New talking points have gone out, and left-wing journalists and pundits have agreed that claiming the nation is in some sort of “constitutional crisis” is the soundest strategy to aid their beloved Democrats in their time of need. You could be forgiven if you believed members of the corporate press are just now discovering the Constitution, considering that they display profound ignorance of the nation’s founding documents at any available opportunity. But the shift in language from “Republicans are Hitler” to “save the founders’ legacy” is likely more malicious than it is mindless.
People like the Constitution and the natural rights it safeguards. Journalists understand this, and they are likely hoping their audiences forget the press has led the charge to destroy constitutionality, namely the First and Second amendments, for decades. Unfortunately for the media, the “crisis” that keeps them up at night, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and its mission to rid the federal government of waste, fraud, and abuse, is also quite popular with the public.
The Left’s commitment to perverse ideologies has forced it to defend extremely unpopular positions since losing the 2024 election. As Musk and crew uncover one instance after another of reckless, wasteful misuse of tax dollars, Democrats and journalists find themselves defending positions wildly out of step with the vast majority of people.
After the Federal Emergency Management Agency neglected the victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, it was caught red-handed funneling $59 million to New York City to fund luxury hotels for illegal aliens, according to Musk. To date, DOGE has saved taxpayers almost $38 billion, canceling wasteful contracts such as funding for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the National Institutes of Health museum. (Perhaps the entire NIH museum could be on the chopping block next?) DEI programs have been eliminated across the federal government, and the nefarious, propagandistic work of the U.S. Agency for International Development is being clawed back. The people are just fine with those developments.
Adding to the shamelessness of the press’s decision to declare that opposition to the Left is a constitutional crisis is the fact that these same journalists ignored a plethora of wildly unconstitutional acts by the Biden regime. Former President Joe Biden’s repeated attempts to undermine the Constitution via his illegal vote-buying student loan forgiveness scheme were praised by the corporate press, as was his decision to raid the home of his political opponent.
Journalists covered up the former president’s senility at every turn until, of course, they couldn’t, and I struggle to think of a constitutional crisis greater than the leader of the free world revealed to be nothing more than a puppet for special interests and his own hard-left, ideology-obsessed staff. Aside from pardoning murderers, terrorists, and almost every member of his family, Biden’s focus in the waning days and hours of his presidency was to attempt to tweet an amendment to the Constitution into existence. Tell me more about the constitutional order, journalists.
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Congress last declared war in 1942 against Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria, and despite never declaring war since WWII, the U.S. has fought wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (twice), and Afghanistan and has involved itself in civil wars and conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Lebanon, Libya, South Sudan, the Congo, Niger, Kosovo, Bosnia, and Grenada, just to name a few. The Patriot Act allowed unprecedented illegal spying on citizens, and as former President Barack Obama admitted, “We tortured some folks.”
However, real crises like these leave journalists with the resting heart rate of an Olympic triathlete. Spare me if I don’t buy the press’s outrage over Musk and the gang’s attempt to get the nation’s fiscal house in order.
Brady Leonard (@bradyleonard) is a musician, political strategist, and host of The No Gimmicks Podcast.