Most rational Americans agree with Joe when he points out that Donald Trump presented himself as the enemy of the Epstein class, and yet has worked to "protect the Epstein class as he seeks to send us off into endless wars."

Most Americans also understand if the people can't elect representatives that actually work for them, the republican experiment we celebrate on July 4th is moot and meaningless.  Reason's J.D. Tuccille suggests that over-centralization and imperialism has disconnected Americans from their government.  The progressive media can't get in the mood for a party because Trump is president, but New Yorker columnist Jill Lapore tracks the history and her points are valid.  Beyond philosophy of governance, the average American can't afford to drive too far, or buy the expected provisions of a traditional 4th of July.   Scott Bessent says it's all good, speaking for himself apparently.

One may wonder which came first:  Neo-colonializing wars abroad, with simultaneous domestic wars against poverty, drugs, terror and immigrants creating a parasitic elite?  Or did professional extractors of wealth and peace manipulate state institutions, creating wars to shape a system where the government consumes 50% of our national production, and impoverishes average Americans through engineered inflation and a trillion a year in interest payments?

Check out libertarian class analysis for the answer.

But today's question is not philosophical; it is tactical.  Americans may be increasingly considering what it would take to break the empire and restore American liberty.  But Epstein class elites and the dependent collaborator state of Israel are far ahead of us, acting now to counter a real threat.

They have identified a problem – American democracy is turning against Israel, and rejecting her endless violence, assassinations, blackmail, and insatiable entitlement syndrome. Her American demographic is dying off – something Israel has studied long before the Charlie Kirk assassination and the subsequent coup at Turning Point USA.

Israel has focused on a critical risk – a Congress in the coming decades that will be at least as responsive to coming generations of American voters as they have been to neocon boomers and the silent generation. The warmongers in Congress will eventually be replaced by those who stand with their constituencies to put Americans first.