Today’s LRC main page demonstrates exactly why it is the one of the most critically acclaimed and significant on the Internet. Two brilliant items by Dr. Gary North and Dr. Ron Paul specifically look beyond the elation and euphoria concerning the monumental historic Trump presidential victory and engage in some very necessary brutal realpolitik concerning the immediate consequences of that electoral success.

The key to Gary North’s powerful narrative is the critical transition period over the next 70 days. With vice president-elect Mike Pence as head of his transition team, will the naive, politically inexperienced novice Trump sell out to the Establishment powers-that-be and choose “safe” choices for his cabinet and senior appointments?

Note: I totally concur with North’s suggested cabinet choices below:

Donald Trump never had a list of men and women who are independent of the existing power base that runs this country. He would be a real threat to the powers that be if he had such a list. Agents of the powers that be are now rushing into the vacuum. By January 20, the deal will be done.

Let me give you examples of what would constitute a revolution. If his choice for Secretary of State were Angelo Codevilla, I would be impressed. If his choice for Secretary of the Treasury were Paul Craig Roberts, I would conclude that he really has an economic agenda. If his choice for the Department of Defense were William Lind, I would assume that Trump knows what he is doing. If his choice for the Department of Homeland Security were Sibel Edmunds, I might have some hope. As for the Department of Justice, Andrew Napolitano is the obvious choice. But, in the words of John Wayne in The Searchers, that’ll be the day.

Here is the problem that Trump now faces. He doesn’t know anything about the federal government. He really doesn’t. He doesn’t know who’s on first. He doesn’t know the good guys from the bad guys. He is surrounded by people like Newt Gingrich (CFR) and Rudy Giuliani. We already know where this is headed.

Will he jettison the egregious globalism put forth for decades by the Council on Foreign Relations/Trilateral Commission elites instead of the vigorous America First populist nationalism he voiced in his campaign?

Will he abandon the failed Keynesian policies of past administrations for sound, free market doctrine addressing the challenges America faces?

Has the Trump Revolution been non-existent all along or is it fated to become still-born before January 20? Was it all rhetoric and no substance?

And finally, will Trump, as Ron Paul prudentially posits, challenge the deep state and it’s manipulative covert efforts to shape and determine the actual day-to-day policies of the regime?

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