Evisceration. . .

(Evisceration. . .) 


Before it was an Oscar-Winning feature from 1970, the film Airport had been a best-selling novel, by Alex Hailey. At a make-believe Chicago, Lincoln International Airport, under the worst snowstorm in ten years, Airport General Manager, Mel Bakersfeld, had to deal with the storm, a stuck airliner, a belligerent brother-in-law, a stowaway and one with a bomb on board one of the flights, and an un-happy wife. Bakersfeld had been a nominee to run the Federal Aviation Administration, for the Kennedy Administration. Then November 22nd happened, and President Johnson had his own ideas as to the FAA head might be, and it was not Mal Bakersfeld. Bakersfeld' wife, Cindy, who had been looking forward to the D.C, cocktail circuit, was severely disappointed that the best that her husband could manage was a backwater like Lincoln.


Like Cindy Bakersfeld, a lot of people got spooked after Trump was elected and most continue to freak out. If that is putting it mildly. Some are saying that Trump's is the most significant Presidency since George Washington. Abraham Lincoln could also be considered. But whatever else, Trump's accomplishment, which is nothing short of remarkable, Cindy Bakersfeld, who expected to be Mrs. FAA, was an expected casualty.


As was the entire Democratic Party. Not just the candidates that lost but the ideology. The DEI or the CRT. The trans-gender lobby. The open borders and American weakness abroad. That mindset that had been hailed when President Biden had first been elected. That people wanted boys in girls' bathrooms. That new pronouns had to be enforced. That paying more in taxes was just. The list continues.


However, what President-Elect Trump is attempting is a similar "evisceration" of the federal bureaucracy. Thousands of employees across dozens of agencies are being targeted with possible termination. Cleaning house has never been taken so literal. Trump has identified the people tasked with his direction, his Cabinet selections who will determine if the President-Elect succeeds, of fails.

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