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But we're here to buck the cultural trend

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

H. L. Mencken (1926)

In the roughly ninety-eight years since Mencken wrote those words, things have not much changed. To wit: In nearly every poll over the last week or more, we now see Kamala Harris—a complete dullard—now ahead of Trump in the race to be the next president.

They've tried every which way to get rid of The Donald, but to analyze the left's latest gambit, one should first apply Hanlon's Razor—don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.

For who would have predicted the key tactic of the left to enlist "the most hated woman aside from Hillary Clinton?" (This is what Adam Haman, my colleague on the Natural Order Podcast, had to say about these evil women on one of our recent shows.)

This law of Mencken's was never violated on the Republican side for at least the last three cycles, either. To be fair, in a GOP primary, they haven't approached disproving it in at least four decades.

As for the path forward, Trump the Character is an exciting candidate.

Trump the Politician? Trump the Celebrity? Trump the Regular Guy? Well, there is a lot left to be desired.

Take these personas for what they are worth, though the plain people tend not to understand the difference between The Character and The Politician.

If Trump the Politician could eviscerate Kamala like he did to Rosie we'd be in a better place. A taste of that "Defenestration of O'Donnell" here:

Rosie O'Donnell is disgusting. Both inside and out … She's a slob … She's basically a disaster … When you look at her and when you see the mind—the mind is weak. I don't see it. I don't get it. I never understood … I'd fire Rosie. I mean I'd look her in that fat, ugly face of hers and say, 'Rosie, you're fired!'

Unnecessary? Probably.

Mean? No doubt.

Cruel? Absolutely.

Yet this verbal assault of Trump's from two decades ago was nonetheless genius and hilarious. And it was off the cuff. Unfortunately, we only occasionally see signs of that now with our former president.

The Donald still occasionally makes snide comments about fellow politicians, but they don't land like they did when he was just Trump the Celebrity. It also appears more likely—by the day—that he'll lose yet another election to a genuine loser because, ironically, he is not as cutthroat as we've been led to believe by the propagandists in the corporate media.

There still exists an America—roughly half of it—that is steadfastly against Trump simply for the stuff he says. They won't vote for him because he was mean to Rosie, even if she deserved it.

Plus it's likely, that without Trump's big mouth, he'd likely be the left's champion.

This is the circus world we live in. Trump is a man of the left, both culturally and politically.

But in politics, it is the friend-enemy distinction that drives everything. Trump, right now, is our friend. He doesn't want to kill us.

Kamala Harris is our enemy. She wants us dead. That's not an exaggeration.

So, where do we go?

Think about the average American. Harris is one of them—firmly in the middle of the bell curve on intelligence, charm, beauty, elegance, and more.

She also rates poorly when it comes to communication skills. In other words, Kamala "fits in."

Even more tragic is when one considers the supposed choices those below-average folks believe they have. By definition, they look up to the current VP. Consider the avatar that is her voters: the bloke of limited intelligence and the gal who's even less of an attraction than Kamala herself. Many such cases.

That's concerning. It is also insane.

But the intelligence of that great mass of plain people has always trended toward insanity. Recall: They are the same people that want you dead. And that is not just rhetoric—they'd prefer you not be living amongst them.

Take the Harris campaign event in Arizona a few days ago. Scan the crowd. To say the stark majority were metabolically unsound is an understatement. Not a healthy lot—physically or mentally—there in that slice of the Grand Canyon State population.

Even better, the number of attendees was vastly exaggerated by the Harris camp's propaganda arm.

So it's not particularly amazing, after all, that the plain folk fall for such a wildly unimpressive candidate. Kamala could have spit on them and they'd have sworn it was raining. "Hawk-tuah!" as some Mets fans—in the parlance of our times, of course—may be saying this week.

Point is, we're not dealing with a phenomenon that is in any way new. Dumb people get good jobs all the time. Same goes with the job of president or vice-president.

We do have the ability to counteract the narrative, however. Dumb people never win, they just occasionally get ahead for a little while.

Our new magazine, The Los Gatos Review, aims to be a big stick in the eye to the legacy media and the narrative it continues to weave.

That corporate media structure used to attract everybody, you and me included. But we can't let these people—remember, they prefer you dead—to infect the minds of those of us not so "plain." We have other avenues.

We have independent media. The internet. Email. Podcasts. Print magazines.

"Nobody ever reads print magazines anymore," say the plain people, the same ones who'd much prefer to absorb their propaganda by osmosis (or from The New York Times).

The traditional form of media, however, works for those who aren't so plain. We've heard the call and we now are in the magazine publishing game.

The digital version of our "Trial Issue" was just released last week. By reading it, you can get an idea about where we are coming from. Print edition will be coming out by the end of the summer and then a full print issue toward the end of October. That will be an election-heavy edition.

Our aim is to have the toughest criticism out there for you. We're independent media and not beholden to the corporate oligarchs, but to our readers.

Prepare yourself: It's also going to be expensive … but right now you can name your price on how much you'd like to pay for the first issue.

Go to

…and pick your price for the first issue. We appreciate any and all support.

As always,

Brian

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P.S. — We also set up a page with a sneak preview of the "Sneak Preview."

Go to

https://briandoleary.com/lgr

for a look at the cover, table of contents, and more.