By Mary Rooke, Daily Caller News Foundation | January 13, 2025
Leftist propagandists in so-called “legacy media” still haven’t figured out why no one trusts them. Despite President-elect Donald Trump receiving an undeniable green light to enact his agenda, the editorial board for the Washington Post laid out a plan of attack against the voter mandate handed down on Nov. 5. Their first plan of action is to tank some of Trump’s intended Cabinet nominees.
America is at a critical crossroads. Voters understood this when they – once again– elected Trump as the change agent candidate. The country is exhausted from endless wars, proxy wars, illegal immigration, and a failing economy. Trump was the only candidate in the race who saw Middle America’s pain and provided an actionable plan to end the establishment stranglehold and return power to the people.
An important part, if not the most critical part, of Trump’s ability to see this change come to fruition is staffing the federal government with people who wholeheartedly believe in the mission and know how to accomplish it.
Like clockwork, the panicked left began strategizing how to stop Trump. Enter the Washington Post editorial team. In the same breath, WaPo admits that Trump “deserves deference in building his team” but qualifies their resistance by claiming that he should only receive the right to staff his cabinet with people who meet their standard of “competence, temperament, or philosophy.”
The outlet brazenly created an “unacceptable vs. acceptable” chart with cabinet picks they believed should be confirmed or not, adding a disclaimer that “[s]hould any material emerge during confirmation hearings that changes this picture, we will update our evaluations in the chart.”
While they approve of people like Scott Bessent for Treasury, Pam Bondi for Attorney General, and Kristi Noem for Homeland Security, their list of “unacceptables” includes almost every change-agent type pick. Those receiving a thumbs down from WaPo include Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services, Russell Vought for Office of Management and Budget, and Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence.
It seems that the lesson voters tried to teach the left and their media goons fell on deaf ears. Americans no longer want to be controlled by their standard of “competence, temperament, or philosophy.” For decades, their policies took the most powerful country in the world and neutered her. We are failing to accomplish anything of importance for everyday citizens while enriching a globalist regime that hates us.
In short, no one cares if WaPo or any other left-wing outlet takes issue with someone Trump has picked to serve us. The only standard of measure voters care about is winning back the American Dream they stripped from us.
Probably one of the greatest blessings of the Covid hysteria and the Biden administration is that the media lost its ability to pontificate on moral standards. Americans no longer trust them to be impartial arbiters of truth, and thus, a new marker has emerged.
You can almost guarantee that if someone from the Washington Post or similar outlets creates a chart of who not to confirm, that person will disrupt the establishment elite. It’s not a perfect standard, but it’s considerably more reliable than believing whatever drivel is shoved out of the legacy media machine.
Democrats and their media friends gave Republicans a golden opportunity to lead. If the GOP wants to stay in power, they must confirm Trump’s change agents and give his administration the tools it needs to enact the voters’ wishes. If they don’t, they will regret playing ball with the losing side in two years when the midterms come around.
Mary Rooke is a commentary and analysis writer at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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