An Apparent Contradiction

For several years I've criticized the federal government as operating unlawfully, and I've called for the states and the people to ignore it while re-asserting more of their sovereignty. More recently, I've been advocating President Trump and delighting in his use of federal power to vex the corrupt establishment and its useful-idiot followers, who comically identify themselves as idealists. So, what's going on here? Am I in favor de-centralization, or do I hypocritically favor centralization when it happens to suit me?

My main concern always has been the American nation, which my ancestors founded as a refuge from the lawless, tyrannical, and immoral hellholes everywhere else in the world. They established the federal government merely as a means to an end, as stated in the Preamble:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The federal government was made to serve me and the other descendants (the "posterity") of that incredible generation. It was made for us, not we for it. Given that the federal government has lost sight of this by exceeding its enumerated powers, abusing us with unlawful regulations and wealth transfers, and exposing us to ruin by opening the floodgates to invaders from around the world, the nation has every right to invoke and reclaim its primacy.

However crude he might be, Trump has given voice to the nation in at least one respect, which is preserving this soil for us rather than let it degenerate into a fleabag hotel for every Tom, Dick, and Harry on Earth to use as they wish. If Trump can make the federal government serve the nation in such a vital matter that precedes all others, I can't help but support him in that effort. I wish Trump were more of a constitutionalist and sought to slash all unlawful federal programs, but the nation has late-stage cancer, and removing that many tumors at once would be too much for any public official to attempt.

Another reason I support Trump is that his enemies, who are legion, are poised to tear the house down around their own ears in order to destroy him. If they fail, the nation will benefit through Trump's efforts. If they succeed, they will merely undermine the legitimacy of the system, and the nation will be emboldened to assert itself more directly.

So, I support Trump because no matter the outcome for him as an individual, the nation as a whole gains ground.