Matisyahu's Blog

Well, the Trump administration has released some of the Epstein file and just as I supected they redacted a 100+ pages of the file resulting in next to nothing useful being released. Why aren’t I surprised? The moment I heard that the bill they passed included provisions regarding the ability to redact parts of the file in the name of an ’on going investigation’ along other loopholes, it was the moment that I knew that the full files wouldn’t be disclosed. Why do you think that so many Republicans got onboard? Because they knew that with the loopholes put in the bill it would enable the Trump administration to manage the fall out by redacting parts of the file in the name of some BS reason. Don’t expect any media on the right to hold the Trump administration accountable, expect them to come out and claim that it vindicates Trump’s claim that it was ‘all a hoax by the crooked Democrats’

It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the MAGA base – there has ben a gradual shift away from Republicans identifying themselves as MAGA in favour of traditional Republican not to mention the fallout online of once Trump cheerleaders realising that the ‘cultural change’ that some talked about never actually happened – people voted for Trump in the belief that affordability would be solved and not because of anything to do with abstract culture wars that many online cheerleaders thought was the case. It’ll be interesting to see how much of any sort of change is due to the Epstein files and how much of it has to do with material conditions going from bad to worse.

Unfortunately I am not optimistic about the future of the United States though – in my life time I’ve lived through 8 years of George W Bush and by the time Trump leaves office it’ll be 8 years of Trump. Two years after the George W Bush administration got the US stuck in two quagmires overseas along with crashing the economy the US citizenry decided to give Republicans a majority in both houses in 2010 – given the Republican track record, in any other country the party would be out of power for at least a generation yet in less than two years it appears that the US voter has collective amnesia and gave the Republican Party the reins of power Don’t expect any long term lessons to be learnt – if Democrats end up winning in 2028 then expect in 2030 for the Republicans in the midterms resulting in the damage from Trump being half fixed because the Republicans will obstruct every single step of the way.