Across Tolkien’s epic, fate forces four heroic characters to face the same choice. They’re not our central figures, the common folks—hobbits—who unwittingly find themselves possessing Sauron (the greatest enemy of freedom)’s greatest weapon – the “One Ring to rule them all.” Not knowing what to do with such a weapon, they seek first counsel and then aid from the wisest, strongest defenders of their freedom. Doing so presents four such grandees (Gandalf, Galadriel, Boromir, and Faramir) the chance to take and wield the Ring against Sauron as he prepares his final assault on the West. Gandalf, Galadriel, and Faramir turn down the offer in turn, concluding that using the Ring to destroy the current threat would leave them an equal threat to the free of the future. Only Boromir seeks to take and use the Ring to defend all he holds dear against the very real enemy on the march.
Once re-inaugurated, Donald Trump will face the same choice.
As a candidate, he promised to reverse his predecessors’ embrace of faddish discrimination across the government, to end racial preferences, to reverse efforts to foist them across the private sector and to confront the (inter)national conspiracy against the rights of (Jewish and other) Americans which has unfolded across countless so-called “demonstrations” blocking roads, byways and college campuses over the last 15 months, even before a co-conspirator drove through New Years’ revelers on Bourbon Street.
Within the next administration, many of those best-positioned to follow through on these promises will sit in the U.S. Department of Education. But as a candidate, Donald Trump promised to close the Department of Education, a 45-year-long, failed experiment, a cautionary tale demonstrating the harms of hypothetically well-intentioned, extra-constitutional forays of feds into a policy area where they have no proper role.
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