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Posted on 05/15/2025 5:55:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Trump's first 100 days mark a chaotic counterrevolution, tackling crises long ignored—and infuriating the very forces that allowed them to fester.
Pundits are confused about what to make of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.
Supporters talk of “flooding the zone,” believing Trump is making so many changes so quickly that his opposition is reduced to deer-in-the-headlights infancy.
They must be right when the nation suffers daily Democratic pottymouth videos, vandalism of Teslas, infantile meltdowns at congressional witnesses, rioting against federal agents to protect illegal alien felons, protesting on behalf of women beaters, M-13 gangbangers, human traffickers, and assaulters, and visa-holding violent students praising Hamas terrorists.
In contrast, opponents either claim that Trump’s first three months are either directionless chaos or a Hitlerian nightmare or both.
But what is really happening?
One, Trump is finally addressing the problems that proverbially “cannot go on forever, and so they won’t go on.”
When, if ever, would the left have closed the southern border? After 10, 30, 50 million illegal aliens?
How many more criminal illegal entrants was the Biden administration willing to allow into American neighborhoods—500,000? 1 million? 3 million?
How long was the world simply going to ignore the human destruction on the doorstep of Europe?
Would Biden or Harris have sought a ceasefire? Or would it have taken another 1.5, 3, or even 5 million more dead, wounded, and missing Ukrainians and Russians?
Nor did past administrations ever seek a solution to the massive national debt, much less the uncontrollable budget and trade deficits.
All prior presidents passed the day of judgment on to some vague future presidency, assured that their money printing would at least not blow up on their watch.
All moaned that China was piling up huge trade surpluses
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VDH ping
Rhyming with the latest Rasmussen poll indicating that for the first time in 20 years more Americans say we are on the right rack than those who feel we are on the wrong track.
His answer is a messy, knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution to reboot the country back to the middle where it once was and where the Founders believed it should remain.
That statement reminds me of how Rush described Trump's first term and the way the left hyperventilated over Trump. Did anyone expect someone to be able to gentlemanly dismantle the swamp without a big fight? Trump is what fixing things looks like.
You mean Deep State, Professor...?
Just say Deep State.
From 1963, on some ancient history...
I think we ALREADY have 40 million illegals in the country, and we just can't afford to take care of them all.
Democrats want them because they know they can get them on the voter rolls where they will usually vote for the "I'll give you something for nothing" candidates.
Recently a bill that said you have to be a citizen in order to vote failed in the Senate. Not a single Democrat voted for it.
BTTT
Hence the "liberal" blowback. "Liberals" are the revolutionaries of the 70s. They've infested the major cultural, government, and academic institutions - Gramsci's cultural marxism put into practice.
They'll not tolerate a counter-revolution.
From the above...
In a letter of July 1, 1764, the Baron de Grimm, the French philosopher, wrote: ‘We are obsessed by the idea of regulation, and our Masters of Requests refuse to understand that there is an infinity of things in a great state with which a government should not concern itself. The late M. de Gournay1 … sometimes used to say: “We have an illness in France which bids fair to play havoc with us; this illness is called bureaumania”...
Our Founding Fathers were students of history. We need to be, too.
VDH is a scholar. He doesn’t deal in vague terms like you and I. His description here leaves no doubt as to what he’s talking about. Why insist he use the term deep state? That allows the uninformed to dismiss what he’s saying as right wing conspiracy bs if they are so inclined.
You have the right to speak
So does VDH. He said it his way, which he did.
“permanent bureaucracies” seems self explanatory
“Permanent bureaucracies” conveys a sense of harmlessness and glacial stupidity.
Deep State conveys a sense of something evil, persistant, and hard to eradicate.
I prefer not to sugarcoat Deep State.
We should call it what it is: Deep State.
The net result is clear: almost everything the vast majority of Americans and their elected representatives did not want—far-left higher education, a Pravda media, biological men destroying women’s sports, an open border, 30 million illegal aliens, massive debt, a weaponized legal system, and a politicized Pentagon—became the new culture of America.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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IF Stephen Miller really wants to flood the zone, call for a snap Constitutional Convention.
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