There is at least one issue on which the US media and political establishment would be unanimous. Donald Trump’s nominee as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is a dangerous man.

He is a mortal danger, not only to that establishment, but also to the current high command which delivered nine military bases and billions of dollars in equipment to the Taleban, with thirteen American lives lost in their chaotic withdrawal.

Hegseth believes both the establishment and the high command have been captured by elements hostile to the United States, with lucrative retirements in the military industrial complex looming large in the background.

Hegseth shares these concerns with Trump, whom both the Democrats and the media know was never the dangerous fascist he was claimed to be.

As the Australian Rule of Law Institute’s Chris Merritt points out, by curtailing big media censorship, Trump is likely to do far more for free speech in Australia than the current Australian government.

For those who have missed it, or have pretended to do so, the essence of Trumpism is built on the delivery of a mortal blow to this century’s  ‘plague bacillus’, the one described as Woke. It was clear as long ago as his address at Gettysburg in 2016 that it was from this that Trumpism proceeds.

In his authoritative book, War on Warriors, Hegseth explains why the woke takeover of the armed forces has been a disaster which must be reversed.

That takeover was planned in the Seventies as a key part of the experiment to revive the comatose corpse of communism in the West by German communists Rudi Dutschke and Herbert Marcuse. This was their ‘Long March Through the Institutions’, the answer to the interminable refusal of the working class to play the revolutionary role communist prophet, Karl Marx, declared inevitable.

In substituting the Long March, Marcuse’s adherents were aided by new dogmas, especially critical race theory and its derivatives in sex, disguised as gender and including transsexualism.

These flowed from Italian communist Antonio Gramsci’s concept of ‘cultural hegemony’, hidden eventually behind the innocuous communist acronym, DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

As Hesgeth could say, this might as well be the motto of the Armed Forces of the United States today, indicating its reduced ability to fight.

The result was the replacement of the working class in communist mythology by a bewildering array of ‘victims’ as fronts for the successive occupation from within of key institutions.

The destructive powerhouse that is climate catastrophism was soon added, enriching communist billionaires, and not only in Beijing. As they say, follow the money.

This has proved an indispensable tool for the pro-Chinese, anti-Israel Albanese government as it desperately tries to turn an impoverished Australia into, if not the Venezuela, then the Argentina of the South Seas, before Australian voters notice.

As if it were all programmed in advance, America’s institutions fell to the neo-communists in succession, education first, followed by the bureaucracy, the armed forces and then the corporations.

The US would be followed by the Anglosphere before the remainder of the West.

Australians have only recently seen a new political extremism exhibited by Australia’s wealthy corporate executive class, especially in supporting Albanese’s attempt to constitutionalise the communist critical race theory.

There are, of course, inevitable contradictions in the process of infecting even the corporate class with what Lenin called the infantile disorder of left-wing communism.

How, for example, do our Bolshevik billionaire executives react to the recent US Emerson College poll which found 41 percent of adults under 30 consider the  alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by 26-year-old Luigi Mangione to be acceptable, compared to 40 per cent who found it unacceptable?

If woke education leads to a dramatic fall in literacy and numeracy, it does ensure young people are increasingly politically correct.

In the meantime, the Australian government has only recently revealed itself to have been extraordinarily uninformed as to the obvious impact of a re-elected PresidentTrump on net zero emissions. As a result, Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean says he will now be unable to advise on the 2035 Net Zero Emission rate before the coming election.

Is it possible that the Australian government allowed itself to be informed only by the corrupt US mainstream media both as to the likely result in the US presidential election and as to Trump’s policy direction were he to be re-elected?

Had the Australian government relied on Australia’s mainstream media, there would have been little difference in its lack of information. The fact is the Australian media relied far too much on mainstream US media outlets that were nothing more than the propaganda arm of a Democratic party that had moved to the far left.

The resulting misinformation led to the unsurprising YouGov poll on 29 August where 67 per cent of Australians indicated they would have voted for Kamala Harris and only 33 per cent for Donald Trump.

The government and the Australian mainstream media should have drawn from this journal, Newsmax, (including what is now Newsmax Australia, formerly known as ADH TV) and similar sources. Had they done so, they would have realised the obvious. In a  properly conducted election, Trump was likely to win and if he did, he would lead the world-wide overthrow of the scourge of woke, including climate catastrophism.

Until now, the standard mainstream media reaction to Trump has been one of arrogant condescension. Few commentators recognised, and even now recognise, how extraordinarily good Trump was and will be for the US and the cause of Western civilisation. Trump realises that the most dangerous enemy of the West comes from within, and he is one of the few with the strength and the ability to not only overcome this enemy, but to set in place the means to continue to assure this.