Glenn helpfully explains where the wrecking ball comes into the picture.
Trump is following through with unprecedented and swift action to begin his presidency – which has reset the national mood
Soon after November’s election, I suggested that if Donald Trump were smart, he’d come in like a wrecking ball: Move fast, break things and precipitate change across many fronts all at once, subjecting the Democrats, the media and the left (but I repeat myself) to shock and awe.Boy, has he ever done that, unleashing unprecedented change in just his first 100 hours.
He banned DEI throughout the federal government, closed the borders to illegal immigrants (according to Customs and Border Protection, illegal crossings dropped 97% by Trump’s second day in office), halted government censorship efforts, refocused the Defense Department from social issues to warfighting, and started a massive cleanup at the corrupt Department of Justice.
Follows, a most edifying litany of Trump moves, directives, and initiatives, culminating with:
A week or two ago, all these things seemed too hard to accomplish.
Now they’re simply being done.
Oh, there’s resistance: The Air Force announced that as part of Trump’s DEI ban it would stop teaching cadets about the Tuskeegee Airmen scandal, an act of obvious bad faith designed to grab headlines.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who knows whereof he speaks, rightly called this “political theatrics” and “passive-aggressive performative nonsense . . . It’s all an act.”
It is an act, and the actors should be sacked.
Indeed they should, in fact, MUST—every man Jack of them, lest this nascent movement in all the right directions be kilt a-borning.
But that they’re trying this sort of idiocy is proof that they’re flailing and desperate. Trump has the momentum.
One reason for this, of course, is that things like the DEI ban and immigration enforcement are wildly popular.
The American public has never supported affirmative action or open borders.
Those are policy preferences of the elites, who bullied opponents by calling them racist.
That doesn’t work anymore.
Nor should it. May it ever be thus.