Jeremy Carl

The Trump administration did the most to save South Africa when everyone was just watching South Africa follow Rhodesia's footsteps. Everyone watched the decay as if it was normal. Racism on minority, racist laws, farm murders, decline of cities, dead service delivery. Every other president, every UN, every European capital looked at South Africa and kept quiet. They watched the ANC loot. They watched the water collapse in Johannesburg. They watched the farm murders. They watched the "Kill the Boer" chants in parliament. They watched BEE turn into a looting machine for the connected few. And they said nothing. They called it transformation. They called it redress. They called it democracy. They called it anything except what it was: theft, failure, and racial revenge dressed up as policy. Trump said no. Enough. Trump is the only one who had the guts to say what everyone in Africa already knows but is too scared to say: You cannot build a country on anti-white laws and expect it to work. You cannot chase away farmers and expect food. You cannot chase away engineers and expect lights. You cannot chase away business owners and expect jobs. You cannot sing about killing farmers and expect investors. ANC just got less than 31%. Down from 46%. Down from 60%+. For the first time, the people are voting for service delivery, not for liberation slogans. That did not happen by accident. That happened because Trump pulled AGOA, put sanctions on the big men, and made the ANC feel pain for the first time. For 30 years the ANC was protected by the West. No consequences. No pressure. Just aid, praise, and photo opportunities with Mandela's legacy. Trump broke that protection. He treated them like what they are: a failed, corrupt, racist regime that has destroyed a first-world country. This is exactly what they should have done for Rhodesia. They should have stood up for Zimbabwe before Mugabe destroyed it. They did not. They cared about looking good. They let Ian Smith be called every name. They let Mugabe take over. And Zimbabwe went from breadbasket to basket case. Food production down 60%. GDP back to 1952. Millions fleeing to South Africa. We lived that movie. We know how it ends. First they take the farms. Then they take the businesses. Then they take the power stations. Then the water goes. Then the hospitals go. Then the whole country goes. Then everyone runs. Trump looked at that history and said we are not doing Zimbabwe again in South Africa. That is heroic. That is moral seriousness. That is doing the deeply good work that everyone calls evil because they are cowards. The liberals wanted to look good. Trump wanted to do good. Trump is not saving white South Africans only. He is saving South Africa for everyone. Black, white, Zulu, Boer, Indian, coloured. Because if South Africa collapses, everybody suffers. When South Africa falls, it is not the ANC leaders who suffer. They have houses in Dubai. They have money in Switzerland. It is the poor black child in Soweto who suffers. It is the black worker who loses his job. It is the Zimbabwean migrant who has nowhere else to run. Trump understood that. The UN never did. Europe never did. The Democrats never did. The West had 30 years to fix South Africa and they chose political correctness. Trump chose truth. Say what you want about Trump, but he is the only one who stood up when it was unpopular. And history will remember him for it. History will remember the ones who watched South Africa die and said nothing. And history will remember the one man who said no. americanmind.org/salvo/the-t…