BOOK REVIEW: “FINAL BATTLE” BY DAVID HOROWITZ

“FINAL BATTLE” BY DAVID HOROWITZ

BOOK REVIEW

REVIEWED BY STEPHEN L. D’ANDRILL AND ROGER J. KATZ

“Final Battle,” copyright 2022 by David Horowitz, is a wake-up call and an ominous warning for America’s patriots, 74 million citizens who voted for Trump in 2020.

“Elections [DO] matter.” That is the title of Chapter 1 of the book. The incoming President sets the tone for the Nation, and the Biden Administration would do just that.

What the Biden Administration has wrought is a complete reversal of Trump’s accomplishments. Biden reverted to the agenda of the Obama years—the agenda that Hillary Clinton would have carried out had the American people seen to it that she would not be allowed to carry on the destruction of the Country. The electorate voted in Donald Trump, an outsider, not connected with the Washington, D.C. political elite. Trump had slammed on the brakes of the Obama agenda—one that George W. Bush too had served.

Through manipulation of the electoral system, the forces that crush nations and people, sat their stooge in Office, a shell of a man; one who was and is corrupt and pliable, compliant, and ill-informed, a person physically and emotionally weak, suffering the onset of dementia. The worst person to serve as President of the United States, on a host of factors, especially personal traits. Biden is intellectually, emotionally, physically and physically weak. And he projects that weakness to the Country and the world, just as his benefactors want and expect. Biden is the perfect placeholder for those forces that seek to destroy the Nation. They require a willing manikin to serve as the public face of an America in the throes of weakness and malady. Biden’s Administration would return to completing the agenda that Bush and Obama had worked to achieve for their powerful and shadowy benefactors. But is this what the majority of the electorate truly wanted?  

Was the 2020 U.S. Presidential election fair and aboveboard? Hardly.

Horowitz does present a convincing argument, poking holes in any claim that the election was free and fair. And he succeeds without need to dwell on the technical aspects of a fraudulent election. He doesn’t have to. A few cogent remarks speak volumes:

“. . . when the 2020 election results were in, Trump outperformed every incumbent president before him. . . . in 2020, Trump miraculously increased his margin by 11.2 million votes, making his total of more than 74 million, the most votes ever cast for an American president. On the other hand, to believe that Biden had won, one would have to believe that a mentally challenged candidate, who campaigned from his basement, who could hardly sustain a train of thought and couldn’t get through a campaign speech without a teleprompter, whose crowds were generally in the low double-digits, while Trump was drawing thirty and fifty thousand supporters to his rallies—one would have to believe that this fumbling figure received nearly 12 million more votes than Barack Obama at his peak. . . . Biden’s margin of victory was still razor thin. Roughly 159 million total votes had been cast in the 2020 presidential election. Biden’s margin of victory was 43,000—or 0.027 percent of the total. If the votes illegally cast in Pennsylvania and two other battleground states had been properly thrown out by the courts, Trump would have won.”

Election fraud permeated the 2020 election. Apart from the fraud, the hypocrisy of the Democrats is also displayed.

Horowitz points out that Democrats had questioned Republican election victories in the past to decertify electors and attempt to reverse the result.

Democrats’ hypocrisy and double standard is revealed when it is now Republicans who made accusations about the conduct of the electoral process and raised cogent, sound, and reasonable arguments for investigation into irregularities and sought a suspension of the certification of the election results until an investigation into irregularities was conducted. Democrats would not hear of it and pounced.

Vice President Pence had the authority to call a halt to the certification process in the House. He didn’t. His failure to act might have been due to fear of reprisal from Democrats and the shadowy, sinister powers behind them, or it may be due to his own close connection with Bush Republicans, who are more tied to Democrats than they let on to be.

And now Pence is running for U.S. President himself. Who is he kidding? He has as much chance of gaining the Republican Party nomination as Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney. A better chance he would have if he ran as a Democrat. The idea of ‘voter fraud” isn’t in Pence’s lexicon.

But, when Trump talked about voter fraud in the election, Democrats and a sympathetic Press called it ‘the Big Lie, and likened Trump to Adolf Hitler.

The accusations were not only false, but insulting. Trump took it all in stride, as he had done numerous times in the past, as U.S. President. Trump has a character trait that many politicians lack: fortitude, and indomitable will, essential for a person who would serve the American people as U.S. President. Fortitude and will are traits wholly lacking in Biden.

Democrats and their silent, secretive benefactors are fearful of Trump. That explains why they continue to foment vehement attacks on him; why they continue to level civil lawsuits, and criminal charges against him, and why they mock and scold those tens of millions of people who voted for him, calling them “racist.”

But why is there so much frenetic energy and urgency surrounding this matter, if Democrats honestly believed the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was conducted fairly and was wholly aboveboard? Could it be they know the truth? They must know since they plotted to manipulate the process a couple of years before it even took place.

Substantial evidence points to serious irregularities and machinations in the election system. The bottom line is that Biden did not win the 2020 general election. Trump did. The Press should be investigating this matter itself. But it never did. It did the opposite. The Press is a party to a massive cover-up.

In his book, Horowitz also draws attention to the January 6, 2021 march on the U.S. Capitol Building. Democrats and the Press erroneously refer to as an “insurrection.” The word ‘insurrection’ is a legal term of art in the Federal Code.

There was no insurrection, and, while the Biden Administration has waged an unholy crusade against those Americans who marched to the U.S. Capitol Building that day, no one has been charged with insurrection.

Even so, Democrats drew up an article of impeachment against Trump, claiming that Trump’s actions on that day point to a scheme to take control of the Capitol Building to halt the counting of the electoral votes in the House.

But did Trump truly foment a scheme to take control of the Capitol Building with unarmed civilians or was the entire episode a “False Flag” operation that the Congressional Democrats and the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had concocted to serve as a pretext to launch an impeachment inquiry against him and to hound those who took part in it, serving as an example that, regardless of the fundamental right to dissent, the new order will not tolerate dissent, the Constitution be damned?  

That is a probing question the discerning reader will ask after perusing the book. It is one the Press avoids dealing with or denies if it mentions the matter at all. But it is one that Horowitz does not shy away from.

Horowitz writes that, when Trump called for a peaceful, patriotic protest at the Capitol, he offered 10,000 federal National Guard troops to provide safety and security, and that Democrats rejected the offer.

The Capitol Police failed to secure the perimeter and those protesters who did enter the building walked in unimpeded and unopposed.

Horowitz also points out that, contrary to the claims of Democratic Party and media reports, the protesters were not armed, and that three of the four deaths that occurred on January 6 were Trump supporters, and occurred as a result from stress-related causes or other medical natural causes, not from violence.

One person, a victim of homicide, was an unarmed female Air Force veteran. A Capitol police officer shot her. It was deliberate, unnecessary, unprovoked. A reporter caught the shooting on video. That reporter was thereafter arrested, and the footage confiscated. The Capitol Police did not release the identity of the officer.

The officer’s identity came to light much later in time, and he was exonerated after a secret Justice Department investigation, despite video evidence pointing to criminal homicide. 

Still, Democrats and their friends in the legacy Press insist on referring to the protest as an “armed insurrection” and have never veered from that narrative. But it was no such thing.

Moreover, the Capitol Police refused to release more than 14,000 hours of unedited video surveillance. Why is this content being kept away from the public? Don’t they have a right to see the video evidence for themselves? And, Fox News Host, Tucker Carlson, having obtained that video footage devoted an episode to the January 6 protest and lost his job because of that. And, why is that? Had he demonstrated the flaws in the narrative produced by the Democrats and by the Press? But do the powers behind the Democrats have sufficient control over the Murdoch publishing empire, too, that they can exert their will and power on all whom they choose and compel obedience? What does this all mean and what does it portend for us, American citizens?

House Speaker Pelosi subsequently ordered 25,000 armed troops to guard the Capitol Building at a cost of half a billion dollars of taxpayer money. Was that really necessary? Or was it theater, to frighten Americans? But she did relent. Was she ordered to do so because the optics were deemed unacceptable, suggesting that, yes, the United States is in the throes of Autocracy, but that fact should not yet be made evident to the people?

Pelosi later reduced the number of troops to 1,500. And those 1,500 troops would remain at the Capitol for more than four and one-half months.

On January 11, 2021, Democrats filed an article of impeachment against Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection”—the second such action against Trump, altogether legally unmerited, politically unwarranted, and certainly unprecedented.

The book serves as a scathing indictment against Democrats and the Biden Administration. But Horowitz leaves to the reader the inference to be drawn.

And the inference to be drawn is that Democrats, on behalf of their powerful, wealthy, and secretive benefactors, have succeeded in an unlawful, unconstitutional, and scurrilous coup d’état of the Federal Government. The Nation is definitely all the worse for it, suffering the consequences of it. And the horror commences with Biden’s inauguration speech. Horowitz writes,

“In his inauguration speech on January 20, Biden repeated this pledge: ‘Today on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation. . . . I will be a President for all Americans. I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did.’

Biden’s executive actions launched the most radical regime in American history, the very opposite of what he had promised voters during his presidential campaign. It announced that Biden was coming out as the leader of the radical left in his own party and would abandon all the promises of moderation he had made during his campaign.”

Horowitz devotes the bulk of the book to a discussion of the tremendous misdeeds of the President and the horrific effects of his Administration’s agenda that followed upon the reversal of Trump’s policies. These include, inter alia:

•  Stopping the construction of the southern border wall that “opened the southern border to what turned out to be an invasion by close to 2 million unknown and unvetted individuals from approximately 100 countries, including failed terrorist states,”

• Having “the United States rejoin the World Health Organization (WHO) from which Trump had withdrawn and [restoring] much of the nearly $500 million in funding for the WHO that Trump had cut off,”

• Cancelling the “‘1776 Commission project Trump had launched at the very end of this term . . . to oppose the Times’ 1619 Project, which was designed to portray America as a white supremacist nation from its origins,” and

• Creating “‘an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda’” that was unconstitutionally discriminatory on its face, as Biden intended for this program to apply only to select groups, excluding white Americans, especially poor white Americans,” which meant “a repudiation of America’s most essential value, enshrined in its birth certificate, which proclaimed that ‘all men are created equal,”

• Blaming gun dealers for spiking crime rates, all the while mollycoddling the criminal element and shackling the police.

• Blaming Trump for the devastation caused by the Coronavirus outbreak in America, and at once censoring speech to protect the actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who bears significant responsibility for the pandemic, for Fauci was instrumental in funding “gain of function” research in China which he continues to deny despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary,

• Engaging in “the biggest, most destructive spending spree ever,”

• Denying responsibility for the disastrous withdrawal of American forces in Afghanistan, which also involved abandoning billions of dollars of sophisticated weaponry, delivering this weaponry “into enemy hands,” and

• Shredding Trump’s achievements in the Middle East.

The last chapter of the book, “Final Battle,” is titled, “Where Are We Headed?” Horowitz recites the concern of many of us when he asks, “Is American already an empty shell of its greater self, and are its days already numbered?” The question is meant to be rhetorical. Horowitz says,

“Only a fool would say, with any certainty, no. Barbarian terrorist forces are already at the gates, and inside them, American leaders—both military and civilian—are preoccupied with delusional threats that are said to be existential—climate change, white supremacy, patriotic extremism. But the greatest existential threat to American democracy is the drive by the Democrat Party to create a one-party socialist state—a fascist state. This is manifest in their assault on the First Amendment through so-called ‘cancel culture,’ and their collusion in the deplatforming a president of the United States and his 74 million supporters.”

The central theme of the book is that upward of one-third of the Nation is being systematically ostracized, persecuted and abandoned. Reference to this 74 million Americans is mentioned throughout the book.

Horowitz doesn’t say it, but it becomes apparent that he justifiably thinks it: the Federal Government has devolved into tyranny, and a type of tyranny that suggests this Country is taking orders from malevolent, malignant, ruthless but also inordinately wealthy, powerful, and well-organized forces outside it, a type of totalitarianism unlike the classic totalitarianism of the past, where individuals wielded immense power.

The powers directing this present totalitarianism are unknown, and they wish to keep their identities private. Sheldon Wolin coined the expression “inverted totalitarianism” to describe this new totalitarianism. It is this sort that Americans see overlaid on our Republic.

The Biden Administration has come into Office manifestly unlawfully, and the purpose for doing so is manifestly to corrupt and destroy the Nation and he is obviously working for others, benefactors whom the public is not permitted to see. He is a messenger boy, nothing more, and not particularly adept one as he is hardly an adroit speaker. But he is reliable and easily controlled, and his manifold weaknesses reflect what is meant to be projected to the world: a Nation in decline. The differences between an America under Biden and an American under Trump are stark. One need only look to a Country that was well on the way to recovery under Trump whose policies and initiatives aligned perfectly with his campaign slogan to “Make America Great Again.”

This was the very thing the Biden Administration and its secret benefactors would have none of. Not content to simply ignore Trump’s campaign slogan and the import of it, the Administration denigrated it, treated it as an obscenity, and, in so doing, made clear that, far from making American great again, they intend to destroy the Nation, reduce it to rubble, further evidencing that the Biden Administration is not directing its efforts and resources for the benefit of the Country and the American people for the detriment of both, actively, avidly directing efforts and resources to destroy it, s

The horrible effects of the Administration’s policies cannot be ascribed to ineptitude and incompetence, alone, nor to events beyond the control of the Administration, for they are shapping those events. The Administration has orchestrated a scheme to weaken and drain the vital health out of the Nation: economically, financially, societally, militarily, geopolitically.

David Horowitz doesn’t say this expressly, but it is another inference to be drawn. The book is replete with evidence for it. The evidence is made explicit in the extensive documentation that the author provides in his book. The Country reels from the extent of the damage to the Nation, its people, and to the Constitution the Biden Administration has wrought. One need only look to the effects of the Administration’s policies and to the people that serve in high office in that Administration. They are not only ill-equipped intellectually, lacking native ability and experience. They lack moral scruples, integrity. Many have serious psychological issues, yet wield immense power over the Country, its institutions, and its people. Selected on the basis of and consistent with the dogma of “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion,” percolating through the Government and the Country, Americans see well, the extensive damage to people, institutions, and government, wrought through implementation of this dogma.

74 million of us, though, roughly one-third of adult population of voting age, have had enough of Biden, his Administration, and those elements both here and abroad they are beholden to that have made their intentions known, and those intentions do not have our Nation’s best interests at heart.

Horowitz references these 74 million voters and supporters of Donald Trump throughout the book.

In the last couple of paragraphs of his book, David Horowitz, summarizes the damage already done to this Nation. And makes poignantly clear that any American who objects to the ravaging of the Nation will be the next target. He writes,

“They have pressed for the dismantling of the system of checks and balances, which has been the bulwark of the American democracy for over 240 years. They have done this by demonizing their domestic political opponents, attempting to abolish the Electoral College, and pushing to abolish the filibuster and to pack the Supreme Court; they have attacked the integrity of the electoral system by opposing voter IDS; they have assaulted anyone who questions election results as enemies of American democracy; and they have replaced America’s liberating culture of individualism with a tribal identity politics that undermines the foundations of the constitutional system. Finally, while handing the Islamic terrorists their greatest victory since 9/11, they have sought to attack and discredit their democratic opponents as ‘domestic extremists’ and terrorists. Their zealous advocacy of socialist economics and political fascism sets us on the path to a totalitarian future. All that awaits the sad conclusion to these efforts are the gulags and deprogramming camps, which are not shy about promoting.”

The last sentence is particularly ominous. Is it prophetic? Consider the words of Donald Trump, in a speech he gave to his supporters in Columbus, Georgia on June 10, 2023, after Biden’s DOJ dared to bring charges against him, a former U.S. President—a thing never before seen in our Nation’s history. Trump said, “. . . in the end, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you — and I'm just standing in their way. . . .

Who the hell would vote for them with the policies that they have of open borders and no voter ID? . . .

Can you imagine if it was the other way around? . . . They spied on my campaign and we caught them. They forge false evidence to get illegal surveillance warrants. The FBI offered $1 million for a fictitious dossier written by a foreign spy. To try to frame me for it.

They're trying to do it again.

‘These people don't stop and they're bad and we have to get rid of them . . . . We have to get rid of them ourselves.

If it's somebody else, that person will not be able to withstand the fire . . . . If it's not me, you know it'll be somebody else .  . . that fire doesn't stop just with me. That fire is going to go on against any conservative, any Republican anybody other than them. Because they want the power. They actually want to destroy our country. I believe that because there could be no other reason.”

It is uncanny how Trump’s speech echoes the concerns in the Horowitz book.

Both Trump, and Horowitz, and many other people, 74 million strong, know a violent storm is on the horizon. The coming U.S. Presidential election may well be our last, as Horowitz warns. But the “Final Battle” for the Nation’s Soul may not be the 2024 election results, but what comes after if Biden or someone like him secures the Office of U. S. President and continues the disastrous policies of the Biden Administration. A possible physical, not merely metaphorical, conflagration is in the offing.

There are, then, two possibilities for the future of the Nation, and only one of them can exist.

The American people may see the promise of the American Revolution of 1776 preserved in 2024 and thereafter. That is one possibility.

The second possibility is that the American people will witness a Neoliberal Globalist/Neo-Marxist Counterrevolution that will overthrow a truly Free Constitutional Republic that came about and that had flourished as a result of the American Patriots’ success in overthrowing the tyranny of the British Monarch, George III.

The Counterrevolution is in our midst. Americans now see firsthand the inklings of what it means, of what it portends. If it succeeds, America as a free Republic will cease to exist. And an American citizenry too will cease to exist. All vestige of an independent sovereign Nation and a free Constitutional Republic, and a sovereign people will come to an abrupt halt, and once gone, all of it will be gone forever.

Perhaps a few trappings of a free Republic here and there will be allowed to exist for a time, lest the public fall into despondency, leading to catatonia. But soon enough, even those trappings will be eliminated, no longer necessary, as the young people growing up today in tyranny will know nothing of freedom. A few of them may feel a pang now and again of the past, despite indoctrination. They may have a fleeting recollection of a once free and sovereign people—through an ancestral memory floating briefly and vaguely to the surface of their mind, but that will pass.

Whatever does come to pass, that rests with the American people. To capitulate to the forces behind the Biden Administration is to betray those who fought and died to create a free Republic, having successfully overthrown tyranny and to betray those Americans who, through the succeeding years and decades and centuries, had fought and died to preserve a free Republic.

Those Americans who think they can sit this one out have, by their non-action, taken a stand against the promise of our American Revolution, and deserve to feel the pain that comes to haunt him because of their indifference. And they will suffer pain and remorse. But it will be too late for them. Unfortinately, it will be much to late for us, too, who do understand and cherish the greatness of our Country and people, and who cherish our history, heritage, culture, ethos, and Judeo-Christian ethic, and who understand and cherish the significance of our fundamental rights, codified in the Bill of Rights of our Nation’s Constitution.

Only a Trump Presidency can now protect and secure and preserve a free Constitutional Republic for us, against those intent on destroying us, using stooges like Biden and others in his Administration to carry out their edicts.

It will be difficult to read through the David Horowitz Book without coming away with the realization that, yes, in fact, Americans are facing their “Final Battle.”

The book is an easy read, but it does not entertain. It wasn’t meant to. And for many Americans, it confirms much of what we believe to be true but offers documentary proof to support what many of us believe, transforming our beliefs into knowledge—uncomfortable knowledge, to be sure, but convincing knowledge, nonetheless.

For many other people the book provides eye-opening information that will shatter any preconceived notion that the 2020 electoral process was conducted fairly, that, having taken Office, Biden and his Administration have done a good job for the Nation and for the pepple, and that any bad consequences that have befallen us, are not his fault or the fault of his Administration.

Those readers who hate Trump should instead direct that hatred onto Biden and his Administration. They have severely weakened this Country, exploiting it on behalf of others, and obtaining personal reward for their betrayal. This will make recovery difficult, especially in matters of foreign policy. On that front, Biden and his Administration has devastated this Nation, placing both it and the world in a singularly precarious situation. It is impossible to read the Horowitz book and not see this.

To the rest of the world, the United States appears weak. That does not bode well for the security of the Nation and the world. The perception of weakness, in a once strong Nation that friendly nations had gained support from and that adversaries respected, means that many countries, both great and small, will use the signal of a weak United States to engage in warfare against their neighbors and will challenge the U.S., as China and Iran, have now done. Under Trump, this would never have happened. And during the four years that he was in Office, the United States would not engage in another war, and those countries that have warlike tendencies were careful about acting on those tendencies. With Biden the world has a completely different perspective, and the damage done to this Nation’s security and to the security of the world is painfully clear.

Biden has placed the world in a state of extraordinary tension that can explode at any moment into a full blown Global Thermonuclear conflagration.

David Horowitz’s book establishes Joe Biden’s incompetence and that of his senior officials. More, the book raises the specter that this incompetence is so wide in scope and extreme in impact that the fact of them can only be explained as deliberate, as difficult it may be, for many Americans, to accept. That raises the question who or what is behind the Biden Administration’s actions to destroy our Country, and the reason for this. The damage deliberately done to the Nation cannot rationally be attributed to Biden people. They wouldn’t dare. Powerful interests, here and abroad, must be orchestrating planned destruction of the Nation.

The Arbalest Quarrel has speculated on this. For there must be an answer. A demented fool for President and the implementation of policies designed to harm the Nation don’t just happen. They happen for a reason. And that reason is found somewhere beyond a consideration of Biden and his Administration alone.

There must be powerful but unseen forces behind the horrific events that have unfolded since Biden took office of which he and his Administration have implemented but that, on a higher plane of influence, these secretive others have devised and fed to the Biden Administration. “Final Battle” alludes to this and urges the public to secure their Nation from buffoons and charlatans and corrupt officials that would sell out our Country for a little gold and for the chance to wear the trappings of power.

The first order of business is to make sure our electoral system is fair, honest, and aboveboard. If the public doesn’t have faith in the electoral process, then faith in our Republic is weakened. But how does the public demand an overhaul of the electoral process and how might the public know, really know, that our elections are conducted fairly? And assuming the public can faith in the electoral system, it is then imperative that Americans vote, and that they vote into office a person that will protect our Nation and promote policies that do not impede one’s personal growth, responsibility, and chance of success. Under Biden this is impossible. Under Trump it is not only possible. It has occurred. During the first term of his Presidency, he began to turn America around to its once greater glory—and this was all the remarkable given the efforts to harm him and to sabotage his policies and initatives.

Once he is in Office he will be more careful when nominating individuals to Cabinet Level positions, and, even though it will take effort to rebuild what Biden has destroyed, he can still make American great again.

Trump will beat these recent ridiculous lawsuits and criminal charges against him. He will gain the Republican Party nomination. He is and will remain the front runner. And once he gains the nomination, it is imperative that the voting public vote for him. Whatever biases a person has about the man, consider what four years of his Presidency have brought: a secure economy, a safe and secure world, and pronounced faith in our Nation’s history, heritage, culture, ethos, and Judeo-Christian moral system. Compare that with what just two years of Biden has brought for America and its people. And Biden has another year and a half to go, to continue the destruction of the Country on behalf of his secretive and powerful benefactors to whom he is beholden, having betrayed the Oath of Office he has taken.

Read the Horowitz book, “Final Battle.” What Horowitz has to say may not be what some wish to hear. But it is the truth. And for most of us, there is value in that.