I hesitated before posting this meme. I know people are going to accuse me of being (or having become) “anti-Trump”. Which is probably among the stupidest accusations anybody can make. But alas, it’s the Internet. Stupidity abounds.

I have been fortunate to be in America for over 3 years now.

Sold everything we owned in Canada, left friends & family, and were blessed with the opportunity to relocate to Florida

Spent 2 years under the Biden regime hoping for a Trump return to power and praying that the last bastion of freedom and democracy on earth would be spared from the tide of authoritarianism sweeping over the west.

I followed the years of lawfare against Trump. The attempts to bankrupt him. Jail him. And kill him.

I was out for a jog on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Michigan, on my way to Wisconsin for the RNC. When I got back to the hotel, my wife asked me if I had heard what happened.

It is by the grace of God (literally) that Trump survived that July 13 attempt on his life.

It was by a political miracle of the ensuing coalition and populist wave that Trump won the election with a margin that was simply too big for the rig.

A coalition of Make America Great Again. Secure the border. End the fentanyl crisis. Take care of America’s veterans. End inflation. Bring manufacturing home. Protect medical autonomy. Protect food autonomy. Prosecute Fauci. Release the Epstein files. Prosecute those responsible for the Jan 6. sham persecution. Find the Jan. 6 pipe bomber. Secure election integrity. Purge the FBI.

And no new foreign wars.

Now, barely 5 months into the presidency, all progress that has been made is at risk. Promises on hold. And others seemingly forgotten.

It’s not a war, it’s just military strikes.

It’s not regime change, but it’s regime change.

Trump has always been clear that Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon.

And yet, for some reason, barely 5 months in to his presidency, after Israeli action against Iran, it has become such a dire emergency that the most fundamental promise of Trump’s election has now been set aflame.

His entire presidency… Everything the populist movement and coalition has fought for and hoped for… Not just on hold. Possibly in the trash.

You cannot blame people for feeling that this has gone from Make America Great Again to Make Israel Great Again. Make Iran Great Again.

You cannot blame Americans for being frustrated and suspicious that all the hopes and aspirations they had in Trump’s populist presidency have been shattered by the “midnight hammer”.

You cannot blame Americans who have been angry, and righteously so, that their best interests have been set aside for the benefit of Ukraine for the last three years, only now for it to be another country that is diverting American resources from Americans.

Part of me wants to believe that the military strike was more limited than it otherwise would have been because of the populist to pushback. That Trump is doing his best to satisfy whatever back-door political demands there are with his promises to Americans.

But you don’t just bomb and move on like a hit-and-run.

It is despairing to see America fall right back into the very same trap of perpetual foreign wars of eras past, while its own citizens are treated as second-class citizens to foreign interests.

Yes, I understand the argument that bombing Iran is in America’s best interest.

Foreign intervention is always painted in the same veneer.

This time it’s justified.

This time it’s necessary.

This time it’s an existential crisis.

This time, there was no other choice.

And so goes the cycle.

@RobertKennedyJr said it during one of his speeches (paraphrasing slightly) that a nation at war abroad can never be at peace at home.

With all of our hopes, dreams and aspirations, it seems we are right back to square one.

Unnecessary war abroad, and the ensuing devastation at home.