Commoners and National Politics Since 1960

If the 2020 presidential election was stolen, that the Commoner's president was chucked out by the Gentry ruling class, it ain't the first time. Let's run a little narrative about the experience of US Commoners in national politics since 1960.

1960 - The election of Richard Nixon is stolen by Democratic machines in Illinois and Texas. Richard Nixon was born a Commoner: his dad ran a grocery store and gas station in Whittier, California after his ranch failed.

1963 - Right-wingers in Dallas are blamed for the assassination of President Kennedy by leftist Lee Harvey Oswald.

1974 - Commoner President Nixon, champion of the "silent majority," is hounded out of office for deeds that our Democratic friends do every day.

1980 - Candidate Ronald Reagan attracts "Reagan Democrats" to his campaign but all the best people dismisse him as a right-winger and an "amiable dunce." Ronald Reagan was born a Commoner: his dad was a salesman and his mother a member of the Disciples of Christ.

1986 - Deep state runs Iran Contra investigation to try to impeach President Reagan, but fails when Reagan plays Sergeant Schultz and remembers nothing.

1988 - Bush the elder promises "No New Taxes" but reneges, betraying his Commoner supporters.

1992 - Many Commoners desert President Bush and support third-party candidate H. Ross Perot and that helps elect Bill Clinton president.

1994 - With Newt Gingrich in the lead, Commoners elect the first Republican Congress in 40 years, helped by backlash against HillaryCare. Gingrich was born a Commoner: son of a teenage couple whose marriage broke apart within days.

2001 - Second President Bush appeals to patriotism and sends US Commoners to fight in endless Middle Eastern war.

2010 - Spontaneous Tea Party of Commoners arises, rebelling against left-wing agenda of President Obama and his Obamacare. Obama siccs little Lois Lerner on them to hinder their acquisition of tax-exempt status.

2016 - Son of millionaire Donald Trump -- who plays a Commoner on TV -- runs for president explicitly as the candidate of the Commoners. Hillary Clinton calls his supporters a "basket of deplorables." Obama administration spies on Trump campaign and interferes with transition by spying on Trump officials.

2020 - Entire ruling class, from media to social media billionaires to street "activists," runs against Trump, president of the Commoners, and probably steals the election.

As I review the narrative that I have written above, one thing seems to come out at me, something I wrote in my "Commoner Manifesto."

A spectre is haunting the liberal elite -- the spectre of the Commoners. All the powers of the liberal establishment have entered into a secular alliance to exorcise this spectre. Etc.

Am I right or am I right?

It seems to me that as we look back over the last 60 years, what we see is the gradual coming-into-focus of a genuine American Commoner movement. In the beginning, this movement was led by Commoners that had vaulted into the political class with luck and talent, but the movement did not seem to have legs without a leadership from on high.

I propose that in 2010, with the Tea Party, a new phase began, when Commoners organized themselves for political action without assistance from on high. A big "tell" for me was Nancy Pelosi's comment that the Tea Party was AstroTurf. Our Nance could not comprehend political action unless sponsored from on high.

I propose that in 2020 the Trump Car and Boat Parades are another organic self-organizing movement of Commoners. OK, I'm sure that it all had help from the Trump campaign. But something caught fire.

The question is whether this movement can continue without the inspiration and energy of Donald Trump. If he is defeated in the post-election shenanigans does he return triumphant at the head of a veritable army of deplorables? If he wins does the movement continue without the spur of humiliation and injustice?

My feeling is that the Commoners all across the western world are being screwed by the educated ruling class and its Gentry supporters, and they are all waking up to the fact of their domination by an unjust ruling class. This injustice is a result of the current administrative state and its "activism" partners extending a seductive offer to all members of the Gentry: jobs and power to flatter its ambition, its vanity, and its honor. The problem is that everything this unholy alliance does ends up screwing the ordinary Commoner. And it always involves the humiliation and the marginalization of the Commoner.

At some point the Commoners are bound to say: this far and no further. Have we already reached this point, or is it still in the future?