This Convention Was Spectacularly Joyous, Something Our Elites Can’t Know

A spectacular Republican Party convention concluded on Thursday night—birthing a new Republican Party, a Republican Labor Party. The Convention and the Republican Party platform which Trump wrote, celebrate the “forgotten men and women” of America, the producing working and middle classes who are derided by our privileged elites as “deplorables” and deemed by them to be, ultimately, expendable. The platform is a program to lift them up and provide them the human mission and dignity they deserve, by promoting jobs as producers, as scientists, as engineers, as inventors, as farmers, as entrepreneurs in an economy which once again is a manufacturing and scientific superpower, and a culture which is a safe and happy place to raise the children of a new generation.

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If you didn’t watch the convention on television, you missed a transformational event in American history. We will be highlighting how this is so in posts and videos from our organizers who were there as delegates. This first piece, I hope, will only give you an appetite to learn more, particularly if you are one of the many Americans who are rethinking your view of Donald Trump. It was a joyous and raucous celebration of salt of the earth Americans of every race, color, and creed. It featured, on its exemplary last night, everything from Hulk Hogan playing Hulk Hogan and then reverting to the simple role of an American patriot endorsing Donald Trump because the country is at stake, to an ecumenical prayer for the entire country from Rev. Franklin Graham, to Tucker Carlson, to Kid Rock, to the music of Beethoven guiding Melania Trump’s entrance into the venue.

It was also, throughout, a total refutation of the lies about the man, Donald Trump, which continue to poison our ability to think or act cohesively as a nation at this most perilous time in our history. As told in vignettes from those who know and love him from all walks of his life, past and present, Donald Trump is a man of selfless heart, of kindness, of courage and devotion to his friends and family and to his country. As Trump noted in his acceptance speech, winning 50% of the American population is not a victory in terms of where the nation needs to be now. Post assassin’s bullet he has undertaken the task of uniting the nation behind a program which will bring an economic and cultural renaissance.

In his acceptance speech, President Trump dramatically recounted last Saturday’s assassination attempt, noting that only the hand of God had prevented his assassination and that he was not supposed to be alive. When he said that, the Convention floor erupted in the rejoinder, “yes, you were.” He talked about the added miracle that his supporters did not flee when the bullets flew, that they knew he was in deep trouble and would not leave his side. He said the remarkable reaction he had, of raising his arm and saying “fight, fight, fight,” literally seconds after a bullet tore off a part of his ear, was meant to let these people he loves know that he was okay. This is entirely typical of the relationship between Trump and his MAGA movement. It is a relationship based on the type of spiritual love defined as agape in 1 Corinthians 13.

He honored the man who took one of the assassin’s bullets, Corey Comperatore. The former fire chief died shielding his wife and daughter. Trump walked across stage and kissed his assembled fire gear while celebrating him as the ultimate biblical hero, someone willing to lay down their life for another. He honored the two other grievously wounded Trump supporters. He then gave a long speech, telling the American people fully what he would do in a second term. In many respects it veered into the stump speech which Trump supporters and the news media assigned to his campaign have heard before. But it is not a speech many Americans, listening now to Trump for the first time since his near assassination, have heard. He wants the public to understand it because he fully intends to implement it. It is not a political consultant’s empty rhetoric, the “vote for me” con never to be revisited once elected. It is his map of the future, delivered, this time, from a man whose life changed last Saturday and whose psyche is adjusting to his new mission.

This morning, Friday, our ugly corporate media has settled on the narrative that Trump went off script into familiar divisive territory and thus blew his declared goal to unite the nation, following his escape from certain death. They are up with polls alleging that the speech ruined a Trump coronation and the underlying fervor expressed by the Convention audience represented a dangerous and unhinged religiosity. The entire Republican Party was now a deluded personality cult, they claimed. They somehow construed a speech full of hope, optimism, and courage as “dark.” They don’t and can’t get it, trapped as they are in the pit of their deranged hatred and, in many cases, materialistic atheism. But, then again, only a small portion of Trump supporters really understand the full extent of the transformation which is now ongoing. As reported by our Susan Kokinda from the Convention on Wednesday, the old Republican Party is no more.

Teamster’s President Sean O’Brien gave a rabble-rousing pro union speech in his native Boston accent while the former Chamber of Commerce types in the audience cringed. He said that Trump was one “tough SOB” unafraid about hearing from “new, loud, and often critical voices.” That speech was featured in primetime even though O’Brien has not endorsed Trump or anyone else for president. Amber Rose, a former stripper famous for conducting the anti-rape, Slutwalks in California while becoming a major model and social media influencer endorsed Trump, to the equal fury of some conservatives and Democrats who enacted their typical cancel culture rage fit about one of their icons participating in reality. She said her father, in a racially mixed family, was a Trump supporter and he challenged her to prove her claim that Trump was racist. She did her “research” including meeting Trump’s supporters and realized that “Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re black, white, gay or straight, it’s all love.”

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of Detroit’s inner city recounted how Trump “came to the Hood” on Trump’s birthday to listen to the people in his church in a forum. Others emotionally recounted the loss of their sons or daughters to fentanyl or street violence. The Gold Star families of Joe Biden’s hideously incompetent Afghanistan withdrawal lauded Trump and reprised the scene of Biden checking his watch as the caskets of their sons and daughters were taken off the plane at Dover.

Tucker Carlson was greeted by a standing ovation. He said he had watched the video of the assassination attempt many times and that Trump had been transformed by it. He was now no longer a politician, however able. He was now the leader of a nation. He said that role is reserved for the bravest in history, for those with the most courage. He spoke to Trump after Saturday’s event and noted that as usual, Trump was not at all concerned about himself but spoke with pride about his supporters at Butler who did not panic and did not run. He said that Trump’s desire to represent what the people want, as opposed to Washington’s politicians who step over the bodies of addicts in the streets to get to Congress to vote for billions for Ukraine, is the contrast of this election. He noted that we have lost more people to drugs in the last four years than died in World War II, yet the only politician who appeared to care about this is Donald Trump. He said that the priority given to Ukraine is a finger in the eye of the people of this country, the ultimate statement that the politicians simply do not care about the people. He underlined the miracle of Saturday by noting that “God is among us.”

In short, the entire Convention was scripted to speak to the diverse country we occupy and particularly the men and women who make it work – to find that unity of spirit which Americans have exhibited at our most successful times –the revolution, the Civil War, World War II, the walk on the Moon. Its central theme was a showcase of the American spirit: thinking big, thinking bold, challenging the frontiers of human knowledge, pursuit of “the good,” extending across generations, all under the protection of God.

Wednesday’s program featured the Vice-Presidential acceptance speech of JD Vance, who, at 39 years old, represents the principles and policies closest to Trump’s heart. It is well worth reading if you haven’t read it yet.

Here is Vance describing his youth in Middletown, Ohio, a town devastated by the globalist policies which destroyed our industrial base and middle and working classes:

“But it was also a place that had been cast aside and forgotten by America’s ruling class in Washington. When I was in the fourth grade, a career politician by the name of Joe Biden supported NAFTA, a bad trade deal that sent countless good jobs to Mexico. When I was a sophomore in high school, that same career politician named Joe Biden gave China a sweetheart trade deal that destroyed even more good American middle-class manufacturing jobs. When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq. And at each step of the way, in small towns like mine in Ohio, or next door in Pennsylvania or Michigan, in other states across our country, jobs were sent overseas, and our children were sent to war. . .

“Now, my work taught me that there is still so much talent and grit in the American heartland. There really is. But for these places to thrive, we need a leader who fights for the people who built this country. We need a leader who is not in the pocket of big business, but answers to the working man, union and nonunion alike. A leader who won’t sell out to multinational corporations but will stand up for American companies and American industry. A leader who rejects Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Green New Scam and fights to bring back our great American factories. . .

“But, my friends, things did not work out well for a lot of kids I grew up with. Every now and then I will get a call from a relative back home who asks, ‘Did you know so-and-so?’ And I’ll remember a face from years ago, and then I’ll hear, ‘They died of an overdose.’ As always, America’s ruling class wrote the checks. Communities like mine paid the price. For decades, the divide between the few, with their power and comfort in Washington, and the rest of us only widened. From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnating wages, the people who govern this country have failed and failed again. . .

“President Trump’s vision is so simple and yet so powerful. We’re done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street. We’ll commit to the working man. We’re done importing foreign labor, we’re going to fight for American citizens and their good jobs and their good wages. We’re done buying energy from countries that hate us; we’re going to get it right here, from American workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and across the country. We’re done sacrificing supply chains to unlimited global trade, and we’re going to stamp more and more products with that beautiful label, ‘Made in the U.S.A.’”

Vance goes on to declare that we are a sovereign nation, a homeland.

These were the overriding themes the new Republican Party will take now to the nation. They are the themes long expressed as the American System by Hamilton, by Lincoln, by Roosevelt, by Lyndon LaRouche. Our enemy, the lords of the modern British financial empire, are in a frantic, desperate, and dangerous state. We here at Promethean Action and Prometheus PAC are determined to win this election for these ideas and defeat them once and for all. Right now, while there is much work and organizing to be done, that longed for objective seems imminently possible.