Democrats Have Trump Fever, and There Is No Cure
Kurt Schlichter
Think of the Trump administration as a virulent but benevolent virus that has infected the monstrous, bloated, Vindmanesque blob that is the United States government. The beauty of it is that Trump, predominantly through DOGE but also through his other appointees and staffers, is using the state against itself much like a virus does. A virus will find a vulnerable cell, inject itself into it, and use the machinery of the cell to replicate itself. It turns the host cell against the organism. And that’s what Trump is doing as he infects and, hopefully, kills the hateful administrative state.
A pathogen infects the organism, and the organism tries to fight off the infection. That is like what’s happening here, except the main symptom of Trump fever is awesomeness. An organism typically has an immune system that identifies infectious agents and mutated cells and then attempts to destroy them. The problem for the Democrats is that they no longer control the federal immune system. Trump does. He owns the executive branch. Moreover, the Republicans own the legislative and judicial branches, too – or at least pretty much control the court where the judicial buck stops. We’re seeing some of the immune system response there as lower court district judges try to enjoin the executive from executing. The rulings of the liberal judges are all legal nonsense, but that’s par for the course. The executive has a right to do executive things, and administering programs is a quintessential executive function. These lower courts will slow down the process, but that’s been factored into the campaign plan. We expected it, and it won’t last long. For every major impediment at the district court level, you’ll have an appeal to the circuit, and eventually, big ones will get to the Supreme Court, which is going to toss out most of the challenges not simply because six judges are nominally conservative but because the legal theories are such garbage.
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