NEO: Trump’s second term so far: I guess this is what “draining the swamp” looks like.
There’s so much going on that I can’t cover everything in depth. What I’ve been doing, and what I plan to keep doing, is concentrating on the efforts I find most interesting or important, and also providing overviews such as this one. And of course links such as these:
From Ace, “USAID and the CIA Funded Trump’s First Impeachment.”
At Legal Insurrection, “US State Department Recalls All USAID Staffers from Foreign Assignments.”
From The Federalist, “The Constitution Vindicates Trump’s Firing Of 17 Inspectors General.”
From The Federalist, “If Presidents Can’t Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake.”
There’s much, much more.
It’s also one thing to make light of the reaction of the left, such as “heads are exploding.” But there’s really nothing light about this. The press and the left are labeling it a coup, a dictatorship, an illegal takeover. The grounds for believing that – even on the part of relatively moderate Democrats – have been prepared for many many years. This is an extremely volatile situation.
Interesting times.
Indeed. And note the formulation the left is making by calling Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy a “coup:”
If it’s a coup, who is Trump taking power from? https://t.co/pTbSQNjlNU
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 6, 2025
For once in his life, Reich is actually right about something. A “coup d’etat” is a brief and bloodless revolution. In America, we have those every four or eight years — they’re called elections.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Reader John Steakley writes: “Anyone shocked at why Trump did far better than expected with sub-30 voters need only look at videos like this of a balding, unshaven, eye-bagged, multi-sweatered Robert Reich ranting hyperbolically about Trump. To the sub-30 voter, if Grandpa Reich and Grandma Pelosi are against something, then it’s probably something new and cool that the sub-30 voter should check out. Just because Reich is ranting from home nowadays doesn’t mean he can’t shave, comb his hair, and don a collared shirt. Instead, he looks like he’s sitting in the corner of a nursing home waiting for his mid-afternoon pudding delivery. That’s not how you win over the sub-30 voters.”
Or anyone else.