The left is screaming that President Donald Trump is on some kind of ideological crusade.
Some recent headlines: “Trump and Musk’s Purge Isn’t Cost Cutting — It’s a Coup”; “Doge is About Ideology and Mindless Budget Cutting”; “Elon Musk’s Indiscriminate Carnage”; “Dems Must Stand Up Against the Bully in the White House.”
It’s sort of like labeling a company CEO ideological because he is driven to keep his company profitable and competitive.
One column in The Guardian says Trump is “lacerating the structures of U.S. democracy.”
In other words, protecting taxpayers and running the country efficiently is anti-democratic. But forgiving $189 billion of student loan debt — done under Biden — and dumping it all on taxpayers is not. Or government spending trillions and larding it all onto the federal debt rather than raising taxes is…
