The Silver Bear Cafe

I truly do believe that President Trump really loves America, but for some inexplicable reason, his past connection with the Democrat Party and its propaganda really took hold of him in the early days. And despite all his protestations to the contrary, his Democrat leanings and proclivities continue to shine through his so-called “conservative” rhetoric on an almost weekly basis. One cannot truly trust that what he says today will be standing as his ironclad conviction tomorrow, and that is a maddening thing to witness, since it by its very nature acts as a subversive element against America and suggests that America’s own founding principles and convictions are of little or no consequence to him.

He loves America but he doesn’t have a good grasp of how to really show it, or how to present Her with the things She and Her people really need – which isn’t necessarily more free stuff and an ever more burdensome addition to the national debt among other things.

As long as Trump can grow his power and his own wealth and the wealth of his political cronies and the corporations aligned with Trumpism, it’s virtually an anything goes White House, threading the needle between liberty and tyranny as haphazardly as a dose of ex-lax through an old widow woman. One day the defender of liberty, the next its mortal enemy — depending on the day, the year, and the issue at hand.

Trump did not create America’s appetite for strong leadership. He revealed it – but in revealing it, he also revealed the danger:

A nation that personalizes governance will forget the purpose of its Constitution.

Trump promised to protect American freedom, But freedom cannot survive the concentration of power, and Trump’s second term has concentrated power more aggressively than any modern presidency!

If America wishes to preserve individual rights, constitutional balance, and the spirit of liberty that defines its founding, it must confront the paradox of Trumpism – and if not – it will be...

Sundown for American Liberty

Americans were recently subjected to more theater in the House of Representatives, as it voted to reject socialism, because time and again both Republicans and Democrats have made the conscious choice to advance and interject socialist mechanisms into our system and refuse to make the slightest of attempts to really scale back spending or limit the federal government in any meaningful manner. And yet, despite this vote and President Trump’s assurances that America will never become a socialist nation, the deeper paradox of the Trump era – one that becomes even sharper in his second term – is that the actual governing philosophy underneath the rhetoric has little to do with small and limited government or traditional American individualism and individual liberty, and instead, the Trump’s administration’s overall policy more closely resembles a form of centralized leader-driven collectivism, defined not by shrinking the state or state power but by redirecting and consolidating it under the executive branch.

It may seem counterintuitive to label Trump – a figure often associated with individualism – as a collectivist. But collectivism, in political theory, is not defined by left-wing economics alone. It is defined by the subordination of the individual to the perceived interests of the nation, as interpreted by a central authority.

President Donald Trump has long presented himself as a champion of freedom, individual rights, and limited government. His rhetoric often invokes themes of patriotism, sovereignty, and resistance to globalist elites. Yet beneath the slogans lies a governing record that reveals a very different reality. Trump’s second term has been marked not by the shrinking of government, but by its expansion — in spending, surveillance, executive power, and interventionist policies. Far from embodying the principles of liberty, Trump’s administration has leaned into collectivist nationalism, wielding government as a tool to enforce conformity and centralize authority.

Revealing the unspoken truth of the matter on November 21st 2025, during an ignoble, dishonorable meeting with Zohran Mamdani, the red, radical Communist supporter of Islamofascist terrorists, in the White House, President Trump stated:

It feels like we have all just entered the Twilight Zone – wait – So New York City isn’t going to burn to the ground after all? What a relief [written with a heavy dose of sarcasm].

President Trump is far from “a stable genius”. What he states here is pure, ignorant, unadulterated gibberish, no matter what good anyone believes he has done in the past and during this current administration. Let’s not forget he’s done a whole helluva lot of bad too, such as his COVID Lockdowns that essentially illegally suspended the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Make No Mistake — NO TRUE American Would EVER Compromise with a LIBERTY-KILLING ANTI-AMERICAN COMMUNIST — NO TRUE AMERICAN WOULD EVER COMPROMISE With EVIL, much less shake its hand.

Trump should not have welcomed Mamdani so warmly or given him such a platform within the Oval Office. He certainly shouldn’t have allowed for this sort of photo to be taken, which gives Mamdani a public relations coup of sorts and a propaganda tool for months to come — if anything, Trump should have spit into the palm of Mamdani’s hand and told him “there, you’ve had your meeting, now get the hell out of here”.

Something’s severely wrong in this country, if this photo doesn’t make a bit of bile rise in the throat of every American patriot, from coast to coast.

NOTHING GOOD ever comes from giving these commie rat bastards any sort of an edge or promoting them in any such manner — mark my words.

This is selling the sundown of America, the White House version.

…are we reaching Sundown?

This has a bad feeling written all over it, as if a new era of collaboration between Republicans and Democrat Party communists is being engaged in order to push America even farther left and down the path to full blown communism, especially once we consider that the Trump administration is now poised to pass a new two year extension of the Affordable Care Act.

Once again Republicans prepare to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, by way of a move they hope will save them in the mid-term elections, but it is quite likely to backfire. Trump’s suggestion that he is open to the ACA extension stands in stark contravention to his own words, when he stated that, “the only health care I will support or approve is sending the money directly back to the people, with nothing going to the big, fat, rich insurance companies.” And it represents even a bigger betrayal of Trump’s Make America Great Again base, when one understands that this two year extension of the ACA will enhance, extend and entrench Obamacare and continue to fund abortions and transexual sex-change procedures.

I don’t always agree with Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) on too many issues, but it isn’t any wonder that she has decided to resign from Congress on January 5th 2026, due to ongoing disputes between her and President Trump, who she once staunchly supported. Trump can call her “wacky” and avoid an honest debate on the merit of fact all he wants, but MTG is one hundred percent correct and accurate in her positions against H1B visas replacing American jobs, siding with state moratoriums against Artificial Intelligence, and opposing all involvement in foreign wars, similar to Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) who is also currently under fire from Trump.

It isn’t any wonder that MTG has decided to leave Congress, possibly to take up her causes on the state level back home in Georgia, since her supposed fellow “Republicans” have completely ignored her patriotic, excellent bills and let them languish without votes – bills that called for a new census that counts only Americans without the inclusion of illegal aliens; make English the official U.S. language; criminalize medical transitions for minors, and eliminate H-1B visas.

Sure – the American people should expect that Congress would be loyal to any president who is promoting an America First agenda or trying to move Americans back to shared values. Although Trump is doing a good bit to move the nation back to America’s traditional values that were once shared by a huge majority, his America First agenda is largely tarnished and diminished by his own actions, especially when he climbs in bed with America’s enemies, such as Saudia Arabia and Qatar, both of which have been exporters of Islamic terrorism across the globe and here in America and both of which aided the Taliban and Iranian soldiers to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. Trump is tying America’s hopes far too closely to these two in the advancement of A.I., in hopes of keeping a backdoor to spy on China, as he gives Saudia Arabia F-35 fighter jets – a nation allied with China on many endeavors.

And then there is the Saudi Islamic Academy in Fairfax, Virginia where the students were taught to hate Christians, Jews and America via textbooks that touted the honor found in jihad/holy war against all infidels and Westerners.

President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, November 18th 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Representatives represent the people, their constituents, in theory, and they aren’t supposed to dance in lock-step with the president’s wishes or demands, unless they truly believe those wishes are good for the people and all America and are aligned with what our Founders originally intended for America and the inalienable God-given rights so many Americans hold so dear.

Sure – stand with President Trump when his policies, much like his position on illegal aliens and energy, are worth supporting and defending, but when he proposes more massive spending bills or trillions in stimulus, such as the Big Beautiful Bill that was full of Traitor Joe Biden communist bullshit, he deserves to be questioned and called to make a full accounting for that position rather than handed another blank check.

Despite promises to rein in government spending, Trump’s second term has overseen massive budget increases and ballooning deficits, Stimulus packages, defense spending and entitlement expansions have driven the national debt to unprecedented levels. This is a Big Government approach – using federal resources to manage the economy and sustain political support.

Representative Thomas Massie famously opposed these spending bills, warning that they represented fiscal irresponsibility and government overreach. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has similarly condemned the debt as a threat to liberty, arguing rightfully so that borrowing and printing more fiat “money” against future generations undermines their freedom.

Trump’s willingness to embrace deficit spending reveals his collectivist priorities – maintaining national strength and political popularity at the expense of individual fiscal responsibility and in the end individual liberty.

Currently, Trump has taken a no-prisoners, scorched earth tactic against any Republican who opposes him in the slightest, promising to primary them in their upcoming elections and support their opponents. Now, the GOP largely answers to Trump these days. And the Freedom Caucus, plagued by its own self-doubts and infighting has largely diminished since Trump’s first term and appear to be in a hard decline. Nearly a fifth of its roughly three dozen members are running for other offices or considering the prospect of doing so.

Trump appears to be solidifying his control of the House, and the Republican caucus internecine battles have taken on the feel of a forgotten war, since Trump has proved without a doubt that he doesn’t really care about the deficit or the size of the government. Indeed, as the Department of Government Energy is now disbanding eight months earlier than its mandated end date, if Trump had truly intended for DOGE to be about reducing the size of government — rather than purging it of programs he didn’t like, Trump never would have requested $2 billion for a D.C. beautification fund — let alone signed legislation that will add trillions to our national debt, that now sits at $38 trillion dollars.

Such mounting contradictions are breathing a bit of life back into the body of those real American patriots, who recoil from such massive government spending and the additional growth of Big Government, and while such Republicans are far from being natural allies of President Trump, it’s become increasingly difficult for any of them to successfully oppose Trump on much of anything, as legislating from a principled position far too easily falls by the wayside. Even as Trump’s administration demands that the federal government must have stakes in major corporations, such as U.S. Steel and Intel – a thing that most would normally decry as socialism – they have largely been silent, other than a select few.

It isn’t any exaggeration to suggest that the bulk of the Republican Party has gone from being dedicated to downsizing government, controlling spending and lowering taxes to now simply being a Trump fan club.

Trump’s presidency is not the first to expand federal power, but, it is the first in modern history to do so while simultaneously branding itself as a crusade against government overreach. The contradiction is not merely philosophical; it has real implications for America’s so-called “constitutional representational republic” – or “democracy” if you’re a Democrat Party communist – and for the foundational principle that true liberty requires diffused power, not concentrated authority.

The assumption that President Trump’s hostility to certain institutions translates into a broader philosophy of limited government is erroneous at best. In practice, Trump favors a reallocation of power, not a reduction. He resents bureaucratic independence not because it is “Big Government”, but because it is government he does not control.

It turns out that the Swamp is deeper than the American people ever imagined. The more Trump fights the “Deep State”, the more he expands the power of the head of state – himself.

Every president uses executive orders in some form or fashion, but people lose sight of the fact that these orders were originally simply intended to facilitate some existing law, not essentially create new laws in an illegitimate manner. Every new president always asserts the need for decisive action, but Trump’s second term is defined by an unprecedented willingness to invoke emergency powers in new and perhaps overly creative ways, not as exceptions but as standard operating procedure, even when other means of action are readily available and the emergency is somewhat vague.

Emergency authorizations were designed for actual crises, like war, natural disasters and sudden attacks upon America, but Trump uses them to bypass Congress; however, to be fair, Trump really did need to bypass Congress in order to seal the borders and halt the flow of dangerous drugs into America, because Congress absolutely was not performing its duties in this regard. And, in similar fashion, it was a necessity to rapidly inject our energy industry with a jolt of new life.

Some of Trump’s questionable use of this tactic are in association with his tariff and trade policies, spending and regulatory matters and administrative restructuring.

Although Trump frequently invokes free-market language, his second term economic philosophy is simply a continuation of the economic fascism that has prevailed since the Wison presidency, except on steroids, as subsidies continue to flow to all sectors of our domestic economy, and of course, this is not laissez-faire capitalism by a longshot. It is a form of state-guided economic nationalism that may be necessary to deal with foreign nations whereby valuations are different and nations regularly present a false value for their currency and labor costs, in order to gain a competitive edge; but it is not conducive to a prosperous, thriving domestic economy where free market principles surely should be utilized to allow the market to pick winners and losers rather than the federal government.

Historically, Trump is following a model that more closely resembles De Gaulle’s dirigisme, the state control of economic and social matters, Putin’s state capitalism, Orban’s national conservatism, and East Asian developmental states without the technocratic coherence. In each case, markets remain private in name only, and economic power is exercised through federal mechanisms. Any dissenting companies are penalized. And however one wishes to describe this – collectivist economics or economic fascism – this is not free enterprise.

When emergency powers become routine, the Constitution’s legislative checks – already incredibly bastardized and weakened – weaken even further, if not fail outright. This totally sidelines Congress, which was supposedly designed to be the most representative body of government, and it sets the stage for governance by executive proclamation.

One hallmark of collectivist or authoritarian systems is the normalization of “emergency” rule, whereby some leader asserts that he alone can fix the nation’s problems – that the troubles demand extraordinary authority and normal procedures are inadequate. Trump’s second term increasingly fits this pattern, and this is far from small and limited government. It is a hyper-presidential government.

Trump’s administration has also expanded surveillance and military authority. Under the banner of national security, federal agencies have increased monitoring of communications, strengthened border enforcement rightfully so, and broadened military operations abroad. These measures centralize power in the executive branch and erode civil liberties.

Senator Rand Paul has been a consistent critic of surveillance programs, correctly and properly arguing that they violate the Fourth Amendment and threaten individual privacy. His opposition highlights the conservative and libertarian commitment to limiting government intrusion. Trump’s policies, by contrast, reflect a collectivist emphasis on national security over individual rights, over the U.S. Bill of Rights and each of our inalienable God-given rights.

“When the common American people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington’s machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they, common Americans, The People, possess the real power over Washington, then I’ll be here by their side to rebuild it.”

In the meantime, President Trump’s use of the executive order may stick in people’s craw as they witness him purge thousands of federal employees from the rolls, but in this instance, it was quite a necessary act to remove past Democrat Party communist holdovers who have steadily and consistently worked against Trump’s agendas, since his first term, often by way of illegal means.

Well, just WTF have I done wrong?

Still, many of President Trump’s executive orders, and a great number of past president’s executive orders, upend the natural order of our government’s checks and balances in a manner that lends itself ever increasingly so towards authoritarian government and the growth of tyranny in America. One surely must shudder to imagine what the next president might do under the game plan laid out by presidents since 2001, that has consistently led to the further erosion of freedom and individual liberty, the expansion of tyrannical controls, and the suppression of all Americans’ inalienable God-given rights in ways that make the earth quake, as past patriots shake with anger from the grave.

All true Americans really do not have too much time left, nor can they afford to tarry, to consider the future of our republic and that of our families and this America we love so well. The American patriots of this land must come to recognize the danger of conflating misleading and misguided notions of patriotic nationalism with liberty, which isn’t to say nationalism or desiring a unified people under shared values is a bad thing at all. True freedom and individual liberty demand that the American people limit the power of our government, fully protect individual rights and fiercely resist and reject collectivist conformity.

We’ll never see a smaller government, more freedom, less spending or less in taxes, surveillance and less tyrannical control from this day forth, not ’til the nation goes through the fires of civil war again and we all emerge on the other side for better or worse, hopefully in a nation purged of red, radical communists, RINOs, and Islamofascists.

Liberty is fragile and defending it requires vigilance against the allure of Big Government, even when it comes wrapped in patriotic rhetoric and the American flag.