HE TRUMPS ME, HE TRUMPS ME NOT: A Metronome of Fear and Hope?
Why is the truth always tomorrow? And why are so many people content to wait for it?
I ask this not merely because President Trump has once again reversed himself on the Epstein issue, but because the pattern itself is older than politics, older than media, older even than the modern occult revival. It’s the pattern of oscillation–push, pull, hope, dread. And people follow it as though it were a sign of divine sincerity rather than the strategy of man–flawed at best and weaponized at worst.
I first watched this story awaken millions of Americans around 2020. Many didn’t enter “politics” for the mass psyop of our times in the COVID sham, as admittedly others did. They came because of the child-trafficking tragedy of our times–a tragedy so grotesque it snapped them into a sharper moral clarity. My support for Trump first reignited in earnest in this digital space in 2022 for this very reason, and for a long time I believed it could form a bridge between right and left.
I still have hope for that.
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Mr Trump was elected again of course, and we have experienced what could very well be perceived as a litany of national victories. But with that also came the reversals, the dismissals, and even the mockery of those who still cared about the children. We suddenly had “bigger things to worry about.” And I watched an even stranger thing materialize: supporters adjusting their convictions to match the new tone, as though conscience itself were negotiable.
Now he is reversing course again:
President Donald Trump on Sunday night threw his support behind the congressional effort to release files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “We have nothing to hide,” he declared.
Trump made the endorsement — a reversal after months of suggesting there was no reason to focus on the issue — as the House prepared this week for a vote that would authorize the release of Epstein records in the government’s possession.
The president said the incessant focus on Epstein was undercutting the Republicans’ ability to tout their successes on economic, security, and diplomatic issues.
Keep in mind this “reversal after months of suggesting there was no reason to focus on the issue” came after his comments on Bill Clinton in 2015 with Sean Hannity concerning “a little island” and everything I’ve been putting out in article after article for over three years now. Perhaps that 2022 one above (under “reignited”} would be a good one to start with–you’ll see everything Trump did himself to draw attention to the child trafficking issue.
In other words, he inspired a lot of people to care. Then a few months ago he practically mocked those very people for caring.
A Dark Possibility Here?
The court of public opinion, headed in a most powerful direction for so long, has revealed itself not as something newly sovereign, but something simply kowtowing to its latest trusted voice–no matter what is said. I thought his penchant for the double entendre was genius in a good way for a long time, and that still might be the case, but my hope was that it would be his detractors that would change course–not his supporters incessantly self-correcting to match the new tune under the flag of “trusting the plan” or “where we go one we go all,” or something.
I thought we’d broken the spell of Mockingbird media, but perhaps it wasn’t the spell that was broken at all. Perhaps Mockingbird simply moved.
This is where the true concern lies–not in one leader’s pivot, but in the reflexive conformity of those who follow the pendulum. The spell matters more than the spellcaster. It’s the trick we should fear, especially with everything we’ve been examining about Modernism, prophecy, and the spiritual war beneath the political one.
Especially when you couple Exodus 32:34 and 2 Thessalonians 2:11 in the shadow of everything America has become morally.
Do I think all of this–Epstein, tariffs, Venezuela, Putin, everything–could still be part of the narrative warfare–from Trump’s initiation and in our favor–I’ve spent so much time on these last few years? Absolutely.
Do I think that all of this is part of the narrative warfare–as initiated by the Almighty himself in calling his people back to him–I’ve spent even more time on?
You know the answer.
For the enemy, it is the oldest trick in the book because it works on everybody, from lab animals to voters. Hope is dangled. Hope is withdrawn. Fear spikes. Relief follows. The cycle repeats. And eventually, the subject stops thinking for himself and starts waiting for the next dopamine hit disguised as guidance.
I don’t know what the answer is with Trump, but what I can say with assurance is that with or without him, God is showing us the way. We are in a pivotal point in human history–both on a universal scale and one that scales down to the individual, the soul.
So let’s take this out of the personality- and politics-driven realm and widen the lens.
Why is it that leaders of all kinds–political, spiritual, corporate, even cultural–seem to move with a rhythm that never quite resolves?
One week they thunder certainty, the next they whisper doubt.
They offer hope on Monday and existential dread on Friday.
And so many, oddly enough, follow the dance. Dare I say it–we trust the dance.
What exactly is going on here?
There’s an old tactic found not only in occult traditions but in every manipulative system that survives long enough to codify its own playbook. Saul Alinsky may come to mind but there are countless others. The tactic is simple: oscillation. Push and pull. Build tension, release tension. Confuse, clarify, confuse again. Ancient mystery cults used it. Modern intelligence agencies use it. And yes–modern ideological movements use it too.
Why? Because a person suspended between emotional poles is easier to steer than a person standing firmly on solid ground.
If you’ve been reading my work on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in relation to the evils of Modernism lately, graft this article today on top of it. You’ll see it.
I was reminded of my work with former students on mass psychosis, a phenomenon fascinatingly illustrated in the following YouTube video:
From there, as I ramped up my thoughts on this piece for you today, I asked the internet the following question: “What is it called in occult practices when the trusted leader flip flops back and forth on an issue, alternatingly giving angst and hope along the way?”
Here were the possibilities provided:
1. “The Double Bind”
Found in:
- occult initiation systems
- psychological manipulation
- trauma-bonding dynamics
- cult programming
A double bind is when a leader gives contradictory messages that cannot be reconciled, keeping the follower in a perpetual state of confusion and dependency.
It works by alternating:
- hope → despair → hope → despair
- affirmation → rejection
- promise → withdrawal
This destabilizes the follower’s internal compass, making them rely more heavily on the leader for “resolution.”
2. “Intermittent Reinforcement”
Found in:
- occult manipulation
- NLP
- behavior conditioning
- gaslighting systems
This is a classic control mechanism: reward them sometimes, punish them sometimes, unpredictably.
It creates:
- addiction
- emotional volatility
- dependency on the controller’s next signal
This is the same technique used in casinos, cults, political psyops, and abusive relationships — because it is the most powerful method of psychological conditioning known.
3. In ceremonial / occult traditions specifically: “The Oscillation Ritual” or “Pendulum Enchantment”
Used in:
- chaos magick
- certain Thelemic/Golden Dawn derivatives
- left-hand-path psychological magic
The idea is:
Control is achieved by creating rhythmic instability.
A back-and-forth movement that keeps the subject disoriented, spiritually open, and dependent.Leaders use oscillation intentionally to maintain:
- compliance
- emotional enmeshment
- spiritual vulnerability
It mirrors the hermetic principle of rhythm (“to and fro”), weaponized against the follower.
I provide this artificial response only as an intriguing reference, not to accuse Trump or anyone for that matter of such insidious descriptions. I provide it to supplement my Socratic posture with you today, an invitation more than a declaration.
Some of you may recognize a narcissistic ex, or perhaps even yourself in a previous relationship, in the descriptions above.
Scary, right? How manipulated we can be…
All of this is where, now that I think of it, the Hegelian Dialectic comes in. We’ve explored that dynamic many times as well.
I even see it in the politics of Louisiana in some of the work I edit here for Scott on The Hayride. I don’t follow Louisiana beyond that too too much, but I see it. I see the dance.
Is this just simple politics? Why oh why do we find ourselves disappointed every single time when we are forced to reconcile the cognitive dissonance brought on by an elected official in relation to the same human being as a mere candidate just weeks and days before the vote?
Really, again, is this just simple politics?
Truth and the Soul
What happens inside the soul when “truth” no longer stands still long enough to be grasped–especially when so many have applied their understanding of truth and even religion to the republican-democratic political realm?
Modernism answered that question with a shrug–truth becomes “experience,” doctrine becomes “evolution,” and certainty becomes “rigidity.” In other words, the ground deliberately disappears. And once the ground disappears, authority steps in and offers a rope–not to pull you out, but to keep you dangling.
The pattern is stunningly consistent. Leaders announce a position, reverse it, then half-reverse the reversal. They reveal alarming information, conceal it, then reveal just enough to keep concern alive. They rotate between outrage and reassurance like a metronome marking time. And we call this “leadership,” when in fact it’s a stabilized instability–the management of minds through alternating currents of fear and hope.
This was the architecture that carried the world through COVID–storm, sunlight, storm, sunlight. It’s the architecture behind so much political theater today. And it’s the architecture of the occult itself: before the initiate can be reshaped, he must be destabilized. Hope softens him; anxiety opens him. Back and forth he goes until he confuses movement with meaning.
And isn’t this precisely the psychological architecture of Modernism itself?
A rejection of fixed meaning.
A suspicion of permanence.
A preference for “living documents,” “evolving beliefs,” and “progressive revelation.”
If everything is evolving, then nothing is settled.
If nothing is settled, then authority becomes whoever narrates the evolution.
“Did God really say that? the serpent said to Eve.
The authority was the mob 2000 years ago, when it got Barrabas off the hook and crucified Christ.
None of this is new. Two thousand years ago, the crowd that cried “Hosanna!” on Sunday cried “Crucify him!” on Friday. Oscillation is as old as sin.
So here’s the ultimate Socratic question today: How much of what we call “leadership” today is actually just managed confusion to exhaust us?
And how much of our exhaustion comes not from the issues themselves, but from being emotionally yanked between two poles like a marionette made of noodles?
Perhaps the oldest trick in the book isn’t the outright lie, but controlled contradiction.
Perhaps the real spell is the rhythm–the one that keeps us looking outward instead of anchoring inward, or better yet, Godward.
The metronome of hope and despair is ever ticking….
And perhaps, just perhaps, the antidote is what Modernism hated most: fixed truth, unchanging reality, and a refusal to dance when the drumbeat isn’t coming from the order of God.
