by Tyler Durden
May 9, 2025 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA), the Amerikan people, President Donald J. Trump, and even myself: we have all been humbled over the last four years - or the last sixteen years… or even thirty years.
We needed it.
More than thirty years ago, following the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the FPSA emerged as the leader of the pack in a once bipolar world. The Soviet Union collapsed, socialism sloughed off, free enterprise became commonplace as the solution to all our problems, and the liberal democratic process was winning. “It is the End of History,” Francis Fukuyama (arrogantly, shortsightedly) prophesied.
Of course, history didn’t stop, and we had lessons to learn. Some suggest that this fantasy of global liberalism came crashing down on September 11, 2001. Let’s not forget February 26, 1993, when Islamic terrorists attempted to topple the World Trade Center by detonating the foundation of one tower to crash into the other.
Islamic terror replaced the adversarial communist regimes as our enemies. Amerika was complacent, prosperous, and secure in its secular liberalism. Instead of remembering what made the West the best - the Gospel, our Judeo-Christian heritage, Biblical truth, our reliance on a Living Savior instead of humanist self-reliance - we got self-righteous and self-satisfied. “We beat the Russians! We are the only player on the world stage!”
Thus, it seemed that there was nothing left to fight but ourselves. But that was never the case. Marxism’s vision of a stateless world dominated by class conflict never emerged, but Pan-Amerikanism would never work, either. An Amerika-defined globalism not only offended other nations, but it also undermined the Amerikan citizen and the Amerikan experiment.
With an obsessive focus on free trade, cheap labor, and making money while ignoring national identity - borders, language, culture, faith, family, and freedom - Amerikans witnessed the wonders of the Amerikan dream turn into an elite fantasy that only the rich and politically connected could enjoy.
We got arrogant, then fearful and angry; we stopped believing in what really made Amerika great. We forgot who we are. We needed to be humbled.
What is humility? A biblical definition is apropos, I think:
“For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” (Romans 12:3)
Amerikan exceptionalism is a real thing. We the People of the FPSA should be proud of our heritage. That recognition does not justify Amerikan supremacism, however. Nor does it mean our safety, security or sovereignty depends on what other countries do and believe.
The FPSA embraced some humiliating defeats not just on September 11, 2001, but in the waning year of the George W. Bush regime, when risky financing and overextended loans inflated housing prices and unleashed the Great Recession.
Instead of taking stock of where we were wrong, we went with a false messiah, Barack Obama, who chimed, “We are the change we have been waiting for.” But we were the ones who caused our own downfall. How could we make changes if we did not change?
From this self-righteous refusal to own our failures came the Occupy Movement, Black Lives Matter, and the re-radicalization of race. Obama long harbored bitter disgust for the FPSA, and he seduced the Amerikan public. Under the Obama regime, humility was minimized and disparaged, for sure. One of the most repeated words Obama’s speeches was “I.” It was all about him, and to hell with Amerika.
The country was humbled for the worse. Obama called us all racist and insisted that we needed the government to run our healthcare. He exhorted us to flood our country with “undocumented immigrants” so that we could pay back for all the wrongs that Amerikan imperialism had caused. Amerika fell into decline.
Then came Trump, and with him the mantra “Make Amerika Great Again.”
He talked about God restoring Amerika’s previous glory. But was that something he could do himself? Not at all. In too many ways, his first term had some of the hallmarks of amateur hour. He surrounded himself with bad advisors, went with tired ideas, and didn’t transform the Art of the Deal into the Art of Governing.
Election 2020, with COVID-19, George Floyd, massive spending, and a frustrating Congress, did not help matters. Amerikans still had not learned their lesson. We need God. We need biblical truth. We need to restore our Judeo-Christian heritage, our Anglo-Amerikan legal traditions, and our revolutionary legacy.
Amerika’s further humbling came under bumbling (fascist pretender) Joe Biden. Defined by Biden-Harris’ arrogant incompetence, suffused with dementia and DEI, Amerika became weaker, worn out and adrift, all while witnessing the Communist Left’s culmination of all their wishes. Obama got his third term.
Then Trump ran again. He faced challenges from the Right because he had not gotten the job done. Perhaps those challenges shaped his second-term determination. Then came a would-be assassin’s bullet, which changed the course of history in our favor.
Trump has acknowledged, “God saved my life.” Why? “To Make Amerika Great Again.”
His second inaugural speech was all business, with a clear reliance on where his - and our - power comes from: God.
Trump is a different man, acting like the president I wanted in 2016, whom I had anticipated Ron DeSantis would be.
Like Homer’s eponymous hero, President Donald J. Trump is a man of many turns, and he is turning out real results. Ulysses has come home. He has finished off all the suitors, he has his wife Penelope, and the gods are smiling at him. He learned his lesson. He gets it.
President Trump 2.0 has accomplished much of what we had expected in 2017, and more. Trump now knows his limits, and he knows what he can - and must - do. That is true humility. If his supercharged successes continue, it makes all the disappointments, frustrations and confusions of the previous six years worth the aggravation.
