Isaac Newton’s third law of motion famously states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction: If you push an object, for example, the object pushes back against you with equal force.
It turns out this isn’t just a law of physics.
It’s a law of politics.
President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks thus far have run the gamut from traditional and well-established (Sen. Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Rep. Mike Waltz for National Security Adviser, Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy, Brendan Carr for FCC Chairman) to the more audacious and controversial (former Rep. Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services Secretary). What they all have in common is that they represent a precise reaction to the excesses and evils of the Obama-Biden bureaucracy that has, for over a decade and half, plagued American politics.
Take, as the most obvious example, Gaetz. Gaetz is charismatic and brilliant; he has been both aggressive and effective on the House Judiciary Committee. He is also, as has been widely reported, thoroughly disliked in the House of Representatives. He has been generally perceived as a destructive force, an egotist focused more on media coverage than on the functioning of the House; his defenestration of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was unpopular among his colleagues, with many believing that he pursued McCarthy vindictively based on his opposition to McCarthy’s House Ethics investigation against him.
And that’s precisely why Trump is picking him.
To Donald Trump, the Department of Justice has been an instrument of vindictiveness from his first days in office. From insiders in the DOJ working with the FBI to gin up the Mueller investigation to the Merrick Garland DOJ targeting him repeatedly under legally shoddy auspices, the DOJ has consistently represented resistance to his presidency. And so Trump has picked precisely the type of person he believes will clean out the agency from top to bottom.
Or take RFK Jr.
RFK Jr. represents a slap in the face to the traditional health establishment. He has a long record of controversial statements on everything ranging from 5G to vaccination. But he is a reaction to the overweening arrogance of a conspiratorial elite who crammed down Covid-19 misinformation on an industrial scale, told Americans that boys could become girls, attempted to wield the reins of government against their medical opponents and even tried to mandate vaccination on 80 million Americans. RFK Jr. is the natural reaction to a health policy elite who have made themselves radioactive.
Trump himself has always been a form of snapback against the overreach of what came before. Barack Obama tried to remake American politics in his image: high-handed, intersectional and replete with authoritarian overtones. Trump came along and ripped the idol off his pedestal. Joe Biden tried to transform American politics by radically reinterpreting the bargain between American citizens and their government. Trump is returning to reject that never-requested transformation.
Every political action has its equal and opposite reaction. No doubt the same will hold true in the future if Republicans overreach in their own way. But for the moment, it’s vital to recognize that the Trumpian backlash has been well-earned.
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Pity Gaetz dropped out.. One wonders, was that part of the discussions yesterday?
Or perhaps a well-planned trick shot by Trump on the political pool table of life, knowing full well Gaetz would not get approved, but was used to scare the **** out of lawbreaking dirty democrats knowing full well how they would equally and oppositely react to toss-out Gaetz, while Trump sneaks in his real candidate who appears to be a prosecutorial lamb, but in reality, is an even fiercer prosecutorial Lion. Those who broke our laws and abused our Constitution in Trump lawfare need to feel the full weight of the penalty of their crimes in fines and jail time, and Americans not be deluded in giving them a pass in order not to reflect the same warfare on them that they waged on Trump. Breaking the law is one thing, and enforcing the laws and punishing the law breakers is another, and NEVER should the two be confused, as is now being propagated in our media, even Fox News, to stay Trump’s hand to do to others what he should have done to Hillary, which by not prosecuting her, just motivated Joe, Nancy, Schiff and others to continue the business of political corruption as usual. Those guilty of crimes no matter how high in office, or who they know, MUST suffer the pain of their bad examples, lest the bad “Establishment” business as usual be allowed to continue, and get rewarded. The pain must exceed the rewards of stealing our freedoms, and our hard-earned tax dollars.
And even smarter, Gatexz can be nominated as the DEPUTY AG, which is a position NOT NEEDING The congress to approve!
In the American pool game of life where one ball strikes another for an equal and opposite reaction, Thank God America now has a Fast Eddie pool shark playing for our team, that can clean the table no matter what the odds or the pressure to win, Who, not only knows but appreciates “The color of money”, but that value of the American life force expended to earn and create it. When the Democrats racked the balls on the pool tables of political competition, it was those of American manhood in swift painful kicks to both collective American male gonads and Trump’s individual groin, whose own pair proved to be pure steel in defiance of their evil, and a unifying force of American manhood. The democrats thought we were playing billiards where the ball just randomly and unproductively bounces about the cushions of the table, where trump displayed his well honed trick shots that actually sink balls in the pockets for a score, instead of a democrat hand in our pockets that leave only loud manhood groans and sore groins.