The Work to Restore Our Republic is Just Beginning

Just as the Founders intended, the American people have used their First Amendment rights and freedom to vote, and rebuked the Democrats for their political malfeasance and hubris. Of course, they’re [the Democrats] avoiding the real causes of their political disaster - their long leftist project to “fundamentally transform America,” as Barack Obama infamously put it...

Trump must staff federal agencies and his cabinet not just with the competent and ethical, but also patriots and Constitutionalists... The issue isn’t just partisanship, but the very nature of large-scale government bureaucracies that are not accountable to the citizens...

Every one of the 4000 positions filled by presidential appointment should be replaced by employees who are thoroughly vetted...

Take, for example, the idealistic, “rules-based international order,”... 

The best example of this malign dynamic is Iran’s ongoing development of nuclear weapons, which is close to success. Barack Obama and leaders from several other nations created the 2015 “Iran deal” that promised to keep the theocratic regime from achieving its aim. The West’s foreign policy establishments... transferred billions of dollars to the Mullahs despite the intelligence provided by Israel that documented the continuous violations of the treaty...

Similarly, Pentagon appointments and hires must comprise those who reject DEI protocol...

All these dysfunctions reflect the growth of a big-state technocracy... The progressives, like other collectivist governments, have always wanted government controlled by “scientists” and “experts” who know better than citizens how to create “progress” and “social justice.”

In other words, the tyranny of the minority...

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, we’ve rescued our Constitutional Republic, now we have to keep it, and that will require diligence and holding our leaders accountable.

Trump Has Another Opportunity to Defang the Deep State, by Jarrett Stepman, Daily Signal, 13 November 2024.