The revolution continues. Three plus weeks in and Trump has hit to the heart of the deep state – cash. Turn off the cash, and amazing things happen. Twitter/X is now wall to wall wailing of Democrat progressives because their billions, maybe trillions of funding to their patrons is suddenly being cut. Thanks to Elon Musk and the brain kids retained to seek out and identify all the rot. I’d compare it to a parasite; Elon is just the brain pointing out the super corrupt, super massive bureaucratic deep state, basically a huge blood sucking parasite latched onto the American people. There’s a panic in the air but it’s not just in Trump and Elon disrupting the Deep State. It’s not even in a catastrophic loss of funding for woke causes and leftist disruptions formatted, literally, around the entire globe. It’s not even just about their stars, champions, enforcers and spies losing their jobs, security clearances, and such. What comes next will be even bigger: the revealed bribes, kickbacks, and the coming prosecutions. And ultimately, the lasting impression made on the American public, to learn just how corrupt their own government was, entirely hijacked by a leftist kleptocracy . Democrats already have a rupture in their party. What happens as their base is forced to see what even they were never allowed to see, like the kindly villagers living next to concentration camps, never knowing what went on inside? What happens when all their marginal support bolts for the door…for a generation, or forever?
In week one, Trump took historic action that made him the most consequential President in a generation. By week two, a fair argument could be made to suggest he had bested all of those from the twentieth century forward. Now, at about the end of week three and four, there are signs that his breakdown and rebuild of American government will put him in the company of America’s founders, ie Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln. One does not have to agree with his every move or even like Trump to understand the scope and reach of his remake of the State and returning it to the people to whom it once belonged. In modern times, Ronald Reagan is often considered the gold standard of a conservative President. He was regarded as the patron saint of conservatives in our age. Trump has eclipsed him, hands down, by week three, in the forty seventh Presidential term. Reagan was a polite and engaging President, also greatly hated by the left. He trimmed back the old guard government enough to usher in a decade of prosperity; he did so over the course of two terms. Trump, with Elon Musk’s help is cutting out a parasite that was embedded down to the bone of the American creature. The job is hardly started, but there it is, spread out there on the operating table, week three. This administration has gone twice as deep in three weeks as Reagan did in in his entire two terms.
It is said in a maxim: if you endeavor to kill the king, don’t miss. This bit of practical advice is grounded in the grisly reality that any would be failed assassin, literal or metaphorical, would be the subject of the most extraordinary reprisals. Setting aside the literal assassination attempts for a moment, we are watching this play out on a scale, speed and scope, perhaps never seen in American history. Trump has played the blitzkrieg card and taken pack swaths of government beyond the wildest imagination of any of his living or dead peers, and his enemies. Thinking back to less than a month ago – seems so long ago – how cute Joe Biden felt signing all those executive orders, throwing out monopoly money in thick wads so to speak; benefitting his friends and likely ensuring reciprocation toward his family forever. I can’t swear to it, but I believe a great deal of that is already cancelled. If only Joe and his puppeteers had half the imagination and a tenth of the energy of Donald Trump. A curious irony here is that should a Progressive President ever take office again anytime soon, it’ll take far more work to re-spend, re-fund, re-staff, and re-build what Trump is simply eliminating, functionally, forever. Building a criminal enterprise, discovering and demolishing it, and then rebuilding it are not symmetrical. For added measure, once some of these agencies are unhoused and spread out to the hinterlands, it’ll take years to rebuild what Trump is undoing in literally days.
When you look at what’s unfolding almost daily right now, you get the sense that you’re witnessing greatness. How else do explain the trembling, acquiescence, and honor paid as tribute to Trump from world leaders, even before he took the oath of office? You can be as partisan as you like but even a flaming progressive would have to admit that Biden never commanded such respect even one day of his term office.
There are four assassination attempts on Presidents that are readily known and acknowledge by today’s living generation: Lincoln, Kennedy, Reagan, Trump. There might seem to be a correlation between the desperation of these President’s killers or would be killers, and the extraordinary legacy they left, and with Trump, that he is now leaving on the country. The ultimate validation?
After week one, some commentator declared that Trump should be carved onto Mt. Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln. At the moment, that seemed over-the top, at least to me. While I still have reservations about changing the cumulative historical and aesthetic qualities of the original carvings, it’s only taken a few more weeks for me to realize that Trump belongs in that company. I firmly believe that had Kamala Harris won the election, by hook or by crook, that the advanced decay we observed under Biden, much of it now being revealed by the DOGE and other administration officials, this would have progressed to a full collapse under Harris. America would have ended. In a very real way, Trump has secured our survival and prosperity for his term but likely also for much longer. It took multiple generations to build the Deep State. Knowing what we know now and have learned, it may never be possible to rebuild unless our children fall into forgetfulness. At some point in the not-too-distant future, we’ll look back and realize that the force of one man alone saved the nation.
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