President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to the federal bureaucracy appears to be working.

Nothing bedeviled Trump’s first term more than the outright resistance and hostility within the federal government to his administration. Armies of hostile bureaucrats stymied his plans, coordinated with legacy media to cook up negative stories, and generally behaved as if they—and not the president—had a right to run the executive branch.

Trump is now better prepared to take on the Leviathan.

The #Resistance isn’t looking nearly as formidable these days. Its defeat was deeper, the outrage from the American people is sharper, and Trump is more relentless in getting a handle on the federal apparatus.

That isn’t to say that resistance isn’t taking place. On Sunday, a small group of federal employees gathered at the Office of Personnel Management to demonstrate their opposition to Trump’s shake-up of how the government does business. They reportedly intend to protest at OPM all week.

The protesters appeared to number in the dozens, at most. So, this isn’t exactly a latter-day Million Man March. It might not even be the hundred-man march. Many appeared to be wearing medical masks.

Democrats are now protesting outside of the Office of Personnel Management to seemingly protest the USAID audit and the treasury audit that OPM is helping DOGE with.

2025 is not 2016. The public isn’t showing up for the Dems, even in deep blue D.C.

Why do Dems fear audits? ??

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