It wasn’t quite the fall of the Berlin Wall. But it was still a notable occasion when “Black Lives Matter Plaza” began to be dismantled in Washington, D.C., a few days ago. The city had emblazoned the phrase on a stretch of road near the White House in summer 2020. Created at the peak of the left-wing political madness enabled by Covid-19, the plaza was one part virtue signal by a government left-wing enough to represent a jurisdiction more Democratic than any state, and one part thumb in the eye of Donald Trump, then president.
An unexpected consequence of that madness was Donald Trump’s return to the White House, after four years of a president who foolishly embraced the excesses of progressivism. Trump has devoted much of the first few weeks of his second presidency to vigorously assaulting the D.C.-centered federal bureaucracy. If he sustains this effort throughout his presidency, it could meaningfully reduce the Swamp — in ways the rest of us should welcome, but for which we should prepare ourselves.
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