The rot turned up by DOGE in Washington, D.C. should alert every thinking person to the dangers of an all-powerful central government.

You know, the one that left-wing Democrats refer to as “their democracy.”

The election of Donald Trump on Nov. 5 likely prevented the United States from falling into the slime currently affecting Europe where realistic people, i.e.conservatives, are being squeezed out of the selection process by judicial chicanery including overturning election results after conservatives win at the ballot box.

It happened in a different way in Germany. Apparently I was mistaken in a recent column when I said that Germany took a right turn in its recent elections.

It is correct that two conservative parties won more votes than the ruling left-wingers in the recent Bundestag voting Beege Weldon, writing in a recent article in Hot Air on Townhall, pointed out that the “conservative,” Friedrich Merz, after winning the top spot with another conservative party right behind appeared ready to form a conservative government to replace the leftist one voters opposed.

But no. Merz took steps to ally with the third-place “liberal” party – which enacted the measures the voters voted against –almost assuredly meaning the same policies would continue.

Weldon described this as “saving democracy from itself,” adding: “… Instead of a heroic saga of the triumph of the people, it’s more an authoritarian Keystone cops tragi-comedy flavored by the usual dark Euro-twist,” Weldon wrote.

The addiction to “free” government money is the primary threat to freedom across the world.

One might think America solved the problem with the election of Trump, but I wonder.

Remember, 75 million Americans voted for Kamala Harris in the last election, just a few points below Donald Trump in his surprise victory.

How much more propaganda by a now delegitamized media would it take to swing the election back to a leftist victory where only the affluent power broker would have the final say-so in all matters.

Columnist Mark Lewis, who admits to being a pessimist (realist) describes the Democrat opponent to Trump in the 2024 election like this: “Seventy-five million people voted for the stupidest, most corrupt, most incompetent, most decadent, most evil gargoyle ever to be offered to the American people as a Presidential candidate. … people who obviously cannot see what Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the Democratic Party in America are.”

I have to agree. While Republicans took all three branches of government, it doesn’t mean the corrections being made now are permanent.

While the pendulum appears to be swinging to the right, just the smallest mistake could turn a few percent to go the other direction.

At that point, America would be plunging toward economic ruin.

It might be considered that a collapse of the U.S. economy, which is near with a $32.2 trillion national debt, would trigger a worldwide depression and the misery that represents.

I’m no economist, of course, but it doesn’t take a genius to realize when your interest payment is the largest deduction on your family budget you are near bankruptcy.

The Trump actions in cutting waste in the federal government won’t solve the problem overnight. It will take years – some say 10 years – to get the federal government budget back to a reasonable level.

Victor Davis Hanson, brilliant California author, educator and now video presenter at The Daily Signal and on YouTube, accurately points out that to have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of three million illegal aliens a year.

“Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad,” he said.

He describes the current important efforts by the Trump team to create a solvent federal government this way: “Most of the Trump people are not high-fiving while firing people. They are not laying off miners or frackers and directing them to go ‘code’ or dismissing half the country as ‘deplorables.

“The Left screams that those who are tasked with balancing a budget and pruning back a strangling bureaucracy are heartless.

“No, the pitiless are those who recklessly sought to hire with borrowed money and fire people on the basis of their race, used federal programs to feather their own nests, and harassed and arrested those for their politics. No SWAT teams are now raiding the homes of ex-presidents. No one is trying to take a presidential rival off state ballots. No one is coordinating local, state, and federal prosecutors to indict, harass, and bankrupt an ex-president. And no president–his dementia sheathed by political insiders and a toadish media–is working three days a week, avoiding press conferences, or stonewalling reporters’ questions.

Hanson also added this historical context: “No wonder the current normal seems abnormal to the status quo of the recent past.

“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.”