Leftists Cry as Trump Obliterates Their Patronage Network ｜ 2⧸6⧸25
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Summary
After receiving a stunning electoral mandate and opening his second term with a flurry of executive orders, Donald Trump has overwhelmed his liberal opposition. Progressives have struggled to find a narrative foothold on which to oppose the real estate billionaire, but the left have finally settled on spending cuts to foreign aid as their vector for attack.
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and opening his second presidential term with a flurry of executive orders,
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Donald Trump has overwhelmed his liberal opposition.
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Progressives have struggled to find a narrative foothold
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on which to oppose the real estate billionaire,
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but the left have finally settled on spending cuts to foreign aid
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Trump placed a 90-day hold on foreign aid in one of his executive orders,
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and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency
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has subsequently identified the U.S. Agency of International Development
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Democrats and their media allies hoped that by drawing attention to U.S. aid,
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they could frame cuts to the program as an act by callous billionaires
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who don't care about poor Africans being denied AIDS medication.
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That plan has backfired, and as the public learns more about U.S. aid,
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they're quickly discovering how much of their tax money is being stolen
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to fund deeply evil projects in foreign nations.
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Most Americans like the idea of being generous,
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but recognize the importance of taking care of their own nation before assisting others.
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Foreign aid is an easy sell when everyone is prospering,
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spending tax dollars on foreigners takes a back seat.
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Democrats have been screaming hysterically about the millions of lives
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but this has created an instance of the famous Streisand effect.
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Americans are realizing that the left don't care about poor or sick people abroad,
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but are instead crying because their massive slush fund
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dedicated to pushing progressive ideology is coming under fire.
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While progressives care deeply about their own ideology,
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they realize that ultimately politics is about rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies.
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and the left folded into every action they take and every institution they build.
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and the fact that progressives embrace it while conservatives are repulsed by it
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goes a long way to explaining the dominance of leftist politics in the United States.
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Progressives have turned the agency into a tool to reward their allies domestically
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and build a network of ideologically aligned organizations overseas.
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The U.S. foreign aid budget may help some needy individuals overseas,
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but its primary function is to fund a progressive global empire while treating Americans as a tax farm.
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It would be bad enough if progressives were just taking tax dollars that could be helping American families
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and instead using it to pay off their political allies,
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Democrats, the media, and the foreign policy establishment love to portray U.S. aid as a critical tool of diplomacy.
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In reality, the money committed to the agency is not simply wasted on political favors,
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but actively used to fund some of the most heinous projects imaginable.
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Politico masquerades as an independent media outlet in the United States,
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but has received over $8 million from U.S. aid.
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The BBC Media Action Fund, the charity influence arm of the British state media,
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listed U.S. aid as its second largest contributor.
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Let's not forget that the BBC is the state media of a government
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which is actively arresting its own citizens for speaking out about its immigration policy on social media.
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The American government funding both domestic and foreign media is an obvious and deeply immoral conflict of interest,
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The agency has a policy that is specifically designed to integrate LGBTQI plus ABC rainbow ideology
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into all of its development work, especially when it comes to the education of children.
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USAID is responsible for providing $45 million in scholarships to help influence the governing elites in Burma.
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The agency dedicated $500,000 to expanding atheism in Nepal.
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$32,000 was spent to push transgender children's books in Peru.
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Another $70,000 to develop a DEI musical in Ireland.
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And $70,000 to fund a transgender opera in Colombia.
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In 2016, $300,000 was spent to queer school children in the Christian nation of Macedonia.
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DEI seminars in Serbia, leftist magazines in Poland, trans inclusion organizations in Bangladesh,
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all funded by tens of billions of dollars of American tax money.
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Progressives aren't simply paying off their friends abroad,
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which itself would be completely corrupt and inexcusable,
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but they're bribing foreign governments and organizations to indoctrinate and corrupt children.
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The American people are slowly discovering that an evil global empire has been operated in their name.
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The global advance of leftist politics was neither organic or inevitable,
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but a carefully planned and funded program operated out of the American deep state.
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Democrats have attempted to reframe the suggested elimination of U.S. aid by Musk
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as the cruel work of an unelected billionaire and his technocratic lackeys.
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Now that's particularly rich coming from a party that is funded by George Soros and worships Anthony Fauci.
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Trump was elected in no small part due to the support of Musk
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and the promise that the SpaceX founder would be placed in charge of identifying
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and cutting malicious or wasteful government agencies like U.S. aid.
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In this moment of strong executive action by Trump,
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breaking too many institutions and upsetting the established order.
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Progressives are disoriented by Trump's ability to seize the initiative
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and the only narrative they have attempted to establish
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has inadvertently brought attention to how deeply the entire Washington bureaucracy has been corrupted.
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The president has the electoral mandate, the moral justification,
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and the executive vigor to make permanent change possible,
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and he should continue to strike while the iron is hot.
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The political theorist Nicola Machiavelli advised that if one does injury to an enemy,
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it should be so severe as to ensure that no reprisal need be feared.
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If we are to have a revolution that returns us to governance on behalf of the American people,
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Trump is devastating the global leftist patronage network,
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but because it removes the ability of progressives to punish conservatives.
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The agencies of the United States government must be brought to heel
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but capable of striking back at those who attempted to reform them
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would be the biggest strategic blunder imaginable.
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