Have you noticed lately the enormous outpouring of praise and adoration from “conservative” Republicans and their media buddies for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for doing such an amazing job at cutting costs? Such praise is…
Adopting the “No MAGA left behind” mantra created by a member of his DOJ, Donald Trump is engaged in a dictatorial abuse of power by issuing pardons to individuals based solely on their fealty to the magnanimous mango messiah. During…
As predicted by The Strident Conservative, Donald Trump is using the border security issue to expand government’s mass surveillance capabilities and ultimately give Big Brother what it needs to track anyone and everyone it chooses. Earlier this month, US Customs…
Donald Trump is using tariffs and trade wars to build an economy much like the one Ayn Rand warned us about in her book, Atlas Shrugged. If you’re a regular reader and/or listener of The Strident Conservative, you know that…
In the early 1970s, then-President Richard Nixon developed a political enemies list to be used to take down his political opponents. One of the methods incorporated by Nixon to accomplish this task involved using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to…
Over the past few weeks, Donald Trump has put the pedal to the metal when it comes to his authoritarian assault on liberty and the Constitution in the name of safety, so it should come as no surprise to learn…
Let’s not mince words: The Trump April 28 executive order is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook: martial law masquerading as law and order. We are being frog-marched into tyranny at the end of a loaded gun. Or rather,…
