Don't Rain on the Parade: Savor the Victory

Donny Trump's Historic Run

Today is a day that many of us have waited a very long time for. Eight years ago, I voted for Donald Trump with my father in California, a place where we never had a chance in hell, but for the first time in my life, I was witnessing a candidate that at the very least, had a great deal of gravitas. It was likely how my father felt about Ronald Reagan in the 1980s while he was in his first days as an entrepreneur in New York City. I knew my vote meant nothing in the Californian context, but it still felt like my vote mattered in contrast to 2012 and 2014.

Four years later was a stark contrast to this experience, as I refreshed my browser at 3am to see the steal of a Presidential election while working an overnight security shift in the thick of the Covid-19 debacle. There was a sentiment I harbored that told me four years of Joe Biden would make America beg for Trump to come back. Yesterday, I was vindicated in harboring that belief. Watching the hoard march down Broadway in downtown Oakland for the summer of Floyd told me that they’d run out of steam after four years, and maybe I was trying to cope with the insanity of the situation despite a grounding that paired with this sentiment.

In those four years, a dissident movement emerged in the dark corners of Instagram, Substack, Twitter, and YouTube that I was proud to be a part of. Despite being surrounded by the woke mind virus in the heart of enemy territory in the Bay Area I adore, despite living in a neighborhood of shootings, stabbings, theft, and murder in West Oakland, despite being told I was a bad person for harboring my beliefs about God, economics, civility, politics, culture, and health, I was enthralled to be writing and conversing with likeminded individuals all over the world.

It seemed stupid at the time: showing up to bartending shifts with a dozen eggs, a gallon of raw milk, and a jar of raw honey to make a “thumotic egg slonk shake” in my cocktail shakers while bar guests told me how there wasn’t enough “intersectionality” in America. It seemed stupid to be reading Spengler, Carlyle, and Hobbes while listening to content creators who blew my mind like Thomas777 and Academic Agent explain the full historical scope of what constitutes the regime since 1913/1933 all while not being able to talk about any of it with the majority of the people I was immediately surrounded by. What never seemed “stupid” however, was deepening devotion to Christ and dedication to physical training and entrepreneurship. But for all the aforementioned “niche” ideas and pursuits that fall well below the hierarchy of importance, they were ones that so many of us adopted with increasing intensity and certainty. If you refused to take the Covid-19 vaccine and were willing to relocate to follow through with this refusal then all of these stupid ideas seemed painless to fully commit to.

Yet these ideas we were all internalizing and sharing were slowly but surely making their way up the pipeline to individuals who could form a legitimate vanguard to displace a regime that seemed singular, all-powerful, and inevitable with their 2030 Agenda. Robert Kennedy went nuclear on the subjects of the vaccine and Anthony Fauci, and Elon Musk bought the primary platform for sharing information in bite sized pieces conducive to 21st Century attention spans. Then the cracks of the regime began to emerge, while Donald Trump clawed his way back from the badlands of being deemed “to abrasive” to keep the “sensible” Ron DeSantis from being the Republican nominee. It was in this period of time that it became clear that there was a way out of this “doom” that many nihilists within the West accepted as inescapable.

As it stands, the United States dictates policy to the Western world, and the victory of November 5th is undeniable, yet many within the ranks of the “dissident right” or the “sensible center” are falling into the trap of purity-spiraling.

While the “DR” is a predominantly Christian movement, the division of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox has each of long for slight variations of our most desired outcomes in regards to the fate of both the United States and Europe. Being in the Orthodox camp, many of my brothers in the Orthodox Church unintentionally or intentionally signal that they would accept no victory other than an Orthodox monarch of the United States who would swiftly ban abortion, no fault divorce, and pornography. This of course, is not only absurd but a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be Orthodox and participating in citizenship accordingly. Orthodox citizens do not dig their heads in the sand in fear until God presents them the “ideal” circumstances of Byzantium superimposed over North America. Orthodox men not only accept the given circumstances God has placed them in but work in perfect order of operations to deepen their Faith, increase their capacity as protectors and providers for their respective families and communities, and work to improve the situations they find themselves in collectively. I’m sure our Catholic and Protestant cousins would agree.

Now take a second and breathe in order to understand what has just occurred. Elon Musk bought Twitter to unlock free speech in the United States and reinstate Donald Trump, which began the campaign for this stunning victory. The regime has lost their capacity to exert both hard and soft power. Donald Trump is going to be in office with the backing of American finance and “rogue tech,” a Republican Congress, and Elon Musk assisting in slashing 90% of government. His platform consists of not only an end to illegal immigration, but a beginning mass deportations as well as a banning of seed oils and a return to tariffs just in time for the greatest transfer of wealth in human history due to the passing of the Boomer generation. This is the path to our fears of never being able to afford a house ceasing to exist.

This of course is happening all while the mainstream media has exposed themselves as no longer capable of forcing false narratives into the minds of the American majority, and more importantly, while the hold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt over the psyche of the nation comes to and end.

FDR was the mastermind behind the “deep state,” the “Global American Empire,” and the modus operandi of American politics that was based on shattering old norms. This modus operandi intensified under Johnson and reached its breaking point under both Obama and Biden, as there are no norms left to shatter, leaving individuals who were once firmly leftist yearning for some semblance of normalcy. What is left of the regime can try to contain the situation as much as they’d like, but the direction with which they can apply said containment is an open question they currently possess no answer for.

It’s my prediction that this will mark the beginning of another 90-100 year cycle of American politics that combines the “America-first” default setting of the past with the technological advancement of present day. What this will look is an open question all of us should be excited to answer. As for Christendom, the original form of Christendom was established through the Holy Spirit visiting Saint Constantine before the Battle of Milvian Bridge. While Saint Constantine cannot be compared to Donald Trump, the Grace of God was granted to him in sparing his life amidst an assassination attempt that we all witnessed. This is a Grace not only for Trump himself, but for all of us, as Kamala Harris is the leader we all deserved.

The future will be moulded the same way we reached this victory: through prayer to our God and relentless action carrying out His wishes. This work will not end during our lifetimes. But you will remember this day as the catalyst that allowed this work to continue.

So enjoy the day, don’t rain on the victory parade, give thanks to God, and return to work tomorrow.

God Speed,

Arthur Constantine