As Democrats scramble to resist a second Trump administration, they have landed on a consistent attack: Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their GOP allies, they say, are upsetting the status quo with “chaos,” “dysfunction” and “uncertainty.”
But if Democrats hope to land their blows, Republicans are cheering them on. Disruption, the GOP insists, is precisely the point.
“We promised to reduce the size and scope of government, and there’s been so much action on that that it’s caused controversy,” Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters last month after a federal judge paused the Office of Management and Budget’s attempted federal aid freeze.