No Decline in the US, It Leads the West

As regular readers will have noticed, I have often dissented from the widespread view, generally uttered with a rather irritating attitude of resignation, that the West is in decline. It is clear that the United States, which, whether the West generally appreciates the fact or not, chiefly determines the direction and state of political and social health of the entire West, is not in decline. The enfeebled and corrupt coalition of the American far Left, the irretrievably woke, the Muslim and African-American radicals, and the gullible or maladjusted bearers of the Great Liberal Death Wish, barely managed to rig the 2020 election to elevate the totally unfeasible Joe Biden to the White House. After four death-defying years, that coalition has been so completely defeated, congressional inquiries are underway into the cover-up of the former president’s cognitive state, and the former CIA and FBI directors are under criminal investigation.

The Trump administration’s closing of the borders to illegal entry, plunging crime rate, mass deportation of convicted felons who entered illegally, the legal suppression of the political perversion of the intelligence services and the FBI, the roll-back of official payola for the lackeys of the old regime that amounted to outright vote-buying, and the embrace of a meritocratic, free market, job-creating strategy, all sustained by public opinion, are a comprehensive anti-decline, growth-and-pride agenda. This is replicated in foreign policy, where the freeloading mockery of NATO as an “alliance of the willing”, is being replaced by an alliance of kindred democracies paying their way and vastly transcending the ludicrous rivalry of floundering Russia and the thoroughly chastised totalitarian pseudo-theocracy of Iran.

This is not only indicative of a broad public spirit of national renewal and resentment of the previous policy of national division and self-criticism. Even the unprecedented resistance to the revolutionary newcomer Donald Trump, the only president in American history who had never previously held or sought any public office or high military command, a total outsider, shows that the apostles and architects of decline were full of misplaced energy. The decadent bi-partisan throttling of the American state in the interregnum between Reagan and Trump, gave us George W. Bush’s disastrous Iraq War and the elevation of Hamas and Hezbollah, and Barack Obama’s green zealotry, a battering ram against capitalism in the name of saving the planet, and his destructive obsession with race, and the senescent corruption and defeatism of Biden. Yet they all fought Trump tooth and nail, corrupting the justice system and suborning the national political media so thoroughly that they largely destroyed public confidence in the free press. This was a severe challenge to the guardrails of American constitutional democracy, and though it was all in defence of declinism, it was yet carried out with an energy that did not indicate decline.