame Trump. It may be that they have burned their consciences out.
Consider the appalling specimens of inhumanity which we all saw a month ago when Charlie Kirk was shot. Obviously, none of them has a functioning conscience.
The Right just wants to be allowed to live out our lives. But what would the Left be without its permanent campaign to make us all over into their hideous images?
I'm seventy - three, and have seen enough of life to know that it would require an idiot to say that Trump voters are impeccably virtuous, but the contemporary Left - and I am certainly not original in saying the following, though I think I had noticed it before I learned that others had, as well - occupies the world's waiting room for Cluster B cases.
"I will never understand the hatred for the man" - truly it is astounding and a pathological condition now. Yes it manifested as a surge of hate posthumously against Charlie Kirk, R.I.P. I think it also manifested in the hatred against the un-jabbed, too, but so much more concentrated. These people have really lost the plot.
Agree with you on all counts !
Trump has far, far exceeded my expectations. In my heart and head in 2016 I knew he would be good for America, but I did have reservations. With all of the Left's, the media the institutional and Hollyweird attacks, it was difficult to hold firm to my convictions. They planted nothing but seeds of doubt and the harassment was non-stop, both of Trump and his supporters.
Trump has proven himself time and time again. He learned much in those 4 years out of office and it shows. I haven't agreed with everything Trump has done, but he has been a most pleasant surprise. God has blessed Trump and answered many prayers for the turning of America and I pray He will continue to do so.
Another Sasha masterpiece!
Thank you Sasha!
What an amazing piece, Sasha! A tour de force that you are able to write like no other person!
"This has never been the story of the Fourth Reich and the Second Confederacy. This has always been a love story, a grassroots movement, a basket of deplorables, standing by the only guy who saw them at all, let alone the guy who would fight for the America they want."
I write from Australia, remembering back to the 2016 election and how distressed I was after seeing Hillary Clinton's speech in which she referred to Trump supporters as a "basket of deplorables". I woke up in the middle of the night agitated and I got down on my knees and I prayed, earnestly
"Please God, make many of those so called deplorables as exercised in their spirit as I am that they are not deplorables, and that they have a vote, and they must save America from the oblivion that will follow if she is elected. Because as America goes, the rest of he world will go, including us here in Australia."
I felt like God had answered my prayer the next day - although the spiritual battle is still going on.
If any of you you ever feel prompted to pray for President Trump, don't ignore the prompting - do it right away, briefly but earnestly!
It's not just President Trump; the ever Violent and deceitful Left has used the same playbook for 85 years:
New York Times Sept. 29, 1940
ASSERTS ' WHISPERS' CALL WILLKIE NAZI; ' Despicable Campaign' Is Nation Wide NOMINEE'S RECORD CITED His Service In World War
https://archive.org/details/asserts-whispers-call-willkie-nazi-despicable-campaign-is-nation-wide-nominee-s-
New York Times Oct. 12, 1940
WILLKIE ANCESTRY IS RAISED AS ISSUE; Democrats Cite ' German Background' And Seek To Lay Race Bias To His Father
https://archive.org/details/willkie-ancestry-is-raised-as-issue-democrats-cite-german-background-and-seek-to
New York Times Oct. 26, 1940
WALLACE CHARGES NAZIS ARE ORDERED TO ASSIST WILLKIE; Told To Use Money And Effort, He Says, As Roosevelt Defeat Is Necessary To Hitler
https://archive.org/details/wallace-charges-nazis-are-ordered-to-assist-willkie-told-to-use-money-and-effort
New York Times Oct. 18, 1946
HITLERISM IS LAID TO DEWEY BACKERS; Mc Elroy, Denying Communism Is Issue, Says Republicans Use ' Vicious Nazi Arguments'
https://archive.org/details/hitlerism-is-laid-to-dewey-backers-mc-elroy-denying-communism-is-issue-says-repu
New York Times Oct. 26, 1948
Truman LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS' TOOL; Says When Bigots, Profiteers Get Control Of Country They Select ' Front Man' To Rule DICTATORSHIP STRESSED
https://archive.org/details/truman-likens-dewey-to-hitler-as-fascists-tool-says-when-bigots-profiteers-get-c
New York Times Oct. 18, 1952
Charges Nominee Accepts ' Master Race' Theory; Truman Denounced In Unusually Bitter Terms The Republican Party And Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower New York Times Oct. 18, 1952
https://archive.org/details/charges-nominee-accepts-master-race-theory-truman-denounced-in-unusually-bitter-
Thank you for these excellent citations. I encourage readers to check them out. Truman calling out Dewey and later Eisenhower is very illuminating.
What an excellent article!! Thank you kindly, Ma'am!
Great post. But he has to fix the dollar devaluation problem, which he partly has caused, or it's all going to fall apart. I discussed that in my Substack today: https://johnseiler.substack.com/p/major-update-4216-gold-means-high