Message from Meidas Founder: Trump Collapsing

Written by Ben Meiselas

Hey MeidasMighty,

It’s Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network and host of the number one most downloaded podcast in America with my brothers Brett and Jordy.

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Let’s not mince words about what is taking place, OK. Trump and Musk now lead a repressive and authoritarian regime.

America is no longer a democracy under them.

Trump and Musk are engaged in a constitutional coup to shred our founding documents and remove the separation of powers. They are tyrants.

Republicans in the House and Senate are complicit co-conspirators in the coup.

These are evil people who hate our democracy and hate our freedoms.

They want us to be sick, weak, poor, starving, angry, begging, and Russian.

Let’s be clear-eyed and not talk around this.

Why are they doing this? Because they are sick and cruel people. That’s why.

For them, money isn’t so much even a measure of wealth as it is a tool to inflict suffering, which gets them off. In Putin, they see the ultimate manifestation of evil that they relish. The torture, pain, and hate are not a bug—it’s their desire and final solution.

Once we identify the problem with clear language like this, we can solve for it—just as one must identify the disease before devising the cure.

We cannot normalize the behavior we are witnessing or treat it as business as usual. And I believe one of the reasons the MeidasTouch Network has been growing is because we call it what it is. Even if that pisses people off, so be it.

This is a time for fearless resistance.

Trump and Musk did not believe America was capable of mounting an effective resistance to their “shock and awe” campaign of government bulldozing.

For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen in place, expecting politicians and institutions to do something—anything at all.

Americans were used to “checks and balances” and “guardrails” working.

That didn’t happen.

But recently, something clicked.

People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands.

People saw Trump and Musk gutting our government, destroying our institutions, destroying our international standing and alliances, and intentionally crashing our economy.

Trump, Musk, and their authoritarian regime were inflicting cruel and unusual punishment on us, the people.

This past week, it seems that Americans made a major breakthrough in our shared resistance.

Trump, Musk, and their MAGA ghouls poked and prodded you. They diced and sliced your hopes and aspirations. They used and abused you.

They trashed veterans and disabled Americans.

They came for your Medicaid, your healthcare, your dignity, and your happiness.

They tried to break you.

You didn’t break.

The will of the American people solidified this week. People stopped looking for a superhero and realized that they were the fighters they were looking for. And people started rising up.

When history is written about the downfall of Trump, this week will be viewed as the start of an energy not seen before in American history. It’s an energy that hasn’t been felt before because Americans have never had to confront an overtly authoritarian regime on our soil.

When our history is written, I believe this week will be remembered as the moment when the real silent majority of Americans understood the assignment.

We know that what is to come won’t be easy, but we see a path to victory.

It’s not a coincidence that this week, the MeidasTouch Network dethroned Joe Rogan on podcast downloads and Fox on digital platforms.

We’ve been trying our best to keep people in the fight against Trump and Musk and not give up, and it really felt like this week, people got it—and collectively said: ENOUGH!

We’ve been following the town halls in red and blue districts alike, where real patriotic Americans of all political parties are letting politicians know how angry they are about how Trump and Musk have destroyed America.

People are livid that Musk and his team of 19- to 25-year-olds have been invading our privacy, taking sensitive records, destroying government departments and agencies, and firing people in the most cruel ways imaginable.

People are livid at Trump’s press conferences where he blames the surging inflation and crashing markets on former President Biden. We know that under Biden, our 401(k)s were up, prescription drug prices were down, jobs were plentiful, and we didn’t worry about daily chaos or planes crashing seemingly all the time. Trump, the perennial con artist and fraud, has lied about everything, and people know it now.

People of all different political affiliations are uniting.

Trump’s approval ratings are crashing and are now the worst in the history of the Gallup Poll for this time in a presidency.

Trump is compounding the hatred of him with his sick and twisted stunts—calling himself a king, using tens of millions of our tax dollars to vacation, golf, or ride around a racetrack in his motorcade.

Trump is a sick, demented, evil human who deserves zero respect. We will show him none, since he shows our country none while running around to promote our enemies like Putin.

Trump and Musk believed all resistance would be crushed by now, and they are getting more desperate as the pressure cooker they created—or, should I say, the dam they defunded—is ready to burst.

There are no historical analogs to this moment in American history.

Instead of viewing this as some curse, let’s consider ourselves fortunate that history has brought each and every one of us here together. We have each other. We still have the ability to fight. Our numbers and momentum are growing. We are fortunate because we have the opportunity to deliver the decisive blow against a movement of hate and destruction that has taken root in America.

I can just feel it in the air.

It’s a spirit.

It’s a fervor.

It’s an energy.

It’s the discombobulated stew of splattered remnants of the melting pot of the American dream yearning to find its equilibrium again.

It’s the patriotism.

It’s duty. It’s a calling.

It’s all of these things and more, and it’s here right now.

We didn’t choose to be here in this moment in history, but we are being called to action now.

When I watch Trump’s speeches these days, I see weakness. How about you?

I see a pathetic and scared person yearning to be a “strongman” but who knows he’s just a two-bit conman with Putin impostor syndrome.

He is terrified of us, the people, and his house of cards is collapsing fast. I expect a “Bunker Boy” Spring.

We are lucky to have you on our team in this moment in history.

We need you on our team.

The growth of the MeidasTouch Network is because of you, the MeidasMighty. It’s that simple.

You are sharing our videos on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok with everyone you know each day, and you are sharing this Substack with everyone as well.

You are always telling others about the MeidasTouch Network.

We are gaining hundreds of thousands of new subscribers each day because of you.

You have made the MeidasTouch Network the leader of all independent media, and we hope we are making you proud by fearlessly meeting the moment to stand up to the authoritarian Trump and Musk regime.

From the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep, I promise you: I will put it all on the line each day.

I want our country to experience love, shared empathy, happiness, success, and objective truth again.

I will fight and sacrifice everything to get our Constitution and our democracy back.

This is what this moment calls for.

Thank you for reading this and thanks for fighting with us.

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