MAGA Republicans are going to prevail in the next two national elections. We are going to applaud so much that our hands will hurt.  This is going to come about for a composite of reasons, the most obvious being the Democrats’ complete lack of available talent. 

Their most marketable candidate is California’s Governor Hair Gel, but the reality of his state’s decline during his watch is an enormous albatross hanging around his neck.  He’s soon to be termed out and will then be condemned to spend over a year wandering in the wilderness, preaching to the choir.  Other than Newsom, all they have left is the obviously stupid and used-up Kamala, while other wannabes will be grappling for media attention and finding slim pickings.  Then, of course, there are always AOC and Beto...AKA “The Brain Trust.”

The real impediment that is keeping the Dems away from noticeable success is their profound advocacy for a seriously unpopular agenda.  There is really no viable constituency for the genital mutilation of children, let alone the facilitation of a foreign invasion of the U.S. coupled with suppressed assimilation and the imposed tolerance of criminal conduct.  And just now the coddling of criminally syndicated narco-terrorists has reared its ugly head.

To Democrats, there’s always a shortage of tax revenue.  The sacred cow of public transportation has been eclipsed by more convenient and less capital-intensive means, such as Uber, Lyft, and Waymo.  Rather than just yield to common sense, the perpetrators of government-provided conveyance are shouting from the rooftops for more taxes in order to further subsidize the maintenance of their pet dinosaur.

As a result, change is in the air.  This change is transcending ideology and has been demonstrated from a rather unlikely source.  Tom Steyer is a tree-hugging hedge fund billionaire.  He’s also a wannabe politician.  And he’s running a self-funded campaign for the Democrat nomination to replace Hair Gel.  Probably since his on-air persona is so obnoxious that he makes even Hillary Clinton seem cute and cuddly by comparison, he has little likelihood of ever going anywhere.  But he’s hitting a nail on the head: Beyond ideology, he’s attacking government.  He burps out a list of particulars, with affordability being the primary problem he intends to solve, and just like a true political hack, he makes no reference to how he might do this.

The old word “Populist” has been dusted off to describe those on board with this trend.  Now may I introduce, instead, the word minarchist to describe a proponent of extremely small government, as compared to anarchist, an advocate for a world devoid of all forms of authority.

It’s not hard to recognize that the overbearing, authoritative force we call “government” is a necessary evil.  We can strenuously object to much of the evil part, but we still have to embrace the necessary part, in spite of some of its glimmerings of evil.  The smallest government that still manages to do what is necessary is the optimum.  It is, of course, not a perfect world, but still we try. 

It may be interesting to watch for defections from the lapdog media supporters of autocratic micro-management.  There already seems to be a trickle, but job-jockeying is fairly common among the scribes

Last, but not least, we come to Mr. Trump.  Is he the catalyst who triggered this trend?  Or is he simply a symptom of a deeply brewing discontent?  What can be said is that he has shown that he’s a good learner.  Taking lessons from his first term, he has been much more careful and wiser in the selection of his accomplices.  He has also developed better discipline in dealing with his many critics.  He is now much less likely to take their bait and get trapped in pointless verbal conflict.

As an added bonus, I hereby present a link to British folk rock icon Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band performing “The World Turned Upside Down” — which was the late 18th-century pop tune that was played by the British band as Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War.  

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