In the midst of Donald Trump’s traditional success, permanent Washington’s frenzy is reaching new heights regularly.
” Federal officials fight with fight-or-flight reaction to Trump vote”, reads one title. Justice Department officers are “terrified”, according to another, fearing they may be sidelined, fired, or unable to “resist” as they did during the president’s first name. Pentagon officials are reportedly preparing their response to requests to “deploy active-duty forces internally and flames large swaths of]purportedly ] unbiased staffers”, another release reveals.
The national freakout has just grown even more so as a result of some of Trump’s less regular nominations, who hold opinions that are abominable in the institutions they are poised to lead and threaten to significantly alter them.
One had wrongly interpret related reports from program mouthpieces as being the result of a Trump-deranged’s temper tantrum over a missing election, given how unfunny they may appear on their faces. Instead, the arrogance of appointed and unaccountable bureaucrats is what these reports all show. They explain perhaps the bloodiest political conflict in Trump’s campaign to retake control of our nation. There will need to be numerous strong-willed causes defeated. The administrative condition, which is unquestionably unlawful and has combined the authority of the legislative and judicial branches, is the first and foremost one of them, defining tyranny there.
The operational state’s stupidity is that they think they are better than We the People, and that they must use all means to replace our policies with ours. Who we voted for then does n’t really matter because even when we give our elected representatives a mandate, the policy predilections of the “executive” agencies in-name-only must prevail.
This is both the dangerous status quo that has persisted for too much and exploded into common consciousness during the first Trump administration and the real threat to democracy.
The second Trump presidency was elected as the cure — to make dramatic, not progressive, changes in staff and plan, and make the people royal again. Our ruling government’s concern that Americans had self-govern rather than be content explains why the leader faced impeachments, indictments, and assassination attempt, among other problems.
Deep State Howls the loudest
The Department of Justice ( DOJ) led the lawfare inquisition against Trump and those in his orbit, Jan. 6 protest, pro-lifers, practicing Catholic, and engaged families. Essentially, protest has been criminalized. The demise of the rule of law and justice in this region comes from a Court that is overly politicized and equipped.
The Department of Defense’s democratization at its highest rates is extremely disturbing. It would be bad enough if, as Trump’s candidate for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has lamented, lowered health requirements and an emphasis on wokeness and “diversity, capital, and addition” eroded the fatality of our fighting causes. However, as recent reports suggest, the chain of command collapse poses a serious threat to our security as well. Our adversaries are invited to put us to the test.
Under the new administration, the Pentagon’s plans to thwart the Trump administration follow the Pentagon’s letter outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who stated that the U.S. military is prepared to “obey all lawful orders from its civilian chain of command.” The military would disobey orders, according to the insinuation, rather than simply granting them. Resistance forces have been telegraphing these efforts for months, complete with “tabletop exercises” simulating a Trump-the-generals standoff, which according to journalist Lee Smith posits as a sinister plot to divide the military.
This from a defense establishment whose former senior officials have allegedly attacked Trump as fascists and who allegedly conspired with the former speaker to stop him from using nuclear weapons, as well as a defense establishment that played” shell games” to keep troops in Syria against Trump’s orders. These former senior officials are arguably in violation of their codes of conduct, if not certainly in violation of the public trust.
Past Subversion of President’s Policies
Resistance efforts, of course, will likely go far beyond these organizations, and they will, as a former Trump administration official recently pointed out, be no less harmful to our republic.
As James Sherk, a former top civil service reform advisor to President Trump on the White House Domestic Policy Council, has detailed, during Trump’s first term, bureaucrats across a raft of agencies commonly subverted the president’s policies through “withholding information, refusing to implement policies, intentionally delaying or slow-walking priorities, deliberately underperforming, leaking to Congress and the media, and outright insubordination”.
This is why Trump and his transition team have placed a premium on loyalty among Trump’s successors as the most important criteria for those serving in his second administration. The media portrays loyal employees as toadies who will rubberstamp unlawful behavior in terms of bad faith.
As with his initial slate of appointments this term, the president has historically encouraged his staff to debate them and weigh all viewpoints before making final decisions, allowing for the president to surround himself with people who have a wide range of views. And let’s not forget that the Obama-Biden and Biden-Harris administrations actually carried out the authoritarian and unlawful deeds that the regime media dishonestly claims Trump will engage in during his second term.
Loyalty refers to a steadfast commitment to assisting the president in carrying out the mandate for which we voted despite fervent opposition. This should be the absolute minimum of what a person should be doing. Every administration has expectations for its staff members. That entails presidential personnel using all of their abilities, offering the best advice, and taking shots as quickly as they can to craft and implement policy as effectively and effectively as possible.
The media is implicitly implying that they want Trump to employ dishonest appointees who will sabotage, subvert, and stymie the duly elected president in order to stop the American people from obtaining the policies we voted for by using that phrase pejoratively.
The fear, in truth, is that if Americans get what we want, the ruling class will lose its power, prerogatives, and privileges.
Every day, the incoming Trump administration will face resistance from uniparty congressmen, establishment judges, blue states, corporate media, popular cultural institutions, and beyond. However, the administrative state of Leviathan will always be at odds with it.
The task for the Trump administration then will be to execute its agenda not only while the resistance challenges it in a thousand-front war, but with limited appointees, political capital, and time.
The first step in overcoming the difficulties at hand is hiring cabinet and sub-cabinet officials who create teams that are firmly aligned with the president’s mission, made up of those who are smart, tough, and will zealously work to fulfill the president’s mission by prioritizing crucial policy reforms, anticipating the ways in which they may be circumvented, and using every tool at their disposal to execute accordingly.
Trump’s campaign also demonstrated how effective the bully pulpit is in reaching out to the American people, overthrowing all the propaganda-henchmen. The president’s choice for vice president and cabinet has led the way for the administration to make the most of their charismatic and compelling speakers, suggesting that they could use these skills to their full political advantage. It would be wise to do so.
These efforts may have a bearing on our republic’s future.
Ben Weingarten is editor at large for RealClearInvestigations. He is a senior contributor to The Federalist, columnist at Newsweek, and a contributor to the New York Post and Epoch Times, among other publications. Subscribe to his newsletter at weingarten. substack .com, and follow him on Twitter: @bhweingarten.
