With the Trump-mandated defeat of the “evil” Tommy Massie (you can tell he’s evil now, because he grew a beard, right?), we are reading stories and commentary about how this is the “death of MAGA.”

We submit that MAGA actually died some time ago, despite rumors of its survival.

Still others are proclaiming this is “the end of the Republican party as we thought we knew it.” (Tucker Carlson)

We submit that the GOP has long, long outlived its usefulness. If indeed it had any true usefulness. Even in the case of its original reason to exist. Or why it claimed to exist. (To end slavery. At least overt slavery of black people.)

But as for MAGA, what all was The Donald 2.0 (2025-2029) going to accomplish? Here is a partial list, thanks (in part) to our friend Jim:

• An end to income taxes, at least at the Federal level
• The repeal of Obummercare
• Release of the JFK, Epstein, and Beer Flu (Coronavirus) files
• Prosecution of Fauci and all the other con-artists who gave us the Pandemic Panic.
• End of funding of abortion by the Feds
• End of the Federal Department of Education
• Prosecution (and hopefully, conviction and punishment) of the Bidens, Clintons, Obamas, and all their lackeys, shills, and the like (well, at least some of them)
• Cleaning up elections and election fraud

How many? Very few. Very, very few, and most of what is being pushed as “results” is more eyewash than reality.

The facts are clear: whether or not we believe these things were good ideas or not, they were not done.

But why? The Donald seemed to have recognized his mistakes as Trump 1.0 (2017-2021). He seems to have done things differently this time. And we reiterate: Trump 2.0 is very much far, far better than what we would be enduring with dear Commie Cammi! (AKA, Obummer 4.0)

Why?

Two ideas come to mind – we are sure readers will provide some others.

Did The Donald just lie and lie and lie to us about these things? And never intended to do any of them? Does this go along with that old libertarian meme: anyone capable of being elected to the White House will always be incapable of actually serving well? Or it just that he is no different than any politician: he is incapable of doing anything good?

Or is all of this the result of the Deep State and The Donald’s naivety and inability to deal with them? Are they thwarting him at every turn? Are they just carrying on doing business as usual? As imperial (and even monarchal and republican) regimes and bureaucrats have done since either Nimrod or Sargon invented them? (We here at TPOL think it was Nimrod and Sargon was just riffing off of Nimrod’s composition.)

Of course, as lovers of liberty, we suggest another idea. Human government, being in rebellion against God and His natural order, is incapable of being truly reformed, and the longer an institution exists, the more corrupt it becomes.

This year, as we are told dozens and dozens of times a day in every media and almost every email, we are celebrating what we here at TPOL like to call the year Anno Libertatus 250. 250 years of American independence. Of course, this present institution dates from AD 1787, 21 years later. When the Articles of Confederation were replaced by the articles of present federal Constitution.

(Which brings us to an aside: will the present, butchered and abused US Constitution actually make it to 250 years, or 2047? We have strong doubts.)

If we are to believe what people like Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin believed, the ultimate cause is a failure of the American people to do what needs to be done. The price we must pay for liberty has really not been paid much for a long, long time. (We haven’t even kept up with the interest accrued!)

We submit that failure of Americans to live up to their responsibility for self-government and protecting their liberty is a moral failure. A failure long recognized. As John Adams wrote: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” Of all that document’s faults, perhaps that weakness is the worst.