February 11, 2025
Confessions of Schadenfreude
By Rob Jenkins
It’s difficult to catalog the range of visceral emotions I feel as I watch President Trump, Elon Musk, and his team of whiz kids at DOGE dismantle the Deep State, piece by piece. Anger. Joy. Disgust. Grim satisfaction. Schadenfreude.
We’ve known for years that our federal government has been robbing us blind. We’ve felt it in our bones but been unable to prove it, while those who gorge themselves at the public trough — politicians, contractors, media figures, lobbyists, lawyers, NGO execs — become rich beyond most of our wildest dreams. To see all that graft and corruption finally dragged into the light of day, with receipts, is almost more than I can process.
As I write, when I find it hard to express my thoughts, I often turn to narrative. So let me start with a little story, a true story, one I’ve thought of many times in the past two weeks.
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