In old 1980s horror movies, a knife-wielding, flannel-wearing serial killer is routinely killed—until he or she isn’t, and the franchise inexorably moves on to “Slasher the Sequel: This Time It’s Worse than Personal.”
I recall such mythic movie murderers not as a (literally) dead-end jaunt down memory lane but as a cautionary tale for Republicans and, indeed, all who hope to see the recent significant reductions in federal spending and, concomitantly, cuts in the administrative state’s bureaucracy to be made permanent. (The image of Elon Musk—the DOGE—clad in black and waving “the chainsaw for bureaucracy” is an irony worthy of the auteurs of the old French Nouvelle Vague.) Bluntly, these eliminations and reductions must be a solid first step—not an ephemeral swan song—in the effort to restore the primacy of citizens over their servant government.
Unless supporters of citizen-driven, responsive government pursue a vigilant, assiduous salting of the fields of the debilitated Deep State, the left—like Jason Voorhees and his homicidal celluloid ilk—will not only resurrect its administrative state Leviathan, but it will also expand its scope and control over the American people.
As it stands, our national debt is nearly $40 trillion. There are additional steps that President Trump and his administration can and must take to generate non-taxpayer revenue that can help address our crushing national debt.
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