The Second Coming of Trump has arrived with full force and never a dull moment is the word. Jewish supremacy has re-opened the floodgates of Hell massacring Palestinians and pushing for war with Teheran; the triumphant U.S. president has finally expressed some empathy - for Elon Musk! - ("He's being treated unfairly"); and rising waves of popular revulsion at the billionaire duo's contempt for everybody and everything that doesn't directly enrich them have seized the moment and surged into the political foreground.
Meanwhile, DOGE's "efficiency experts" are using nutcase Javier Milei's "chainsaw for bureaucracy" to remove the fraud, waste, and abuse from the federal budget - like pediatric cancer research, aviation safety, and medical care for Veterans - all three perverse funding priorities posing obvious obstacles to "Making America Great Again."
Sadly for Trump, his hoped-for record breaking mass deportations have fallen woefully short, not even equaling Joe Biden's pace, a shameful outcome for MAGA given the president's campaign promises, or at least it would be if he were capable of feeling shame. Unwilling or unable to spend the money required for the mass round-ups he promised, Trump has taken to grabbing the low-hanging fruit - unwary legal immigrants passing through airports - including in one case a woman married to a U.S. citizen who once overstayed a legal visa because flights were canceled and the border shut down due to Covid, making it impossible for her to leave on time. Fortunately, this glaring national security threat has been seized and dispatched to immigration jail, an immense relief to dictatorship-loving Americans everywhere.
Speaking of national security threats, legal immigrant Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian raised in a refugee camp in Syria, has been smeared as a terrorist and thrown into jail for condemning wholesale U.S.-Israeli extermination in Gaza, the culmination of "never again" pontificating about the Holocaust and its attendant kosher killing campaigns.
Nevertheless, we have every right to be indignant about Khalil: the bloody nerve of people driven off their land and tortured and murdered for nearly a century raising a voice against the perpetrators! Have they no shame?
There is no relief coming for any of this from the collaborationist Democratic Party, which has spent years claiming that government can't be used to deliver universal health care or a federal jobs guarantee, and certainly not to negotiate our differences with those who object to having their leaders assassinated and their governments overthrown by Washington, standard methods for dealing with popular movements that take majority rule too literally. Democracy does not mean majority rule; it means minority rule with popular ratification, hence the Trump "mandate" to attack and destroy the interests of the majority.*
Democratic Party leaders' denial of any constructive role for government in meeting the needs of the majority has left them with nothing to say to the DOGE brigade's meat-axing of government on the grounds that it's all useless bureaucracy. If everything legitimate (apart from the Pentagon) is delivered by the glorious "free market" why shouldn't we gut government programs?
Interestingly, though the Trump administration is in firm control of all three branches of government, it has chosen not to advance its agenda through the at least formally democratic institutions it controls, but rather, by extra-constitutional gambits like DOGE, which is accountable only to Trump, if even him.
There couldn't be clearer evidence that the MAGA masterminds do not trust the people they say have given them a mandate to construct a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires. With Tesla dealerships being torched and Luigi Mangione raised to the status of a folk hero, there is little chance their agenda could be passed in open Congressional session.
Their distrust of the people is very well deserved. Stay tuned.
*Trump got 49.8% of the vote in an election with 63% turnout, so his "mandate" consists of slightly more than 31% support of the full electorate. In other words, it's fantasy.
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