Dave Weigel: “Democrats love to explain the ‘chaos’ President Donald Trump is inflicting in Washington. Hakeem Jeffries, who likes to talk in alliterative triplets, calls this a time of ‘chaos, cruelty, and corruption.’ Midterm candidates say they had been impressed to run to combat the ‘chaos.’ After I adopted potential presidential candidates to South Carolina this month — Gavin Newsom and Andy Beshear had been simply there, Ro Khanna en route — heads nodded at any point out of chaos or exhausting DC information.”
“Think about that you just’re not watching that information…. The administration needed a set of tax cuts by July 4, and it bought them. It needed DOGE to hole out ‘woke’ federal businesses; after some embarrassing courtroom reversals, it bought that. It needed to defund public media and finish overseas support, and it pulled that off with one thing any prior Republican administration may have completed: Impounding the cash, then getting a GOP majority to claw it again.”
“The anti-Trump ‘resistance’ has completed what it promised in December, and made all of this more durable. However month by month the administration is dismantling authorities applications that will be onerous for anybody to reconstruct, and setting new priorities that will probably be onerous to reverse.”
“Particularly: Republicans have discovered, 3 times this century, that in the event that they minimize earnings taxes, Democrats will maintain a lot of the cuts in place.”
