Commentary
The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have been weaponizing the federal government against their political adversaries since January 2021. Perhaps they seek to turn the U.S. federal bureaucracy into the mirror image of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing that controls every aspect of Chinese society—and one that brooks no political dissent from the Democratic Party line just as the CCP tolerates no dissent.
Consider the following actions by the Biden administration since January 2021: The continuing J6 star chamber that provides the political cover for the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to hold Jan. 6 protesters in solitary confinement for months while awaiting their trials (never mind the failure of the FBI and DOJ to prosecute violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters throughout 2020).
The military standdown imposed in February 2021 by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to supposedly root out “extremism in the ranks” (a statistically irrelevant problem exploited for expressly political purposes).
In June 2021, Biden signed an executive order “to advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal workforce” (never mind that DEIA is really just a euphemism for the divisive Marxist critical race theory that targets white Americans).
In April 2022, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of a “Disinformation Governance Board” to supposedly counteract “disinformation aimed at the US population and infrastructure” (never mind the First Amendment that protects political speech).
The June 2022 executive order directed “federal health and education agencies to expand access to gender-affirming care and advance LGBTQ-inclusive learning environments at American schools” (never mind that the U.S. Constitution is silent on such matters, the responsibility for which is delegated by the 10th Amendment to the states).
The signing in August of the grossly misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act,” which includes around $46 billion for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and provisions to hire 87,000 new IRS agents (since there aren’t that many billionaires, whom will those agents be targeting?).
The unprecedented FBI raid of the home of former President Donald Trump on Aug. 8 and subsequent raids and subpoenas on dozens of Trump’s former staff and advisers (a continuation of five-plus years of political hit-jobs by Democrats to “get Trump”). An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 15, 2022. (Marco Bello/Reuters)
The latest example of Biden’s weaponization of federal agencies involves the issuance on Aug. 31 of “Implementing Instructions for Executive Order 14057, Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.” EO 14057 is about forcing unsustainable green energy technologies into the federal government and subsequently throughout the U.S. economy to displace all of America’s hydrocarbon energy sources under Biden’s “Federal Sustainability Plan.”…