November 3 Could Be the Day America Crosses the Rubicon
Paul Craig Roberts
Here is how the NY Times Shapes the News in order to Protect Israel and Harm Trump: On October 29, David Halbfinger wrote in the NY Times that President Trump “has made clear he wants Israel to join the United States in another round of war against Iran.” Halbfinger blames the unprovoked aggression against Iran on Trump, with Trump wanting Israel to join America’s aggression. In other words, the war is Trump’s baby.
But this is how the US Department of State officially explains the war:
“As the United States has explained in multiple letters to the U.N. Security Council, including most recently on March 10, the United States is engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally.”
Operation Epic Fury and International Law, April 21, 2026
Reed D. Rubinstein, Office of the Legal Adviser, US Department of State
When a country’s “newspaper of record” is Jewish and it shapes news to protect Israel at the expense of Americans, the picture is of a people being manipulated to serve the interest of a foreign nation. It seems to me that the Democrats tried to get Trump supporters in trouble for less significant manipulations than Halbfinger’s.
If the November 3 vote produces a Democrat Congress, we will witness with the seating of the new Congress the return of lawfare to punish Republicans. The practice will spread, and defeated US presidents will have to flee the country like defeated presidents in South America.
After the midterm elections I plan to assess the outlook for America. I suspect that the Democrats, if they win, will find war against traditional Americans more in line with their agenda than wars with Iran and Russia. Opposition could be weak as Trump’s subservience to Israel rather than to MAGA has demoralized many of those who thought America could be renewed on the basis of its traditional principals.
There are indications that Democrats are transitioning into America’s first ideological party as Democrats become the party of Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ideologues are in it for the cause, not for money, and the cause is transforming or overthrowing existing society and its institutions. Ideology is fiercer than money, and this gives the new Democrats an edge.
The American people have little, if any, sense of this, and are unaware that their votes on November 3 could be equivalent to Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon.
Where there is no vision the people perish.