At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing.
To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year.
Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad.
But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curbing the madness that his predecessors fueled.
And so none did—until now.
Not since Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid and mass implementation of the New Deal administrative state have Americans seen such radical changes so quickly as now in Trump’s first month of governance.
Americans are watching a long-awaited counter-revolution to bring the country out of its madness by restoring the common sense of the recent past.
It is easy to run up massive debts and hard to pay them back. Politicians profit by handing out grants and hiring thousands with someone else’s money or creating new programs by growing the debt.
Yet it is unpopular and considered “mean” to spend only what you have and to create a lean, competent workforce.
Someone made the mess and someone has to clean it up. It just happens that WE are the ones to have to do the cleanup job, no matter how odious it is or will become. Victor Davis Hanson does his usual job of listing the evidence of the mess and listing just how it looks like it will be cleaned up. There are a lot of places where most people in the country want to fix the mess and other places where they are more interested in tearing it all down and burning it up. Who do you think will compete their task?