He’s a successful businessman who won the presidency after beating
his out-of-touch New Yorker opponent, despite never having held any kind
of elected office before.
Once in power, he launches a vast trade war against the pleas of economists, issuing hundreds of tariffs.
He cracks down on immigration, ordering a million people sent back to Mexico.
He’s disdained by the elites, but cheered by American voters he calls
this country’s “forgotten men and women in America – forgotten no
more.”
Amid a soaring stock market, he champions a vast infrastructure push –
stamping his own name on one of the biggest new buildings.
You may think I’m talking about President Trump.
But I’m actually describing America’s 31
st President, Herbert Hoover.
The similarities between the two Presidents are almost eerie – and they won’t stop with what I’ve just described.
Research shows…
Just like President Hoover in 1929, Donald Trump is facing a
once-in-a-generation crisis… a disaster that’s been years in the making,
about to hit its tipping point.
And just like the case with Herbert Hoover – when this crisis erupts, it won’t just mean the end of the current administration.
Like Herbert Hoover, Donald Trump won’t be just a one-term President.
He will be, like Herbert Hoover, the last Republican President America
sees for a generation, or even longer.
You may think this is impossible – that there’s no way we can write
off a President who seems to have nine political lives… someone who has
already defied astronomical odds and survived so much.
But as you’ll see – what’s coming to America really has nothing to do with Donald Trump at all.
What’s about to happen is a matter of simple math.
Even as I write these words, an enormous political movement is building.
It is stronger than the celebrity movement that put Barack Obama in
the White House. It’s even stronger than any force behind FDR – the man
who won four Presidential elections, and banished the GOP from power for
24 years.
The new and rising coalition in America will be stronger than all of those movements… combined.
You see, the tide is already beginning to turn in America.
In the midterm elections held Tuesday, November 6, Republicans lost
more House seats than they’ve lost in any election since the Watergate
scandal.
Even worse…
Republicans lost seats in overwhelmingly pro-Trump states, from Alabama to Oklahoma to Utah.
Republican Defeats in Red Territory
How is it possible that Republicans are being crushed, all over the
country, without a major scandal, in a strong economy, and in states
Trump has overwhelming support?
The answer is the most important political story of our lifetimes…
Far more important than the stories that dominate the news… far more
than any controversy or scandal you'll hear about in this election.
I’m talking, of course, about changing demographics.
In short - 10,000 Americans are turning 18 every day and joining the voting population for the first time.
But today’s young men and women are far more liberal than any other
time in history - with polls showing that most of these new voters
“reject capitalism.”
As a result, this radicalism is driving today’s Democratic Party farther to the left than any other time in American history.
It’s has already contributed to the rise of politicians like
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, who calls herself a Socialist, and inspired as
many as 1,152 people to join the Socialist Party
in a single day…
Just think: What will 10,000 new voters like this, turning 18 each
day between now and the election, mean for Trump’s chances in 2020?
After all, President Trump only won the three Midwestern states he
needed to win in 2016 – Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – by a
combined 77,000 votes.
With 70,000 millennials reaching voting age each week today, it isn’t hard to see how the tide could turn in the 2020 election.
And it won’t stop there…
Using their soon-to-be unshakeable hold on power, I believe the new
generation of Democratic Party leaders – what we’re calling the coming
“Blue Wave” – will have profound consequences on America.
In short, we believe this coming political tidal wave will elect an entire legion of politicians who:
Reward their coalition of “Blue Wave” voters by establishing a $15 minimum wage nationwide.
Forgive most if not all of student debt (now totaling $1.5 trillion.)
Institute a Universal Basic Income which will cost taxpayers as much as $3 trillion a year.
Double or even triple America’s already
staggering national debt as the country shoulders a more and more
generous welfare state, to reward the Party’s backers.
Implement a national sales tax, and hike taxes
on America’s wealthiest citizens, in order to partially pay for a
national single-payer, government-run health care system.
You probably still aren’t convinced that President Trump’s
re-election defeat is already doomed – that there’s no way even he can
survive this.
After all, Donald Trump has already survived so much…. And in 2020
he’ll have advantages he didn’t before, like a booming economy and
incumbency.
But just remember, the “Blue Wave” already put Democrats in control
of some of the most conservative places in America during the midterm
elections.
As a Republican President who’s facing this demographic wall, he’s simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Think back to the lesson of Herbert Hoover, who at one point in his presidency, seemed to have everything going for him...
In 1928, he came into office with a solid reputation as a savvy
businessman. He had won a decisive victory in the Electoral College,
despite never having held elected office before…
In fact, like Trump, Hoover came to power by defeating his
out-of-touch New Yorker opponent, Governor Al Smith. Like Trump, he took
office during a time of relative prosperity. And once in office, he
also carried out protectionist trade policies, took a divisive stand
against illegal immigration, and mounted a tireless campaign to protect
American jobs…
He even slashed immigration to America by 90%, while cracking down on
illegal immigration through deportations that targeted as many as 1.8
million people.
These actions won him the love of his die-hard supporters, and a wave of initial popularity in America.
If you asked any American in the year following Hoover’s victory in
1928, NO ONE would have ever dreamed that it would be another 24 years
until a Republican won the White House again…
That for tens of millions of Americans, Herbert Hoover would be the last Republican president.
You see, behind the scenes, a new kind of political opposition was
building. And America’s voting electorate was transforming in ways not
just Herbert Hoover, but his whole GOP, were completely unprepared for…a
force even bigger, and more permanent than, the economic disaster he’d
soon be facing.
A massive “Blue Wave.”
Just like in 2018, the 1930 midterm elections saw Republicans
suffering devastating midterm losses, losing 52 seats to Democrats.
It was a sign of things to come…
Two years later, Democrat Franklin Roosevelt won the Presidency in a
landslide on a campaign that promised a massive expansion of the welfare
state.
You may think this was due to the Great Depression – and that is partially correct...
But there was a much more important force at work… one which probably sounds familiar to you today.
FDR was unlike any president that had come before him.
He proclaimed it was his duty to take an activist role in managing America’s economy and natural resources.
He promised to get to work “distributing wealth and products more
equitably, of adapting existing economic organizations to the service of
the people.”
Once in power, his administration got right to work “spreading the wealth around” as promised.
In the first hundred days of his Presidency, Roosevelt pushed through
15 major laws as a part of his New Deal program to massively expand
government’s role in America’s economy.
His Agricultural Adjustment Act, for example, actually paid farmers
to produce fewer crops, in order to bolster the incomes of his rural
voters even as thousands of poverty-stricken Americans faced starvation.
He was the first President to institute a minimum wage – leading to massive unemployment.
In 1935, he created Social Security, laying the groundwork for America’s modern welfare state.
This was the only change he considered more important than America’s new minimum wage.
In those first years in office, no welfare program was too expensive
for FDR to pursue. He ignored his campaign promise to balance the budget
and ballooned the deficit to a then-unheard of $6.2 billion.
And as he poured billions of dollars into handouts to reward his
supporters, he also punished his enemies with taxes and regulations.
His 1935 “wealth tax” for example, hiked taxes on America’s wealthiest citizens to as much as 75% of their incomes.
Today, most people think that FDR got re-elected to unprecedented
third and fourth terms because his policies helped fight the Great
Depression, but that’s simply not the case.
Inflation levels reached as high as 10% a year in FDR’s America, and
unemployment averaged 18% during his first eight years in power.
But to the masses clamoring for his handouts, it didn’t matter…
Four years later, they awarded him an epic mandate with his decisive
re-election, even though unemployment was 60% higher than it had been
when he’d taken power four years earlier.
FDR won re-election with the largest popular vote majority of any presidential candidate ever up until that time.
How did FDR win presidential elections again and again, despite presiding over so much misery?
Reward your supporters. Punish your enemies.
In his famous Madison Square Garden Speech, he called his political
opponents “enemies of peace” as well as bankers and war profiteers, and
said of them, “I welcome their hatred.”
Because FDR knew something his opponents didn’t: the masses want to be promised something that they wouldn’t have to pay for.
After his re-election victory, the U.S. entered recession again in 1937, with unemployment spiking to 20%.
But again, that hardly mattered…
Ultimately, the stretch of one-party rule in America under Democrats would last 24 years.
It took a nationally celebrated war hero in Dwight Eisenhower to
finally return the White House to Republicans in 1952. But by then,
America was unrecognizable from what it had once been.
America Transformed
In those 24 years of a progressive white house, the national debt
soared 956%, from $23 billion to $243 billion, while the dollar lost
more than half its value… including a 75% devaluation practically
overnight with the 1934 Gold Reserve Act.
Observing the stagnation, heightened taxes, and persistent poverty in the United States, the British magazine
The Economist wrote in 1938 that, “for the moment, the United States seems to have forgotten how to grow.”
That’s because, while FDR’s handouts bought voters’ loyalties by the millions, they couldn’t buy anything else.
Not prosperity… not lasting peace… and certainly not any kind of security for America’s working class.
And today– the system of government overreach FDR put in place
remains in place, and it is about to be cemented by a new generation of
voters who demand government take an active role in their lives and
finances.
Just like before, the new “Blue Wave” of Democrats is making promises that will buy them voters’ loyalty for a generation.
In California, for example – America’s largest state by far – the
Democratic Party has officially adopted the cause of a universal basic
income into their political platform – a program that guarantees every
citizen a fixed amount of income.
And now even more conservative states like Georgia, Mississippi, West
Virginia and North Dakota are beginning to seriously consider basic
income for its citizens, too.
While the intentions of guaranteeing every U.S. citizen a minimum income are well-intentioned, mark my words:
These coming mandates will have catastrophic consequences.
According to nonpartisan economists, Universal Basic Income could
ultimately cost the American taxpayer as much as $3 TRILLION per year in
new taxes.
The scary part is, the left has even managed to convince those on the right that it can work – that it’s a GOOD idea.
For example, the conservative economist Charles Murray has recently come out in favor of universal basic income.
And even the right-wing think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, is now supporting the idea.
And this is just the start…
The same sense of entitlement will overtake our healthcare system too…
Medicare-for-all – an idea for government-run health care so radical
only Bernie Sanders used to support it in the Senate – now has the
support of 120 co-sponsors in Congress.
Kenneth Thorpe, professor of health policy at Emory University, places the cost at $2.4 trillion a year.
If you thought Obamacare was a disaster, you haven’t seen anything yet.
Already, the leading Democrats for the 2020 nomination for President are calling to forgive Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt.
Do you think that’s about good fiscal policy– or about the 300,000
Puerto Ricans – all eligible to vote upon registering– who have moved to
the crucial swing state Florida since last year?
Meanwhile, Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren – surging in polls – has introduced a plan to cancel $640 billion of student debt.
Who will pay for it? You guessed it.
Warren’s proposal is based on tax hikes – targeting America’s highest earners.
Now, politicians will tell you these proposals are about things like “fairness” or “equality.”
But what they’re really about, like everything in politics, is power.
As the political scientist Harold Lasswell observed, politics at its core is about “who gets what, when, and how.”
Today is no different. And as the “blue Wave” gains strength in 2020
and beyond, the next generation of America’s voters – the Millennials –
will be deciding who gets what, when, and how.
.The Real “Blue Wave” Is Coming
The coming “Blue Wave” is much bigger than just one or two election cycles.
Because each year going, there will be millions more young voters that join their ranks.
This is becoming so impossible to ignore, even the mainstream media’s catching on:
This is it – the “Blue Wave” is here.
As one retiring Republican Senator, Jeff Flake, warns, “At a certain
point, the flood becomes the thing most worthy of attention… It might be
time to build an ark.”
Or as Pat Buchanan, former senior advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford,
and Reagan and one-time GOP presidential candidate puts it, the
Republican Party is facing “a demographic death sentence.”
