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         Trump Is Bringing About a Regime Change Not Seen Since 1933

                       Mike Gonzalez | March 11, 2025

   The second Trump administration is engaged in the first real transfer of
   power since 1933. What is taking place is an attempt at national
   transformation, and that is never quiet. "Buckle up, there's more to
   come," I tell friends-not only here but especially those overseas-who
   express anxiety with what they see as turmoil.

   Transfers of power produce winners and especially losers. The losers don't
   accept their new status quietly, especially when they're used to winning.
   A pliant media amplifies the noise, creating cacophony.

   So we are at peak moaning. Go to any gathering inside Washington's
   Beltway, and you'll likely encounter the men and women who used to run the
   "permanent bureaucracy"-and thus expected to do so permanently-crying in
   their Chardonnay and spitting spitefully at Elon Musk.

   President Donald Trump's many fans in politics across Europe and Latin
   America intuit, however, that the rumble they hear means real change might
   be underway. They are elated because they, too, crave a transformation
   that will save national identity and end the drive to remake society along
   woke lines.

   But the largest center-right parties-the Christian Democratic Union in
   Germany, the Tories in the U.K., the Partido Popular in Spain, to cite but
   three examples-have wanted to continue pretending that for the past few
   years, what we have been experiencing is politics as usual. They likely
   fear that what is happening here is but a harbinger of what's to come to
   their countries.

   In the U.S., we had been in an age of regime politics for many years,
   giving us polarizing politics and societal division. As the writer
   Christopher Caldwell explained in his 2020 breakaway book "The Age of
   Entitlement," we have for a couple of decades engaged in an increasingly
   raw debate not over normal matters-say, top marginal tax rates-but over
   how the country was to be constituted.

   It was as though we had not just two competing visions, but two competing
   constitutions. One was hammered out in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787,
   and based on the Declaration's idea that God had endowed individuals with
   "unalienable rights." The other saw identity groups, based on such
   immutable characteristics as race and sex, as society's main protagonists.

   "Much of what we have called `polarization' or `incivility' in recent
   years is something more grave," Caldwell wrote. "It is the disagreement
   over which of these two constitutions will prevail."

   Ruling institutions such as the U.S. Agency for International
   Development-or USAID-the Smithsonian, public broadcasting, etc., catered
   to the identity groups and the new constitution.

   We were threatened, therefore, by the real possibility of regime change in
   America. Understanding that meant knowing "what time it is," a phrase that
   soon caught on.

   What Trump is now attempting is a restoration of the status quo ante with
   regards to some things (such as the reality that we have two sexes, for
   example, or the meritocratic ideal), combined with the shattering of some
   institutions and practices, and a deep redrawing of the two political
   parties.

   That is not a mere change in administration. These have taken place at
   least every four years, and sometimes eight (though Franklin D.
   Roosevelt's lasted a dozen years from 1933 to 1945, precipitating passage
   in 1951 of the 22nd amendment, limiting presidents to Washington's two
   terms in office).

   These changes in administrations have not, however, amounted to real
   transfers of power, though we have called them that. The bureaucracy that
   FDR enshrined to carry out his increase in government control has either
   kept the power that it has accrued over time, or has expanded it.

   Even under such conservatives as Ronald Reagan, the two Bushes, and Donald
   Trump in his first term, the bureaucracy that the media has taken to
   calling the "Fourth Branch of government" (spoiler alert, it's nowhere to
   be seen in the 1787 Constitution) successfully fought off all attempts to
   pare it to size.

   Reagan won the Cold War by defeating the Soviet Union, but he did not put
   a dent on the bureaucracy. In the case of Trump's first term, it was, in
   fact, the bureaucracy which, in the person of National Security Council
   official Eugene Vindman, provoked Trump's first impeachment. It was
   America's first attempted coup d'etat.

   Under liberal administrations such as those of Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy
   Carter and Barack Obama, FDR's bureaucracy grew by leaps and bounds. FDR
   created the alphabet soup of agencies and programs-the Agricultural
   Adjustment Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the FBI, the
   Tennessee Valley Authority, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the
   Securities and Exchange Commission, and many, many others-to administer
   his New Deal in the 1930s.

   LBJ expanded it with the Great Society, which created the public
   broadcasters, for example. Carter gave us the Department of Education, and
   Obama the eponymous Obamacare.

   "The way to think about Trump 2.0 is as the New Deal reversed. If FDR
   began the vast expansion of federal agencies that continued in the 1960s
   and 1970s, DJT is attempting to turn back the clock: to shrink the federal
   bureaucracy with a barrage of presidential decrees," sagely writes the
   historian Niall Ferguson.

   Barrages produce cacophony. But if you despaired about 5,288 to 6,294
   "gender-affirming" double mastectomies for girls who could be as young as
   12, with diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings, with teaching the
   idiocy that America began in 1619, with viewing all human activity through
   the "oppressor v oppressed" lens-to the point that you open the
   borders-then this cacophony is the "orchestral tutti" at the start of a
   symphony.
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-- Sean
 
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