Does It Really Matter What Trump Does to the Feds?

Our dear friend Steve K. has just sent us the latest piece of hysteria from the alt-left digital echo chamber, a Substack story by Heather Cox Richardson about how Trump’s nomination of various friends and supporters to run government agencies will “destroy the American state and replace it with an authoritarian government staffed with partisans whose most obvious quality is their loyalty to Trump.”

Destroy the American state? That’s quite an agenda, wouldn’t you say?

What comes to mind as I read this dark and foreboding exercise in predicting the future by Professor Richardson, is I wonder exactly what will be the result for most of us and how we will live our lives if Trump is able to eliminate or at least greatly reduce the power and authority of the American state?

In that regard, I consider myself to be a rather typical or average American citizen as regards the extent to which the federal government has had any impact on my life over what is now my 81st year since I was born at Garfield Hospital in Washington, D.C. in 1944.

I think it was in 1958 when I got a part-time, after-school job doing something or other that I went to some government office near where I lived on Staten Island, registered for Social Security, and was given one of those blue wallet-size cards.

The next time I had any contact with the Feds was when I applied for and received my first passport in 1969 so that I could go to France and do my…