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How Trump caught big-government fans in their own trap
NY Post ^ | 28. Mar 2025 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 03/28/2025 10:20:51 AM PDT by Rummyfan

President Donald Trump is using every tool he has to challenge woke practices in America — and he has a lot of them.

Notably, none of the mechanisms that the president is using were put in place by conservatives for leverage against progressive institutions.

No, Trump is simply availing himself of the vast federal apparatus created by liberals on the assumption that an ever-more powerful and extensive federal government was synonymous with righteousness.

Now that someone is in charge who doesn’t agree with them and who is willing to use all the influence that the progressive state affords him, they are vulnerable to the centralized power that they’ve eagerly built up over decades.

Expanding the federal government has been a progressive priority since the time of Woodrow Wilson, and now its tentacles — via federal funding and a skein of rules — reach into practically every corner of American life.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; fakenews; murdochpost; newyork; newyorkpost; richlowry; tds; trump

1 posted on 03/28/2025 10:20:51 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
And nearly everything he does — nearly every “presidential power” a president can exercise — is actually power that Congress has delegated to the president.
2 posted on 03/28/2025 10:22:36 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

Not according to the district judges.


3 posted on 03/28/2025 10:25:36 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: Rummyfan

I voted for this. I fully support tipping over the apple cart and restacking the fruit, rottens discarded.


4 posted on 03/28/2025 10:28:57 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you disarmed because they intend on doing things you would shoot them for.)
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To: Rummyfan

Why do you suppose liberals didn’t think a conservative president wouldn’t use the power of the federal government against them?

Here is my theory: Because they know they are evil and know conservatives play by the rules, and are wussies.


5 posted on 03/28/2025 10:30:41 AM PDT by Salvavida (NS)
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To: Salvavida

they were counting on the 4th branch the bureaucratic state

to stymie him

the bureaucratic state that Trump is dismantling


6 posted on 03/28/2025 10:47:27 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: paulcissa

Great analogy but so many youngsters have no idea what an apple cart is.


7 posted on 03/28/2025 11:02:06 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Rummyfan
"Expanding the federal government has been a progressive priority since the time of Woodrow Wilson"

So close. Woodrow Wilson was not America's first Progressive President. He was arguably its third. Taft being its second.(Until Taft came to reason half-way in)

Expanding the federal government has been a progressive priority since the time of Theodore Roosevelt. The American Progressive era is 1900-1920, specifically because of mr big time hot shot Bull Moose.

Anyways, we need to be very careful about this. Any time a conservative has elected office (as opposed to some weak spineless Bush RINO) the goal should always be to reduce the size of the Federal Government.

Yes, Trump does have all of these levers because progressives put them there but at the end of the day every one of those levers is EVIL and must be dismantled.

8 posted on 03/28/2025 11:05:38 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

RINOs are not “weak and spineless”; they are left-wing ideologues just as much as Democrats are.


9 posted on 03/28/2025 11:11:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Rummyfan

I love it.

Using the left’s own tactics against them and watching the meltdown when it happens to THEM.


10 posted on 03/28/2025 11:20:50 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Rummyfan

The boot of the state should now be stomping on democRAT faces forever. It should be a law.


11 posted on 03/28/2025 11:23:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Rummyfan

Federal government has been a progressive priority since the time of Woodrow Wilson.

On target more like communists than progressives.
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12 posted on 03/28/2025 11:36:51 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber

“The boot of the state should now be stomping on democRAT faces forever. It should be a law.”

And we still live in a digital surveillance state.


13 posted on 03/28/2025 1:28:51 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: ProgressingAmerica
at the end of the day every one of those levers is EVIL and must be dismantled.
Guess who will dismantle them when they get a chance?

Until then, they can pound sand.

14 posted on 03/28/2025 2:26:31 PM PDT by lewislynn
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To: Rummyfan

President Trump, you are the Man! Kudos to you.


15 posted on 03/28/2025 4:46:56 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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To: dljordan
And we still live in a digital surveillance state.

 Ecclesiastes 10:20 niv

Do not revile the king even in your thoughts,
or curse the rich in your bedroom,
because a bird in the sky may carry your words,
and a bird on the wing may report what you say.

16 posted on 03/28/2025 6:32:20 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Technically, it was actually happening since under Thomas Jefferson if Liberty the God that Failed is to be believed.


17 posted on 04/15/2025 4:42:53 AM PDT by otness_e
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To: otness_e

If you have to resort to a technicality then you are only fabricating your own facts.


18 posted on 04/15/2025 6:09:57 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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