So the curtain falls on Trump’s so-called ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund. A noble idea, perhaps, if we lived in a world where the man himself wasn’t the chief weaponiser of the state. But here we are.
Republicans, once again, play the part of the outraged parent scolding a child they themselves have raised. The fund, designed to protect citizens from the deep state’s machinations, has been shut down by the very people who claimed to champion it. Cue the predictable cries of ‘Deep State victory’ from the peanut gallery.
But let’s not pretend this was ever about justice. It was about theatre. The same theatre that has seen the GOP morph into a party of performative outrage, a shadow of its former coherence.
We have seen this before: the late Roman Republic, where populists like Clodius used tribunician powers to dismantle checks and balances. Trump’s fund was a Clodian ploy, a tool to rally the base while enriching allies. Now that it has served its purpose, the Republicans turn on it, feigning fiscal conservatism.
The real irony? They will now pivot to blaming Democrats for the very weaponisation they enabled. The cycle continues, and we, the audience, are expected to applaud.
But history does not applaud. It judges.
