Donald Trump is striking at the heart of the left’s mythology. No wonder leftists are panicking.
One of the reasons why Democrats are reacting with such fury to Trump’s efforts to end wasteful government spending is because this has simply never happened before. Republicans and even some Democrats — remember Bill Clinton proclaiming that “The era of big government is over” — have railed against the out-of-control growth of the federal government, but even the strictest fiscal conservatives only managed to slow down that growth, not reverse it.
And even worse for leftists, in reducing the size of government, Trump is directly challenging the left’s core dogma that government can and should fix all the problems of human beings. This idea dates back to the Great Depression, when the Democrats first formed the coalition that made them the majority party for decades. The disparate groups that originally made up that coalition, including ethnic minorities in the North and segregationists who largely despised those minorities in the South, were held together by a shared assumption that whatever was wrong, government could solve it.
This was and is the fundamental myth of the American left. Born in the Great Depression that began in Oct. 1929, this myth claims that Herbert Hoover, the Republican who was president when the Depression hit, did nothing, leaving the American people in misery rather than expand the size of the government and tackle the problem head-on. After the electorate decisively rejected Hoover in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt saved the nation, creating a dizzying array of federal programs that pulled the American people back from the abyss.
And so, you see, in our complex and multifaceted society, we need big government. That’s why Trump and Elon Musk are so irresponsible, you see, to take the pruning shears to government spending. Nancy Pelosi even recently claimed that Trump was suffering from a “lack of sophistication in terms of intelligence” that prevented him from seeing the damage that his efforts to control government waste was causing. […]
— Read More: pjmedia.com
Don’t just survive — THRIVE! Prepper All-Naturals has freeze-dried steaks for long-term storage. Don’t wait for food shortages to get worse. Stock up today. Use promo code “jdr” at checkout for 35% off!
