Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Musk to cut hundreds of Dept. of Ed. contracts, saving $1 billion

                                                    


Matt Lamb - Associate Editor •February 11, 2025     •     THE COLLEGE FIX

 

Leader of Department of Government Efficiency cuts DEI-focused contracts

American taxpayers may soon be off the hook soon for 29 DEI grants and other Department of Education spending.

Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency, and its team of Gen Z software engineers identified hundreds of Education Department grants focused on DEI and other spending it deemed wasteful.

The contracts, numbering over 100, work out to around $1 billion in savings.

“One sought to train teachers to ‘help students understand / interrogate the complex histories involved in oppression, and help students recognize areas of privilege and power on an individual and collective basis,’” the DOGE X account announced last night.

The Dept. of Ed., which Trump may soon try to dissolve anyways, also “terminated 89 contracts worth $881mm,” according to an announcement from Musk’s team.

The cuts also appear to shut down the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm within the department.

The think tank funded a study on how to encourage “empowerment” for homosexual and transgender high schoolers, as previously reported by The College Fix.

Conservatives praised the initiative in comments on X.

“DEI was never about ‘equity’—it was about enforcing ideological conformity and institutionalizing discrimination,” Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily wrote. “Shutting down these wasteful, divisive programs is a win for every student. More states need to follow suit.”

“Not a bad start,” Adam Kissel, former deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Education, wrote in response.

“The kids can’t read,” conservative activist Erika Donalds, the wife of Congressman Byron Donalds, wrote on X.

The cuts come ahead of a planned confirmation hearing Thursday for Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the DOE.

The department has poured at least $1 billion into DEI initiatives at K-12 schools since 2021, according to a report from Parents Defending Education.

The Fix previously reported:

For example, the University of Iowa received a $1.2 million grant to train elementary school teachers to “enact equity-centered education” in their school districts, according to the report.

Another $4 million grant to the University of California San Diego funded a program called The LISTEN with the aim of increasing high school participation among “low-income, racial minoritized groups.”

A curriculum linked to the program has students examine the “origins, perpetuation, impact, intersectionality, and levels … of systemic and structural oppression (racism/white supremacy, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and xenophobia …” the report found.

“Equity appears to be the most important priority for this Department of Education,” Caroline Moore, vice president of PDE, previously told The Fix.

MORE: New research identifies more than 1,100 DEI-related jobs at University of Michigan

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Trump Broke These People


Everyone knows someone broken by the elections of President Donald Trump, be it an old friend, co-worker or family member. These people were probably not all that bright in the first place, you just never bothered to look beyond the surface because going deeper didn’t really matter. After the 2016 election, politics became everything to the left as their leaders realized how easily these followers could be manipulated. They raised a ton of money off the “threat” Trump presented while claiming credit for holding off the “destruction” he was going to bring. 

Always over the horizon, just out of sight, is the “end of democracy” they kept at bay. That liberal leaders use this tactic is not surprising, despots have always used this tool (see the anti-Semitism in the Middle East, as corrupt government turn the population they’re ripping off against Jews by convincing them Isreal is the reason for their problems). That its existence is known and it still works is a testament to the failures of the public education system.

That brings us to the area in between. There are some people you know are in on the joke and know exactly what they’re doing – Rachel Maddow and Nancy Pelosi are shameless frauds engaging in rhetorical propaganda that has Goebbels blushing in Hell, and they’re proud of it – and there are others – Eric Swalwell, AOC, etc. – not bright enough to know what they’re doing, but happy to do it.

Operating somewhere between those two camps are the people you can’t tell if they’re tools or an architect of this propaganda.

I have no doubt that Brian Stelter is not a bright man, he’s never once said anything remotely insightful or interesting, which is a sort of accomplishment since my 6- and 7-year-olds do so regularly, if only by accident. That being said, Brian is the type of person I often find myself embarrassed on behalf of – he doesn’t know, or care, how beyond the domain of self-awareness something he says it, he simply plows through like Mr. Magoo blissfully unaware of the destruction in his wake.

I have difficulty believing someone so obtuse can exist outside of cartoons, but there he is, always.

During the Super (Boring) Bowl, Stelter tweeted, “Think about it: A year ago you could go days without seeing or thinking about Joe Biden. Now you’re lucky if you can go hours without thinking about President Trump. He’s inescapable. And that’s just how he likes it. Today: The Super Bowl is also the Trump Bowl.”

A year ago we had a President incapable of having a conversation outside of the 10 am till 4 pm window, and then only some of the time, and the Stelters of the world did all they could to normalize it. Biden was hiding, he was busy doing the job of presidenting, or something. 

Back in 2018, CNN’s Weeble was roundly mocked for repeatedly wondering where the then First Lady was, as she hadn’t held any public events in a couple of weeks. Melania Trump, easily the best looking First Lady ever and a former model, was ignored by every magazine that slathered Michelle Obama then Jill Biden all over their covers, something Brian couldn’t be bothered with mentioning. But she doesn’t give Cue Ball a peep for a while and the black helicopters are engaged.

Now we’re getting “too much” Trump, Brian just can’t get away. This is the stalker’s mentality: “If she didn’t want me to climb the tree and look in her bedroom window, she should close the blinds.”

Unlike Joe Biden, Donald Trump is President all the time. The media covers him because the last guy didn’t do anything publicly worth covering, as his handlers directed him to sign orders and put him to bed while the world was getting done. 

I agree that not everything Donald Trump does needs to be covered, but it’s not his fault as he does not run newsroom editorial meetings. The Brian Stelters of the world choose to cover everything he does like the sky is falling – they’re the Chicken Littles, not Trump – because it rates. 

Brian “can’t escape Trump” because he can’t quit him. The media need Donald Trump much more than Donald Trump needs the media. Without them, he’s still President of the United States. Without him, they’re mentally unstable, unattractive people with outsized egos talking into camera no one is watching the results of.

The media are broken people chasing Donald Trump’s shadow every single day. Without Trump, the media are simply broken people.



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Trump’s Chess Game Is Improving


Does Chucky Schumer really believe that will somehow benefit the U.S.?  Or $7 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica and Uganda?  Uganda enforces the death penalty for gays.

The list goes on and on and on.  I don’t need to bore you with the recitation.  But it is extremely important to understand that $1.5 million promoting DIE in Serbia isn’t about DIE.  It’s about something much more sinister.

President Eisenhower coined the term “military-industrial complex,” referring to a revolving door between the Defense Department and manufacturers of bombs and bullets.  This revolving door saw the DoD ask for munitions and shovel the money to manufacturers, and those manufacturers made handsome profits.  Gratitude for those profits led the war industry to reward its patrons with campaign contributions and other “private” benefits.

World War II filled this feed trough to overflowing.  Of course, after the war, the profits of the defense industry would shrink as the money in the feeder dried up.  Is it any surprise that the Korean War started not long after V.J. Day?  Given this obvious fact, it’s not hard to make a case that the U.S. has been in a nearly constant state of war for a very long time.  And it’s even more obvious why certain political persons (NeverTrumps? RINOs? pro-war lefties?) are so adamant that we need to support the cause du jour with our hard earned wealth.  The war industry in their state would suffer if they didn’t, and they might lose votes.  That may also be why Joe Biden and the Democrats were somewhat “soft” in their opposition to Israel’s war of liberation from Hamas in Gaza.  Their patrons in the war industry would be harmed by full opposition, while paid protests would be enough to establish their Jew-hating bona fides.

through Executive Order 10973, after the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 allowed him to do so.  Notice that key fact.  USAID was optional.  Left-wing apologists that the (also , not identical!) turned it into a congressionally mandated organization.  A text search of both versions of the act revealed a pot full of “Agency for International Development” instances.  And a curious thing failed to show up.  All of those pointed to various funding and management prescriptions for USAID.  Not one of them said, “We establish USAID as an agency of the State Department” or something to that effect.

When the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split in 1980 under President Carter, it was accomplished by the , which , “There is established an executive department to be known as the Department of Education.”  No such language exists anywhere regarding USAID.  Arguing that an act of Congress is required to get rid of it is like saying you can’t pull out that tree you planted without first getting my permission.  The fact that I gave you the fertilizer is irrelevant.  You chose to plant it, and now you want to get rid of it.  It’s in your power, not mine.

DOGE is another case of gaslighting by the left.  Tom Renz (@RenzTom on ) has done yeoman work exposing this scam by the frightened swamp.  It seems that DOGE is not a new government entity at all.  Trump’s executive order masterfully changes the name of the “United States Digital Service” into the “United States DOGE Service.”  It doesn’t even change the letters of the government software development agency created under Obamacare.  It just changes it into something useful.

Of particular importance, because DOGE is inside the government, it doesn’t have to answer questions about how its employees have access to government computers.  President Trump has full authority under Article II, Section 1, Sentence 1, to give access to anyone he wants.  Being inside at the beginning just makes it easier.  But wait!  There’s more!

Trump and Musk had to have carefully planned every step of this.  Recall that Elon dismissed the majority of the workforce for X and still gets everything done.  I’m sure that the whiz kids who are doing the algorithmic audits all over the government had their software all refined by doing the same job at X.  So when it took them hours to expose all the corruption in USAID, that was no surprise.  They had refined their skills, allowing their computers to collate and reorganize the financial records into meaningful results.  And no one’s personal data were revealed...yet.  If money for USAID programs was diverted, the term for that is “misappropriation of funds,” punishable by up to ten years under 18 USC §641.  I’m certain that there will be many songbirds who will prefer supervised freedom to three hots and a cot with monthly visitation.

Finally, federal employee unions are screaming that Trump’s buyout offer is illegal.  The fact that he can eliminate the unions entirely with a stroke of his pen is lost on them.  But the judge issued his temporary injunction under the rule that the plaintiff’s lawyers’ presentations are presumed true at the outset.  But once each case is properly briefed, any honest judge (Will we find one?) will find for Trump.

Let’s go back through the key issues.  First, DOGE is inside the Executive Branch of the government, with full access granted by the president. Unless its employees reveal privileged information, as that IRS employee did with Trump’s tax returns, they aren’t breaking any laws when they do their automated audits.  The screaming about “Who elected Elon?!” goes nowhere.  Who elected the two million or so employees of the federal government?  Are you upset because they aren’t your guys?  Thought so.

Second, because USAID was created by an E.O., it can be uncreated by an E.O.  I know, this one will have a bit longer arguments in front of a judge, but there is no “establishment” language for USAID in any statute that I know of.  Without that, the swamp is just ooze.

Third, we have the issue of standing.  Article III §2 starts with “The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity ...”  The key for those in Rio Linda is the word “Controversies,” which pops up several times a bit later in the same section.  For a legal controversy to exist, at least two parties must have a “cognizable” disagreement.  That other word identifies an argument that the Court has authority to settle.  And this is where the swamp must take the bull squarely by the tail and face the situation (apologies to W.C. Fields).  Trump’s attorneys really did their homework.

None of these “cases” gives any federal employee or Congress any cause to complain.  Congress is boxed out because these are policy decisions by the Executive, and no Congresscritter was harmed in the making of the decision.  No federal employee has a property interest in the existence of his job.  The Civil Service Act provides procedural protections for firing from a job, but if the job no longer exists, the employee is simply out of luck.  Pressing “Delete” on USAID is that sort of situation.  Offering someone a buyout is even harder to challenge.  When you get to decide whether to check or not check the box, there is no case.  You either did or did not.  End of story.

I’m skipping the popcorn on this one, going straight for the cake and ice cream.  Celebrations are in order.



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Trump Is Facing a Familiar Foe Not Even a Month Into His Second Presidency


These rulings are no better than the political opinions on the Washington Post’s editorial page. Simply put, the left doesn’t like that President Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) got the jump on them regarding this mass audit of Washington, so they are trying to stop it. There’s no stopping. Trump should continue because no one has called out any of Joe Biden’s extralegal activities. The man pardoned his entire crime family before he left office, so please spare me any lecture about norms and the rule of law. 

Trump is facing a familiar foe not even a month into his second presidency, and he shouldn’t back away from total war here. There’s no election looming, and he should double down and put the clean-up of DC helmed by DOGE on hyperdrive if this is how the liberal, activist judiciary is going to behave.  

It also rehashes something that should have been settled years ago during the first Trump presidency: curbing the power of district courts. A little court cannot and shouldn’t grind all government in the executive to a halt because it doesn’t like a change in management, which is what this boils down to. We won the 2024 election. It’s time to start acting like it, and I don’t even want to hear the word “appeal.”  

CNN’s Scott Jennings has precisely the right take on this legal circus: little judges shouldn’t dictate and commandeer the actions of the executive branch that are not illegal. Forget it.  

“Screw the courts”—that should be the new motto. 



These little judges made their decision. Let’s see them enforce it. It’s 2025, and I’d like to see a little Jacksonian infusion into this White House on this issue because we know who these forces are and what our enemies plan to do. We know DC has been trying to get Mr. Trump for years.  

Push on, Mr. President. This is why we elected you. 



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Press Release: Scholars Publish Plan to Fix Education Department


National Association of Scholars
February 11, 2025

New York, NY; February 11, 2025—The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has launched a new report, Waste Land—The Education Department’s Profligacy, Mediocrity, and Radicalism. The report details the Department of Education’s (ED) long and controversial history, its weaponization by bureaucrats and policymakers over the years, and its current state of affairs. A key question explored in this report is one asked by many—what does ED actually do? 

“ED has grown like mold on the walls of a flood-ravaged house,” said NAS President Peter W. Wood. “With each new administration, with each new Congress, more and more responsibilities were heaped upon it. As the directives have heaped upon each other, rarely has anyone stopped to sort through the damage and take account of what should remain, what should go, and plan for a much-needed renovation.”

ED has grown exponentially, much to its detriment. From its beginnings under the Carter administration to today’s bloated department, ED has shown it cannot fulfill its primary purpose—disbursing funds to students and local education agencies. The four primary areas of ED responsibility include handling Title I funds for disadvantaged K-12 students, distributing special education funds for mentally and physically disabled students, disbursing Pell Grants to disadvantaged postsecondary students, and granting direct student loans to postsecondary students. 

“This sounds all well and good, but these funds rarely make it to students, states, and postsecondary institutions without steep subtractions. Much of the money disappears into red tape or arrives with socially engineered directives,” said NAS Director of Policy Teresa Manning. “ED has created an ever-growing number of grant programs that divert taxpayer funds to the imposition of progressive political agendas.”

Can ED be reformed? Or must it be abolished? Waste Land proposes reforming ED in the short term, splitting off some functions to other federal agencies, and setting the stage for its eventual abolition.

NAS began its work on this report in Spring 2024 to help the American people fix ED. The report builds on nearly a decade of NAS work on the numerous flaws, defects, and transgressions built into the department. In the past, NAS critiqued the misapplication of Title IX; examined the Department’s advocacy of gender ideology, DEI, Common Core, and racial preferences; and scrutinized student financial aid, accreditation, and foreign influence. In general, ED has been captured by the educational establishment, teachers unions, and special interests on campus, and has been prey to faddish nostrums and an impulse to confuse education with therapy.    

“As we launch this report, the new administration has begun vigorous efforts to overhaul the federal government, including the Education Department,” Wood declared. “NAS is delighted to see the attention the new administration is paying to education. We hope that Waste Land will assist the reformers in what we might call their seek and destroy mission, but in any case their effort to restore sanity to the federal role in education.”

Waste Land reviews hundreds of programs and provides recommendations for each. Many programs ought to be eliminated. Others ought to be merged or migrated to Health and Human Services or other departments better suited to the task. These recommendations can be accomplished by administrative action, or better yet, legislative initiative.

The report also asks, “How do ED’s initiatives affect ordinary schools and the students who attend those schools?” To answer this question, report authors Neetu Arnold, Mason Goad, and Teresa R. Manning visited school districts in urban Philadelphia, suburban Virginia, and rural Ohio. These three case studies found that in each district, ED’s policies make the work of educating harder and force progressive ideology on students and teachers.

“ED is so sprawling and complex that no casual observer—or educational reporter—can tell what it is doing or whether it does its job well,” noted NAS Director of Research David Randall. “Our recommendations aim to simplify its operations so that it can become transparent and accountable to citizens and policymakers.”

Wood concluded, “The Department of Education has been a costly burden on the American people, not merely in its outrageous expense but also in its 45 years of diversion from and destruction of sound educational principles.”

NAS is a network of scholars and citizens united by a commitment to academic freedom, disinterested scholarship, and excellence in American higher education. Membership in NAS is open to all who share a commitment to these broad principles. NAS publishes a journal and has state and regional affiliates. Visit NAS at www.nas.org.

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If you would like more information about this issue, please contact Chance Layton at layton@nas.org.


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Democrats Have Become The ‘No You Can’t’ Party


In the battle between the ‘you can just do things’ and 
the ‘you can’t do thats’ whose side do you want to be on?



Americans rejected Kamala Harris because she reminded them of a condescending administrator who cloaks her incompetence by scolding everyone smarter than her. In response to her crushing defeat, Democrats made that persona their entire personality.

When the Trump administration arrived in Washington with an air of “we can just do things,” the media and other Democrats stepped into the unflattering role of sore losers screeching “you can’t do that.” (Where, oh where, was this principled originalist restraint when the last administration tried to jail a political opponent while propping up a Potemkin president?)

Trump’s approach has conservatives wondering: What were Republicans doing for our entire lives? All these years of talk about bloated government, and this whole time we could just stop sending tens of thousands of dollars to fund transgender comic books in Peru? All those strongly worded statements about men in girls’ locker rooms, and all it took was the guts to say, enough?

Meanwhile, his approach has his perennial critics tripping over themselves to scold and condescend about every victory voters are cheering. How dare you complain about your tax dollars funding condoms for terrorists? The feds weren’t really paying off Politico for its positive coverage, they were just buying an absurd number of five-figure subscriptions. You’re so un-Christian for caring more about the safety of your family than those poor criminals ICE is sending back across the border!

It’s an optical rake the left keeps stepping on. No one thinks “curtailing government’s power and reach” is “the most damaging” thing to ever happen except the bad guys. It has never been clearer how much the people who grease the Washington blob hate Americans.

Take the panic over Elon Musk bringing in a few twenty-something brainiacs to help cut government waste. They are “lacking in government experience,” the media warn. Government experience, after all, is what has made our bloated federal bureaucracy so efficient and productive in serving taxpayers! I bet the customer service reps at the IRS have lots of government experience.

The problem is, government experience has never been responsible for American greatness. We never would have made it to the moon if the space program was run by a Dr. Fauci type. We never would have made it to Berlin with Mark Milley.

As often as not, American greatness has happened in an attempt to prove the “you can’t do thats” wrong. Rebellion is our founding myth, after all! We carved a nation out of a continent because we believed we could and were bold and young and inventive enough to try, not because we trusted the experts.

Chuck Yeager was 24 years old when he broke the sound barrier. He did so with two broken ribs and closed his aircraft’s hatch with a broom handle because his injury wouldn’t let him reach the hatch. It’s a good thing OSHA wasn’t there to tell him that wasn’t safe!

The youngest man who explored the Louisiana Territory in the Corps of Discovery was 17; at 33, William Clark was one of the old men of the group. The Wright brothers were in their 30s when their flyer lifted off at Kill Devil Hills. So save me the hand-wringing if some young men are here to help drain the swamp — the rest of America is happy to see them.

Joe Biden was right about one thing: There is a battle for the soul of America. It’s the caffeinated real estate mogul and his millennial veep versus The Experts who have been running things into the ground and getting pensions for it. It’s the kids with new ideas versus the Chuck Schumer types, who are literally shaking their canes. It’s the people who believe in ordering their loves around their families and communities before the rest of the world, versus the people who care more about starting foreign wars than keeping your streets safe.

The former kind of people built America — the people who were young and reckless enough not to realize they were doing things once deemed impossible. The latter category would have grounded Yeager’s plane for not being up to code and told Lewis and Clark their band of explorers didn’t have enough biracial lesbians in it.

It’s not like statue-toppling, self-flagellating Democrats have made a secret of hating America. But their derision for American history has given way to derision for the American spirit, and it’s playing out with a candor that’s kind of amazing. The party that catapulted Barack Obama on the slogan “Yes We Can” has become the party of “No You Can’t.” They stand athwart history yelling, you’re not authorized to do that without permission!

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5 Reasons Trump’s Second Term Promises To Be More Effective Than His First


There are several noteworthy factors that explain why Trump's second term is outshining the first.



President Donald Trump’s second term is off to a thunderous start. Wasting no time, the president signed a flurry of executive orders on day one, initiating crackdowns on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) and illegal immigration. DOGE, the new agency spearheaded by Elon Musk, got to work immediately as well, cutting $1 billion a day in federal spending, a figure it aims to triple.

The tempo set by this administration has proven shocking. After all, Trump’s first term left much to be desired. However, people shouldn’t be too surprised. There are several noteworthy factors that explain why the second Trump administration is outshining the first.

His Experience

Perhaps the most obvious one is experience. Prior to his inauguration in Jan. 2017, Trump had never held public office. Navigating the byzantine labyrinth that is the federal government is difficult to the uninitiated. And as an outsider — one constantly subjected to phony investigations, leaks, and manufactured media scandals — this proved more arduous than anyone could have predicted. But this time around, Trump undoubtedly has a much better grasp of how things work in D.C., a requirement for doing anything from firing bureaucrats to scoring policy wins.

Better Team

He has a better team as well. As the saying goes, personnel is policy. This was a weak point the first time around. Entering that pit of vipers forced Trump to choose between inexperienced loyalists — of whom there were few — and experienced swamp creatures. Trump initially opted for the latter, as evidenced by Reince Priebus, who in 2012 described Romney’s milquetoast self-deportation comments as “horrific,” becoming his first chief of staff. You can’t beat the political establishment by hiring it.

Four years in the White House and another four in the wilderness gave Trump ample time to assemble a loyal, experienced team. From Kash Patel to Marco Rubio, Trump has surrounded himself with competent figures eager to enact his agenda. While the president should, of course, be ready to fire any who step out of line, Trump 47 appears unlikely to become a revolving door like Trump 45. His 2024 campaign was remarkably stable, featuring the same co-managers from start to finish. Contrast this with 2016, which saw three different campaign managers.

Firing Bureaucrats

However, hiring the right people is only half of the personnel battle. Trump must also implement mass lustration by firing as many federal bureaucrats as possible. During his first term, these regime apparatchiks attempted to thwart Trump’s agenda at every turn. In many cases, unfortunately, they succeeded.

America First Policy Institute published a report that outlined how career federal employees carried out this subterfuge. These bureaucrats would frequently withhold critical information from administration officials; at times misrepresent information, particularly when it came to what could and could not be done; refuse to do policy work for ideological reasons; delay work or intentionally submit unacceptable projects; and, of course, leak sensitive information to the press. So much for a politically neutral civil service.

The federal bureaucracy is clearly an obstacle to the president’s agenda. But Trump has a plan this time around. Already, the administration has fired prosecutors involved in former President Joe Biden’s Jan. 6 witch hunt. It has also fired eight high-level FBI officials and is reportedly considering firing many thousands more. Additionally, Elon Musk has claimed that Trump agreed to “shut down” the U.S. Agency for International Development, which would put 10,000 civil servants out of job. And then we have the 30,000 or so federal employees who accepted Trump’s brilliant buyout offer.

But given that the federal government employs more than 2 million people, much work remains to be done. Thankfully, Trump signed an executive order on day one that not only reinstated his Schedule F executive order from 2020 but also expanded its scope. According to the National Treasury Employee Union, Trump’s executive order would affect far more federal employees than the 100,000 previously anticipated. It turns out he wasn’t kidding about draining the swamp.

No More Lip Service

Dealing with the bureaucracy isn’t the only policy field in which the second Trump term is superior to the first. Across the board — DEI, immigration, trans nonsense, foreign policy, you name it — this administration has proven its commitment to implementing a holistic platform that addresses the existential issues of our time. Long gone are the days of elected Republicans paying mere lip service to conservative ideals. Thanks to Trump, the new GOP knows the score — and it’s playing to win.

Dejected Opposition

Moreover, the opposition Trump faced in his first term has dissipated. The left is tired and dejected. Trump survived everything the establishment threw at him — including an assassination attempt — and went on to win reelection. Facing such an unstoppable adversary is enough to demoralize anyone. Even Van Jones, a sworn far-left partisan, couldn’t help but describe Trump as “phenomenal” and “the most powerful human on earth” in a recent interview. Perhaps for the first time in his life, he’s right.

With that said, Trump will not solve every problem. Even in the best-case scenario, much work will remain to be done. This restoration of social and political order in America could take decades. But after Trump’s second term concludes, we will find ourselves considerably closer to the finish line.



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