We are less than a week into the Trump 2.0 Administration. The pace is frenetic and wonderful to watch. There are too many actions to account for them all in one Op Ed. So far, so good. It’s fascinating and fun to watch the Executive Branch function so forcefully for good. Congress has to do its job and pour institutional concrete with changes in the US Code and severe cuts in spending.
Maybe an aspiring Pol Sci student could see how many Executive Branch actions line up with infamous Project 2025 proposals. It’d be fun to see the results. As one of many contributing writers to Project 2025, I don’t even know if any of my words made it to whatever final products, if any, went over to the Trump Transition Team at the America First Institute.
I must admit I was so far from the centers of power that I didn’t know the role the America First Institute (AFI) plays. Last year, during two lobbying trips to Capitol Hill focused on a new Administration in ’25, AFI never came up. Who knew? Not I.
Yet, I’m quite happy to keep cheering from the cheap seats. As an old Pol Sci Assistant Professor and lifelong political junkie, it is more entertaining than anything Hollywood could produce. We are witnesses to an inflection point in History playing out.
My parents were teenagers when a similar story with a different tilt moved America Left with FDR’s grand coalition. The creation of the welfare state and many grasps for as much socialism as possible was masqueraded as crisis response to the Great Depression.
In fact, FDR made everything worse. Before Americans figured it out, World War II’s war of national survival demanded even more centralized government control. Moreover, the necessity and subsequent success of the “Good” War gave governments a cloak of respectability, competence, and blind faith loyalty.
It took until 1980 for that myth to be burst. Reagan said, ”Government isn’t the solution. Government is the problem.”
Reagan created an alternative to the statists on the Left. While he helped crush the Soviet Empire and win the Cold War, Reagan didn’t offer a war plan to destroy the American Left.
After the end of the Soviet Union, the Left shape-shifted from Classical Marxism to Cultural Marxism. Race substituted for Class in Marxist theology.
The American Left embraces the ideology of Human Secularist Totalitarianism. Consequently, my sobriquet of “Commie” or “Bolshevik” is appropriate, even if the people who call themselves “Democrats” take offense. The Left shares the worldview of the French Revolution. They use the language of the American Revolution, but Conservatives alone hold the worldview of the American Revolution.
Today, President Donald J. Trump leads a coalition bigger than FDRs. It is pragmatic, not Conservative, in its ideology. It is peopled by many Conservatives, but not exclusively so.
Trump 2.0 is using sledge hammers to make common sense changes. In a stark commentary on our time, simple common sense is the antithesis of what the Democrats did in the Obama and Biden administrations.
In making simple, pragmatic changes, Trump 2.0 is knocking Cultural Marxism back hard. Eliminating DEI and CRT from the Federal Government won’t eradicate Cultural Marxism nationwide, but it is a great set back to the Bolsheviks.
The biggest challenge before the 2026 elections where the Republicans could lose power in Congress, is the Republicans themselves. The great majority of Republicans in Congress are Establishment Republicans. Career Politicians. Campaign Conservatives. Their one skill set is knowing how to get elected. Establishment Republicans kowtow to Trump when he is power. Just like they followed Bush II, the Speakers and Majority Leaders when they were in power, to grow government and spend the US towards bankruptcy.
The same Republicans fully funded the NGOs facilitating the illegal alien invasion in every Biden Administration budget “deal”.
In the next two years the Republicans in Congress must support the paper house of Presidential Executive Orders with legislative concrete.
Make it as hard as possible to prevent the next Bolshevik regime from putting all things crazy, all things which don’t work, or all things which work opposite of what’s intended back in command of the Federal Government.
The Executive Branch is already off and racing ahead. Time for the Legislative Branch to saddle up.
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