A basic principle of the martial art Aikido is that instead of struggling against an attacker’s force, you work with it.
As I listen to Democrats continue to complain about how DOGE shouldn’t be given access to the private data of American citizens because it is staffed by ‘unelected employees’, it occurs to me that Trump is being handed a huge opportunity to make use of all that frenzied energy.
‘Gosh,’ he could say, ‘if unelected employees shouldn’t have access to the private data of Americans, then I guess I’d better sign an order shutting down the IRS, since it’s staffed entirely by unelected employees.’
At that point, he could go ahead and issue such an order… or he could just sit back and count how many different ways there are to say ‘But that’s not what I meant!’
Ruth Ward et Rick Ladd removenda sunt
