The ‘hurly burly’ blowing in with this iteration of Trump is just part of his travel plans.
Hoovering through ‘fog and filthy’ air is his political habitat.
Remember his initial entrance …on the broom of the Obama Kenyan birth certificate?
It’s this combination of social defects that caught the attention of ultra right wing players, Americans BLANK Prosperity, with tentacles in every thing- from Supreme Court Justices to Right Wing media.
His loose integrity and passion for dishonesty made him their mascot, especially when they saw the crowds he attracted to his assemblies for race baiting and gender bashing festivals, that he calls rallies… organized strictly on platforms to isolate and denigrate in the name of making America great …again.
And it’s this demographic – White Christian Nationalists, Neo Nazis, Evangelicals with its add- ons of Hispanics and even Blacks- really any group that can append ‘for Trump’ – that has snatched the interest of his background sponsors who see a body politic in the numbers.
The millions who assemble for the sole purpose of bashing, stigmatizing and de- prioritizing, are now emboldened by the mainstreaming of intimidation, threats of bodily harm, death and destruction, not emphatically denounced by Trump; but massaged into normalcy by incorporation into his political discourse as some variation of First Amendment Rights.
And this is the vehicle which drove DOGE in on January 20th 2025, in the name of Government Efficiency aka Institutional Upheaval.
To address the Musk/Trump slash and burn of the Federal Government, we must briefly contemplate the Privacy Act Laws that exist at Federal and thus State levels, established as law of the land in 1974 and so adopted throughout the nation by State establishment.
Its core principles are: Individuals have the right to control their personal data; government agencies are limited in how they can disclose that data; and strict accountability measures are in place for those who manage it.
No wonder Right Wing entities are tying current Republican disregard for Constitution and Law, and its crusade to cut waste, to a similar Conservative Senator Cockrell from way back in the 1800’s which was definitely its orderly predecessor.
Emphasizing the dissimilarities should now be our collective duty, committed obligation, to retain life as we know it.
By comparison to the Musk rampage, the Cockrell effort had Congressional approval and strict parameters for operation. Actions taken against any department were authorized and signed by President and Vice President…per the laws back then.
It was a painstaking exercise, given the century and the lack of swifter administrative tools, but the effort was demonstrably diligent and dedicated comparably…and for the greater good of country.
And this brings us back to States’ Rights under a constituted Federal Rights country, that has legal procedures for the establishment of Agencies and Personnel duties in our democratically run Federal Republic.
That States have independently filed to block the Musk/Trump invasion into our private details is the slippage correction of the metaphorical fault lines caused by political earthquakes of this 47th, supposed, Administration.
That Judges have actually blocked their access to our data is testament that our Constitution works for the good of every organization/citizen acting in good faith.
Whereas the Right wing Financiers of the Trump ‘Hurly Burly’ are hoping that the slash and burn was a paralyzing element of surprise, its distraction and disruption are proving to have short shelf life; even with the alleged genius of his co-pilot, Musk.
Inciting vague anxieties, ‘moving fast and breaking things’, hold attention as long as snippy sound bites do – even if Musk brandishes a chainsaw, gifted by some Right Wing Argentinian President, engraved with a slogan Trump can neither read nor translate…is our opinion.
For as long as he’s held office, Trump has never brought any strategy to the table, any policy making prowess to the conversation, any insight into long term national development.
He has always been the prop for the political ventriloquist because of what he can’t offer in place of his patented nativism and his assortment of oddly adolescent ‘smear names’.
Preying upon his worshipers by appealing to their lesser parts from his lower end, Trump created a movement of people who felt elevated by the embrace of a figure well above their social stature who claimed to be fighting for their rights.
The combination of conning and crowds made for great investment for the Far Right looking to retake their government, their country.
But even his enticing stream of unconsciousness is waning, revealing itself for the show that is, as ‘the day one pledge to reduce “groceries” is now at a 3% increase, with eggs being sold as ‘loosies’ and prices soar because of bird flu which cannot be urgently addressed because DOGE has cut Public Health funding.
Frightening things are happening too, to his followers.
Non DEI people that they know, sometimes they themselves, are being fired by some Afrikaan, who came in on a green card and got billions in their tax dollars that made him rich enough to fire them who voted for Trump.
Measles, deemed eradicated since 2000 , is on the rise, as a Health and Human Services Secretary, known more for drug addiction, bear eating and worm brain affliction, is commissioned to oversee national health, in an Administration in which there is hardly comedy in its errors.
The slow rolling collision between buyers remorse and the feeling of being duped has begun.
America is now at the mercy of a confidence trickster, an Afrikaan who bought his way into governance and a Constitution at the mercy of the interpretation the Right Wing Americans BLANK Prosperity ,which owns six of the nation’s Supreme Court Judges.
American exceptionalism… vandalized by an adjudicated vandal…who would be part of the upper class had he been privileged for membership in the Diversity Equity and Inclusion that his congenital limitations interpret as discrimination against White men.
I love this article, Verian. I like the way you break down what’s going us and spit out the truth so we can understand. Thanks again.