Hanlon's Razor is a principle that says that one should never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity, and perhaps the principle applies in the current attempts by Democrats to stifle the Trump administration's efforts to remove waste and fraud from our federal bureaucracy and to gain control of our immigration process.
Maybe, but I have doubts. The attempts to stop Trump seem too desperate and involve too many people. Few of them are stupid but a sufficient number can be malicious.
It's hard to see what anodyne motives could be animating those who are seeking out compliant judges to file Temporary Restraining Orders against DOGE, which is engaged in doing what politicians have always promised to do but never did - eliminate the waste of taxpayer dollars by the federal bureaucracy. What non-malicious motives can the left possibly have for opposing this? Yet they are.
DOGE recently discovered that there are 20 million Social Security recipients listed in the Social Security database whose ages range from 100 to 350 years old. They uncovered billions of dollars of waste and abuse at USAID, and found that approximately $4.7 trillion (!) was disbursed by the Treasury Department with no indication of how the money was spent. Elon Musk's minions have uncovered billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse in other agencies as well.
At the same time, ICE is trying to track down and arrest violent felons who came into the country illegally and remove them from our communities. Democratic mayors and governors are doing all they can, however, to impede ICE's efforts. How can these politicians and judges justify deliberately shielding murderers and rapists who don't belong here in the first place? Yet they are.
No non-malicious motives suggest themselves for all of this malfeasance, but malevolent ones do. The left for several generations has been conducting what the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci called the long march through the institutions, a strategy for bringing about the collapse of capitalist societies by infiltrating their institutions - family, government, education, church, entertainment, law, etc. - with enough committed ideologues who will, like termites, undermine the economic and social health of the society until it collapses from its own rot.
Frankly, I'm reluctant to attribute malice to the left's resistance to leaning out our federal bureaucracy and removing vicious illegal aliens from our communities, but if that's not what's behind their opposition, if the left has not undertaken an all-out effort to bring about the ultimate collapse of our socio-economic structure, it surely wouldn't look much different than what we're seeing if indeed they had.
The left considers progress toward the "revolution" to be a kind of ratchet. It can go forward, it can be paused for a time, but it can never go back. It has managed since WWII to squander so much of our wealth, to foment so much social unrest, to all but destroy the family, weaken the glue of religion, distort our history, and bring us closer to national ruin, that they could see success looming on the near horizon. Now Trump and Musk are threatening to undo all that it took decades or more for them to accomplish and they're livid and desperate.
For the first time the ratchet isn't just being paused, it's being reversed, and Democrats are stunned. Trump's not only frustrating their aspirations for revolution but also lifting the rock and exposing what has been going on in our government bureaucracy since at least the Obama administration and doubtless long before that.
The left likes to recite the slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness," but the last thing they want, apparently, is an administration that actually shines a light on what they've been up to.
