The President's Trap

 

It seems apparent that there’s something about the current process with DOGE and the draining of the swamp that is the Deep State that makes you think that President Trump has set up a perfect trap for the Left based on their authoritarian tendencies. You only need to look at the evidence to see that he’s set it up so they entrapped themselves. It's even more hilarious that they can’t do anything about it.

Start with the fact that people with projective tendencies always assume others have the same mindset. In this case, it was Candidate Trump talking about retribution and the Left merely thought it was what they were projecting - namely going after them, when in reality he’s going after their raison d'être for living - forcibly taking taxpayer dollars and transforming society into their ideal of a communist ‘Utopia.’

They were wrong, as usual. And now they’re paying the price.

Because when you get right down to it, this highlights the fundamental differences between the authoritarian Left and the pro-freedom Right. We see government as a necessary evil, akin to fire in that it’s only useful when it’s limited and under control. Well aware that as governmental power and control expand, fundamental freedoms shrink. This is why you keep government as small, localized, and limited as possible. Because as it grows bigger and bigger, with far too many moving parts, it becomes very difficult to figure out what is going on at any given time.

Contrast the viewpoint of limited government conserving individual liberty with the leftist viewpoint. For the far Left, the government is their magic solution to every problem known to mankind - as long as they can extract or print enough money to force their solution on everyone.

The Left sees government as a way to transform society into a collectivist ‘Utopia,’ expanding governmental reach into every possible aspect of life. Somehow, they think that unlimited government is the key to remaking society into their vision of perfection.

So, when candidate Trump talked about retribution, his plan was the dismantling of the governmental leviathan, aiming directly at where the Left lives. Contrasting with their worldview in which they live to buy votes and try to transform society with taxpayer dollars. They thought he was going to come after them, and they were correct. But he’s going after their fundamental way of thinking that will shrink the budget and be wildly popular with the people.

They’ve spent years taking our hard-earned dollars - that they think they’re entitled to take - and doling them out to their pet projects and their own pockets. President Trump is going after this process directly, hitting them where they live.

Trump set them up to be on the losing side of the argument. He chose an agency that hardly anyone had heard of before, that from all outward appearances is a massive money laundering scheme for the far Left, and forced them into the untenable position of defending wasteful government spending. It was more than hilarious to see them try to defend the indefensible. Even worse for them is the fact that they had no other choice in the matter - they had to defend the funder of their pet under-the-table projects, even though it would take away their thunder for future fights. They were obligated to defend USAID, placing them in the position of defending indefensible allocations across the globe.

These days the far Left has become the Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner. They keep on trying to come up with grandiose schemes to trap President Trump, but all they are doing is setting themselves up for further defeats.

This was a twofold victory for common sense, in a way that was ‘dinner and a show’ - the taxpayers saved some of their hard-earned dollars, while it diminished the Un-Democratic party even more. And it was glorious.

by D. Parker at americanthinker.com on February 12, 2025