Not only are liberals gone from Washington, soundly and roundly defeated by Donald Trump in November's election, but their way of thinking. Their faux idealism, diversity window dressing, and hand-wringing righteousness are on the curb, detritus, leavings of an elite banquet.
Everything about the last four years of the Biden Administration and the campaign of Kamala Harris was, despite their secularism and utopianism, surprisingly Christian. Progressives were evangelists, prophets, and missionaries of a new truth, true believers in a universal, all-encompassing messianic future of harmony, peace, and verdancy. They hectored like the prophets of the Old Testament, and shamed and cajoled new Christian waverers like Paul and his disciples. There is only one way, said Paul and progressives, and that is ours.
It was that seeping, weepy, cloying message that somehow went most against the grain. Religious to the core, Americans had a muscular faith, one of charisma, power, and glory not one of pedestrian sanctimony; and no matter how much the Left insisted on an inclusive communitarianism, its goodness, philosophical purity, and heaven-sent beauty, most Americans outside the coastal corridors wanted none of it.
As importantly they were tired of being patronized and assumed to be ignoramuses - social troglodytes incapable of getting the picture without harping lectures and the insistent images of black people in every ad, paraded and feted at Grammy and Oscar time, on every school dais. They were sick and tired of the hammering, the bludgeoning, and the preaching.
Over the years Middle America saw the institutions of government infected with this brand of Utopianism - schools, public health, the military, foreign affairs, and the interior. Every agency, every department was being transformed into a kindergarten of reformist ideals. Citizens were told how to behave, what to believe, and what to do to assure the promised land.
Donald Trump since his first appearance on the political stage rejected all of this. Not only did he oppose liberal policies of taxation, spending, governmental universalism, intemperate environmentalism, and an ideals-based foreign policy, but the way in which they were promoted and presented to the public - God's commandments on Mt. Arafat. It was this self-righteous, patronizing attitude that stuck most in Trump's craw.
The years of vilification, lawfare, tarring and feathering, the bastinado, and attempts to humiliate, denigrate, and destroy the former President were simply adding fuel to the fire, cementing his resolve, and confirming his intention to once and for all rid the country of insidious progressivism. His would be a complete revolution, not just window dressing of a few acceptable economic and financial reforms but an uprooting of the system and very insidious philosophy which had persecuted him and eroded the originalist principles of the nation.
Liberals were shocked and hysterical when within the first two weeks of his Presidency, he began the process of upheaval and structural reform. His shuttering the offices of USAID, an agency which for decades had bled taxpayer money on idealistic schemes of social betterment and looked the other way while it was siphoned off to Aruban bank accounts, Swiss chalets, and the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, was a long time in coming.
His associate, Elon Musk, in an uncompromising entree routed the bureaucracy, closed all doors, and took control of the purse. No more would this agency and its army of overpaid bureaucrats, do-gooders, and teat-sucking consultants be allowed to operate.
Foul! shouted liberals. You can't do that. It's illegal; but Trump knew exactly what he was doing. A bar-fighter from the streets of New York, a take-no-prisoners, chokehold real estate mogul made of intimidation, threat, and suggestion - the currency of the business - he shouted loud and clear to progressive whiners, 'So sue me'.
By the time the lawsuits make their way through the courts, USAID and a bevy of similar political, unproductive bureaucracies and their employees will be history.
Democrat lawfare and the attempt to put a former President in prison on phony, trumped up charges were nothing compared to this; and he was undaunted and unbowed. He would make good on his promises and would tear down progressive shibboleths, remake Independence and Constitution Avenues, and dig up pretentious institutions built over solid, Jeffersonian roots.
Oh, said progressives barely over the shock of electoral defeat at the hands of a madman and gobsmacked by his executive orders, what about the poor people, the displaced bureaucrats now jobless, homeless, and destitute? but the President was unmoved. There will always be casualties of war, and this was indeed was one. A price must be paid for years of waste, progressive idolatry, and looking-the-other-way morality.
The hypocrisy of the Left which distorted and abused the law, the Constitution, and due process in its illegal pursuit of Donald Trump was never more clear after his takeover of USAID. How could you? they shouted when they had been far more destructive of American principles and rules of law.
Trump's takeovers and remakes may eventually be challenged, but so what? The man's agenda, his promises to the American people, and his profound beliefs in the very idea of structural reformation are worth the risk; and after all, the courtroom is his friend.
Liberals are in a frenzy - their worst fears have been realized. A tyrant, a Hitler, a Stalinist, pogrom-hunting, stalag-minded dictator is now President of the United States and rolling out his tanks and halftracks in force.
What is happening is not this hysterical nightmare but needed institutional reform and a resetting of the moral compass. This president is not given to chicanery or a limp-wristed puleeze. He will not change the institutional architecture by dribs and drabs, rearranging the furniture but leaving rooms intact. He will destroy and replace.
'Get over it', Trump shouted to no one in particular from the balcony of 1700 Pennsylvania, but to all those naysayers, smarmy operatives, and faux idealists within hearing.
Back to our roots, the President said in a calmer moment referring to Wild West prairie justice, laissez-faire enterprise, and unbounded expansionist, territorial ambition. Nothing stood in the way of gunslingers, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan and the Union Army. The nanny era was over, the age of commiseration, daisy chain idealism, and petticoat policy done and gone.
'I'm back', said Trump. 'Get over it'.
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