Campaign Update by David Blackmon

Campaign Update by David Blackmon

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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?

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Nov 17, 2024
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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?
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[Note: Another excellent, insightful commentary by Victor Davis Hanson posted on his X feed. This one echoes several themes I’ve written about here in recent weeks.]

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Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?

Many of Trump first-round picks share some common themes.

One, many, who were in the past victimized by government bullies and cowardly bureaucratic grandees, or proved sharp critics of the administrative state, are now, in karma-style, in charge of the very agencies that hounded him.

So, Elon Musk, perennial target of government regulatory functionaries, was once policed, but now he polices the bureaucratic police.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., proposed overseer of government health programs, was often blasted as a crank by the subsidized scientists and the administrators within HHS whom he will now direct.

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