The Breeze and the Hurricane

In a fine piece at PJ Media titled Who Caused the Cultural Revolution? Victor Davis Hanson argues that the culprits behind the massive layoffs of government workers are not really the Trump administration or Elon Musk but rather the activists who burrowed their way into almost every government department and commenced a regime of fraud and waste of the taxpayer's dollars that went on for years.

Almost every politician who's been elected to office has promised to eliminate the "fat" in government, but no one has ever actually done it. Not even Ronald Reagan was able to do much about the bloat in government that he complained about.

Now, the first serious effort to introduce accountability and efficiency into government is being undertaken and those who have benefited from feeding at the public trough are doing everything they can to stop it. Undoing the damage that has been done to our country will not be easy or painless, but thankfully it's being done.

Anyway, in the conclusion to his article Hanson also notes a few interesting examples of the stark difference between the current administration and its predecessor that should receive more publicity than they have. Hanson points out that:

• No FBI SWAT teams are now raiding the homes of ex-presidents.
• No one is trying to take a presidential rival off state ballots.
• No one is coordinating local, state, and federal prosecutors to indict, harass, and bankrupt an ex-president.
• And no president -- his dementia sheathed by political insiders and a toadish media -- is working three days a week, avoiding press conferences, or stonewalling reporters' questions.

Of course, it's still early and things could change, but so far the difference between the Biden administration's approach to governance and that of Mr. Trump is like the difference between a breeze and a hurricane.

Moreover, the Trump administration gives one hope that it'll be far more forthcoming with the American people than was the Biden White House. Perhaps we'll learn the details behind the attempted assassinations of candidate Trump, the source of the cocaine that was left in the White House, the names of those implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, the role of the FBI in the J6 riots, how the plot to have Trump impeached in 2017 was hatched, and much else.

The American people have the right to know how their tax dollars are spent and who or what is behind many of the mysterious events of the past few years. After all, as we're frequently reminded by folks in the media, "Democracy dies in darkness."