Michael Savage - Trump’s War: His Battle for America

I am not a guru. I am not a leader. I am a broadcaster and a writer who can think. In that sense, what you see is what you get: a man of the people, who helped lead this revolution that gave us Donald Trump. In that sense, I am much like the thinkers and writers who helped lead the revolution 241 years ago. That first American Revolution was as much a revolution of ideas as political institutions, just like ours today. And it wasnt led by peasants, like the disastrous French Revolution which immediately followed it. It was led by men of ideas.

W hen British subjects fired on British troops at Lexington and Concord, they called it the shot heard round the world. Thats because it didnt just send a message to King George III. It sent a message to tyrants and the smug intelligentsia all over the world: the workingman, the oppressed citizenry, had had enough.

Donald Trumps startling victory last November was another shot heard round the world. Obama and Clinton had been confident in their ivory towerif power-mad pols can even have ivory towers. But I saw the revolution coming. I saw it before President Trump did. The peopleI call them the Eddies and the Ediths, the common men and womenwere quietly restless. They called me on The Savage Nation to express their concerns and discontent. Whenever then-candidate Donald Trump came on the show, I told him: listen to the people and you cant go wrong. He had already used my philosophy of borders, language, culture to build his own electoral base. He heeded the advice I gave him and now he is president of the United States. In fact, many people have told me that President Trumps entire campaign sounded like he was reading my books off a teleprompter.

So, we fired a shot but we also dodged a bullet, friends. Not a bullet from the guns Hillary Clinton would have taken from us, but a national disaster, one that went far beyond the tragedy of four more years of the progressive Obama agenda. You see, the Boston Tea Party was all about a crooked trade deal. The colonists were being taxed without representation so they let the king, Parliament, and the complicit East India Tea Company know that they werent going to stand for it.

Did you ever wonder why free trade agreements like North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are thousands of pages long? Its because theyre not about free trade. Theyre about granting privileges to government-connected special interests, just like the king granted them to his corporations. But the corruption goes far beyond cronyism. For all Americans who lost their manufacturing jobs because of these deals, Hillary Clinton offered to put them on welfare. She and the Establishment wanted to make them dependent, wanted to make them perpetual Democrat voterssomething that exceeded the ambition of even the autocrats in eighteenth-century London.

The upshot of that would have been something straight out of Orwell, with an anesthetized populace controlled by an elite ruling class. And the progressives had the nerve to call Republicans trickle-down fascists? The bullet we dodged was a permanent move to European-style socialism and the destruction of our once-robust national character.

So, the leftward march has been halted for now, and none too soon. When the Supreme Court told Americans of every state it was overturning their laws concerning gay marriage, it was no different than the English Parliament telling Massachusetts its local legislature could no longer make its own laws. From then on, Washington was going to decide how marriage is governed in all fifty states. Its not a matter of whether gay marriage itself is right or wrong. Its a matter of who decides.

Prior to the Courts unprecedented overreach, states were deciding the matter on their own, which was as it should be. The Civil War wasnt only about slavery, it was about this core concept of the American ideal: states rights. Choice. Why should a woman get to choose what to do with her body while a state cannot decide what to do with its own body politic?

Some states made gay marriage legal; others prohibited it. That was done by democratic vote according to long-standing local values. Yet for all their talk about diversity, liberals would brook no diversity on this matter. Anyone who had reservations was branded a bigot or a rube whose views were to be ignored as an impediment to progress. Unless, of course, you were a Muslim, in which case Imam Obama would look the other way. He and his fellow progs also averted their watery eyes when gays and women were abused by friendly nations like Saudi Arabia. This was by no means the first or the last time Obamas Washington had forced its will upon average Americans. They did the same thing when they passed Obamacare without a single Republican vote. Obama did it himself when he wrote executive orders to nullify immigration laws, regulate the coal industry out of business, and force public schools to allow confused boys to use the girls restroom and vice versa.

For eight long years, the people suffered this long train of abuses, along with the insults and accusations of racism and bigotry whenever they objected. Until last November, when all of us pushed back.

The war for independence wasnt won at Lexington and Concord in 1775. That was only the beginning. The colonists would have to fight the mightiest empire in the world for eight long years before their independence was finally secured.

Trump and the patriots who elected him are going to have to fight their own eight-year war as well. The question is, what will that war look like? How is Donald Trump going to make good on all his campaign promises?

To begin with, he has already made good on some essentials. The First Amendment will be safe under Trump. No matter what else he does or doesnt do, Donald Trump is never going to attack talk radio, as Hatchet Hillary promised to do. I can guarantee you there will be no return to the Fairness Doctrine, which was abolished in 1987. That bit of idiocy was enacted by the Federal Communications Commission, which sought to guarantee a diversity of viewpoints.

Neither is a Trump administration going to touch your guns. By appointing the next three judges to the Supreme Court, Trump may very well save the Second Amendment for the next forty years.

Perhaps most important, were not going to be at war with Russia. As I said in my last book, Scorched Earth, its life under Trump, death under Clinton. President Trump is going to repair our relationship with Russia in a way Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamas community destroyers like Secretary of Misstate John Kerry could never achieve. Trump decided to speak with Russian president Vladimir Putin before he even took office. Why? Because on October 17, 2016, less than a month before Election Day, Trump appeared on my show and I got that commitment from him.

The liberal media went insane. They all wanted war with Russia. It would have sold newspapers. It would have been good for defense contractors, who are all in bed with the politicians and media in the swamp. But it wouldnt have been good for America.

So, there is much to be thankful for. But now that Donald Trump has won the election, its our job to make sure he does what we sent him to Washington to do: drain the swamp.

Its not going to be easy. There are armies of special interests on the right and on the left who stand to lose trillions as the forty-fifth president rolls up his sleeves. Its time for all of us to prepare for Trumps War.

I decided to write this book as a battle plan. I was curious myself about how President Trump could make good on his promises, not just because they were big and unprecedented, but because he would face opposition to so many of them.

The big and unprecedented part doesnt worry me. Americans are at their best tackling the previously impossible, whether it is throwing off a tyrant or going to the moon. I am more concerned with the steps, the map, the how-to. Not just for the president, but for all of us. Though I will say this about Donald Trump. His biggest fight will not be keeping his promises but avoiding the pitfall of almost every public servant from small-town first selectman to commander in chief: temptation. The temptation to be assimilated into the Washington morass is powerful. Surrounded by yes men and women who will say anything you want to hear, possessing more power than any human being in history, you become convinced of your owndare I say it?your own divinity.