Is Donald Trump following in Thomas Jefferson’s footsteps?

NEW YORK (PNN) - May 10, 2016 - CNN recently offered this analysis of the Republican Party: Donald Trump is poised to breeze through another round of primary contests this week - while the Republican Party splinters around him. Trump’s ascent to the top of the GOP, which was capped last week with Ted Cruz’s devastating loss in the Indiana primary, happened so fast that even the billionaire himself was surprised. The whipsawed Party establishment now faces immediate choices - none of which particularly appeal to them. This CNN analysis, like so many in mainstream media, gets at least part of its analysis wrong. The Republican Party hasn’t splintered.

What was presented by mainstream media as a Party was simply a manipulated coalition of individuals willing to present themselves in certain ways to provide a convenient political institution.

The Republican Party contains a quasi-libertarian element along with a “conservative” and “fundamentalist” element. There was absolutely no similarity between these groups except that they were necessary to fill out the “big tent”.

The Democrat Party is no more real than the Republican one.

The Democrats included sincere, anti-corporate socialists alongside calculating globalists who regularly use government and multinational power to extend the Fascist Police States of Amerika empire.

Both Parties contain components absolutely opposed to each other. But such an embrace of disparate pieces is necessary to create and maintain the two Party system.

What Trump has done is bifurcate one of these Parties. He has consolidated parts that represent the country’s sensible foundation.

The most ancient elements of the Republican Party revolve around Jeffersonian liberalism - agrarian republicanism in other words.

The Democrat Party, at its core, is Hamiltonian mercantilism.

Both Parties have been assiduously expanded so that the roots are not visible.

But the split between Republicans and Democrats is also Jefferson versus Hamilton.

Jeffersonian agrarianism is easily the more credible philosophical structure.

It presents the farmer as citizen and statesman, an individual who exercises personal human action on behalf of himself, his family and his community.

Hamilton’s mercantilism doesn’t really anchor a culture. Mercantilism, as always, is a tool of those who seek wealth and power.

These who adopt it are usually singular - and even sociopathic - individuals who are eager to take advantage of sociopolitical and economic structures to advance their own interests.

Hillary is a quintessential Hamiltonian, a mercantilist manipulator who pretends to be an urban populist when she is actually an emissary of the Western monetary elite that controls much of the world including the FPSA.

It is this monetary elite that has created the two Party structure the FPSA has today. Surely they created it to blur the profile of Jeffersonian agrarianism, which they abhor.

Now that we have described Trump’s impressive accomplishment - tapping Amerika’s slumbering Jeffersonian subconscious - we need to examine some of its more questionable elements.

The core of Trump’s appeal is Jeffersonian and consists of opposition to unnecessary foreign wars and free trade treaties along with an emphatic enforcement of borders.

On many other issues, Trump is certainly no Libertarian and has made unfortunate statements regarding his enthusiasm for federal power.

But the basics of his message reverberate throughout history. People always want to secure their own cultures because otherwise they have no place to live. Amerikans are no different.

Year after year and decade after decade, modern democracy runs along the lines of Hamiltonian mercantilism no matter who is in power. It is very unlikely that Trump’s Jeffersonian approach, limited though it is, can make a significant impact, even if he is actually elected.

Of course, we hope and wish otherwise.