Something Big Is Going On - The Success Of President Trump’s Nominees Should Be Understood As The Establishment’s Reluctant Acknowledgment That The Entire Federal Government Is Skating On Thin Ice
The Senate’s confirmation hearings for President Trump’s political appointees have been gladiatorial spectacles. Tulsi Gabbard; Kash Patel; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. followed Pete Hegseth’s example in demonstrating fierce determination and an unwillingness to have their honor questioned by dishonorable Democrats.
Gabbard told the Intelligence Committee that the Russia collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and her own experiences as a Biden regime surveillance target proved that the CIA and its sister agencies had become politicized weapons endangering the Republic. Kennedy admonished Senator Bernie Sanders for being a bought-and-paid-for stooge of the pharmaceutical industry. When Senator Adam Schiff (who should be a defendant, not a lawmaker) accused Patel of betraying law enforcement officers, the next director of the FBI stared back intently and reminded inveterate liar Schiff that those who police our streets know who has their backs.
These types of hearings have gotten increasingly combative over the last thirty years, but this aggressive jousting between nominees and lawmakers is something new. What we’re watching is not just rhetorical gamesmanship or made-for-TV fireworks meant to capture distracted Americans’ attention. Like their boss in the White House — whose mug shot from the Fulton County Jailhouse in Atlanta, Georgia, two years ago only added to Trump’s legend as an everyman hero — these nominees have approached their confirmation hearings with a stoic seriousness befitting an administration whose every move conveys a simple message: “There’s a new sheriff in town.” When Patel gave Schiff the “evil eye” and calmly asserted that his friends in blue had his six, I thought the corrupt California senator wet his pants.
Will the nominees be confirmed? If the proceedings were done entirely in secret, they would not. As more Americans have steadily realized, the U.S. Senate is not divided between Republicans and Democrats. Almost all senators are stalwart members of the same Uniparty. The Senate is a privileged chamber of egomaniacal “nobles” who work for the Intelligence Community, protect the permanent bureaucracy, and remain loyal only to their Establishment Club. Most Senate “Republicans” oppose Trump and his nominees.
President Trump has given a voice to a long-ignored, fed-up, and growing share of the American electorate, and the political “elites” who have occupied D.C. for far too many decades will never forgive him.
The lies and corruption emanating from Washington have driven our country to its breaking point, and a plurality (if not an outright majority) of Americans are on the cusp of tossing the failing federal government into the dustbin of history and returning to the Constitution’s blueprint for building a functioning Republic from the ground up.
Obviously, if we were to return to the U.S. Constitution as our guide in a kind of American “mulligan,” we would not repeat our mistakes by turning a blind eye to the construction of an all-powerful and unaccountable Intelligence Branch, the empowerment of a vast and unelected bureaucratic blob, or the underhanded transformation of our system into a money spigot for multinational corporations and central banks.
If Americans one day choose fidelity to the Constitution over the monstrosity that is the federal government, they will do everything they can to make sure that limitations upon the government’s powers are actually enforced this time around. A chain will be wrapped tightly around Leviathan’s neck, and the American people will stand forcefully upon its back. As we approach America’s sestercentennial, we have relearned a lesson our Founders tried desperately to teach us: unchecked government never stops growing and never yields to the people any control.
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