04b Theory and Analysis

Originally published February 14, 2025 for our End-of-Month Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get semi-monthly issues.

By Paul Collier, Editor

“A clear view of the difference between the province of constitutional law and the province of administrative function ought to leave no room for misconception; and it is possible to name some roughly definite criteria upon which such a view can be built. Public administration is detailed and systematic execution of public law… The broad plans of governmental action are not administrative; the detailed execution of such plans is administrative. Constitutions, therefore, properly concern themselves only with those instrumentalities of government which are to control general law…

Our peculiar American difficulty in organizing administration is not the danger of losing liberty, but the danger of not being able or willing to separate its essentials from its accidents. Our success is made doubtful by that besetting error of ours, the error of trying to do too much by vote. Self-government does not consist in having a hand in everything, any more than housekeeping consists necessarily in cooking dinner with one’s own hands. The cook must be trusted with a large discretion as to the management of the fires and the ovens…” – Woodrow Wilson, from The Study of Administration

INTRODUCTION

As President Trump moves to cut down the administrative state, the courts are now responding to his moves with aggressive rulings that could cause the President to ignore their rulings altogether, come what may. The story of the administrative state versus Trump, though, began long ago, in the mind of a professional man who was pondering this question: How can America overcome the limits of democracy and liberty?

On December 31, 1887, a policy wonk named Woodrow Wilson penned an essay called “The Study of Administration.” In that essay, Wilson outlined a dream of a new America that would free itself from the shackles of a democracy without surrendering the principles of a democracy.

That dream was fulfilled in the administrative state, where an army of “experts,” people who would use the broadly written language of laws to create more de facto laws not held accountable to public opinion. This would be accomplished using regulations, specifically the regulators, unaccountable legislators, that write the new de facto laws.

Wilson would become President in 1913, a year that saw the Income Tax created, the Federal Reserve created, and State Legislatures lose the power to select Senators. America was becoming more “Democratic” and more well-funded. The seeds of Wilson’s administrative state were created.

Over 100 years later, Wilson’s administrative state has grown into an anti-American leviathan, with its tendrils infecting every major American institution and almost every American life. A recent SCOTUS ruling that struck down the so-called Chevron defense, a legal precedent that conceded constitutional interpretation to the administrative state, effectively struck down the heart of Wilson’s administrative state. This makes creating new deeply buried slush funds for the anti-Americanist party, the DNC, much more difficult, so the pain of losing what they have is even more pronounced.

Now, DOGE and Trump are coming for Woodrow Wilson and his regulator army.

A. THE RISE OF THE AMERICANIST BILLIONAIRE

A civil war has broken out in America that takes us one step closer to a “hot” civil war, which is still far worse than this less invasive version that’s being fought right now. This war is being fought in government buildings in D.C., America’s capital. This war is being fought in U.S. courtrooms across this country. This war is being fought on social media around the world. This war is being fought in newsrooms and film studios. This is a war between the administrative state, the party in power, and the defenders of the republic, the counterrevolutionaries.

1. THE PROGMERICANS – On the one side, we have the Democratic Party and their loyal rearguard, the “RINOs” (Republicans in name only) that still seem to have a lot of power in national, state, and even local leaderships across America. This group has essentially bought into what one might call “The China Model,” which is a model that supposes one can have a “mixed economy,” one that allows for controlled “capitalism” enjoyed by the party favorites, and one that still exercises socialist control over the unfavored masses.

What attracted American billionaires to the China model was the idea they could enjoy the fruits of capitalism, mainly its creative power over socialist markets, while not suffering the full consequences of “true” capitalism, competition from the hoi polio.

When it comes to the DNC, the line between the DNC-captured corporation and the state is so blurred that it has become almost invisible. For instance, the Soros family gave millions to DNC-interest groups, even largely bankrolling the rise of so-called “Soros DAs,” far-left anti-crime Attorney Generals like Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg, people willing to violate American Rule of Law for the sake of the party.

Yet, the Soros Family has also received millions from USAID, one of what will most likely turn out to be multiple DNC slush funds designed to spread woke leftism abroad and insurrection at home. So where does the state begin and end with the Soros family? There is no separation, it would seem, to this writer.

2. XI ARRESTS THE BILLIONAIRES – After Chairman Xi became the de facto chairman of China in 2016, by earning the title of “Core” leader, he moved swiftly to purge those not in his trusted circle by using corruption charges as the tip of that purging spear.

After he was done with the political class, he turned his sights on the billionaire class, which is when American billionaires took notice. Some began to realize that a socialist system, even with capitalism for the party favorites, is still a police state system, making any billionaire vulnerable to the whims of a leader like Chairman Xi no matter how much wealth the party allows them to accrue.

3. BIDEN ACTS LIKE XI – The billionaires on the inside of the heart of DNC power felt a little safer, believing, perhaps, they could never be one of the rogue billionaires that would get caught up in the leader’s crosshairs. The billionaires on the outside of DNC power began to see the writing on the wall.

The acceleration of the rise of the anti-woke billionaires came through the DNC’s poor decision to prosecute Trump, political opponents, J6ers, and even pro-life activists. They could see for themselves up close the real power of the woke left to destroy the opposition using lawfare and any other means they might find at their disposal.

They started to believe the Democrats were the violent revolutionaries (since 1913) seeking to create an oppressive police state that we always said they were. They knew one thing: if Trump lost in 2024, they might be the next to be hauled off to prison.

So they threw in with Trump, dodged literal bullets, and now, with the creation of DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, the Americanist billionaires (Trump, Musk) are battling the Progmerican billionaires by going after the heart of the DNC.

The heart of the DNC power is its magical, nebulous government-created-and-protected slush funds. These funds were created by Wilson’s administrative state, and now they are its lifeblood.

4. THE BATTLEFIELD EMERGES – But the Americanists aren’t just fighting the slush funds; they’re fighting the wall of DNC bodies that stand as human shields to protect those funds, the bureaucrats, the unelected de facto DNC activists using government funds to subvert American interests both at home and abroad.

In front of those bureaucrats is the first line of defense, the DNC judges, the Judges willing to subvert American Rule of Law to advance the interests of the DNC, the party of Progmerica, the police state, where American liberty dies. This is that struggle so far.

B. THE PRIZE FOR VICTORY, THE COST FOR DEFEAT

What’s at stake for the DNC is the very survival of its key advantage, the ability to create the illusion of social acceptance, social ascendancy so the woke left can continue to use its most powerful weapon, social ostracism, as a legitimate expression of organic power (or grassroots power as opposed to what it really almost always is, astro-turfed power).

Through its control of most of the major institutions in America, the Progmericans are able to create the illusion that their way is the right way, the commonsense way, and anyone outside of that orthodoxy is rightly socially ostracized, if not imprisoned, if not killed.

But the ideology is antithetical to human flourishing, so only deception, fraud, and coercion can sustain it. For that, they need to control the means of social, cultural, market, and civic production, which they mostly do.

Should they lose even the majority of it, let alone all of it, this writer predicts a dramatic shift in political worldviews in America when Americans learn their American beliefs and American values are NOT fringe views that are code for white supremacism as the DNC media would have you believe.

Should the axe fall on even just the majority of their slush funds, the effect will be profound. It will ensure the Democrats will have to either abandon the anti-American wokism it decided to ride to power or cease to be a party at all.

C. DOGE BREACHES THE BEAST

After DOGE accessed the Treasury Department’s payment data when Homeland Security Officers had to be called to remove resisting bureaucrats from the premises, they discovered a far-left slush fund called USAID. Soon after, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly halted the operation (more on her later).

It was decided that the operation, the forensic investigation of government budget by DOGE, could continue after the DOJ agreed to a proposed order that would allow only two Musk-approved, but Treasury Department-employed people to have access to the data in read-only mode. These two special employees are Tom Krause and Marko Elaz.

The window into the soul of the so-called deep state, the USAID, would continue, and DOGE would expose, in detail, an operation that spanned the world, that funded the press, at home and abroad, and created many unaccountable funds worth billions. The heart of Woodrow Wilson’s administrative state lay bare for the world to see.

1. USAID SOCIAL – Here is a bulletin of just a few woke left activist groups USAID funded (from PJ Media):

• $1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.
• $14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department.
• $20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador through the State Department.
• $47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department.
• $32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru through the State Department.
• $55,750 for a climate change presentation warning about the impact of climate change in Argentina to be led by female and LGBT journalists through the State Department.
• $3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID.
• $7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada through the State Department.
• $80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia, through the State Department.
• $3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department.
• $16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society” through the State Department.
• $10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values” through the State Department.
• $8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cyprus through the State Department.
• $1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia through USAID.

2. USAID PRESS – In addition to pushing woke left ideologies, USAID also funds major leftist media outlets, including Politico and the New York Times. This is a story that might be a future MIA report (events permitting) involving more than just USAID indirectly funding corporate media.

The use of slush funds to prop up media outlets telling Americans to hate themselves while inciting violence on a daily basis makes these same media outlets vulnerable if the slush funds are shut down.

After all, when the press continues to spread hateful messages, they lose customers, and they can only sustain themselves if they are being subsidized. In this case, they are being illegally subsidized by the government.

USAID was also behind funding the work done by these same insurrectionists to spread the Russia Hoax, a psyop that was intended to remove not just a sitting President, but the entire political opposition, criminalizing dissent in the name of safety against the Russian demon.

From townhall.com:

Public’s Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag once again dove into this sordid world of (supposed) NGO activity and government funding: they found that OCCRP pushed the Trump-Russian bank/money laundering myth.

USAID and the State Department appear to have created a vast network to co-opt the international press. These agencies funneled $472.6 million to Internews over the last 17 years. As of 2023, Internews operated out of 30 countries and had reached over 778 million people. The organization trained over 9,000 journalists and nearly 4,300 media outlets worldwide.

Jeanne Bourgault, Internews’ CEO, advocated for exclusion lists on social media “to combat disinformation” of disfavored views at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2024. The WEF then issued a report naming “misinformation” as the number one “Global Risk.” 

Through these methods, USAID specifically, and the U.S. deep state in general, have used taxpayer money not only for censorship, but also for propaganda, agenda setting, and information control around the world. 

As a result of their discoveries, Trump and his Secretaries have been slashing jobs and offering buyouts to others. They’ve also canceled what funding of leftist fake news outlets they could.

D. WILSON FIGHTS BACK

After a few thousand jobs were slashed, lawsuits ensued immediately, mostly filed in DNC-controlled courts. One immigration group suing Trump, CASA, is being funded by the government to the tune of $12 million from 2022-23 alone. Even as this report is finalized, news of more district judges striking down Trump’s orders are STILL coming in.

A good summary of the work being done by the DNC-serving courts was written by John Daniel Davidson from The Federalist:

Federal judges in Democrat-majority districts have issued preliminary injunctions blocking Trump’s executive actions to end birthright citizenship, reform and downsize the United States Agency for International Development, and offer buyouts to federal bureaucrats. A federal judge this past weekend blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and all other political appointees in the Trump administration – including the Treasury secretary and his deputies – from accessing payment data at the Treasury Department.

… (Another judge, appointed by Obama, took the extraordinary step of ordering the administration to pay back every cent of federal funding that’s been paused or canceled – and threatened anyone who violates his order with criminal contempt.)

What all this lawfare amounts to is a kind of judicial coup against the sitting president. By doling out injunctions like they’re USAID grants for LGBTQ awareness programs in Mali, Democrats have been able to hamstring key aspects of Trump’s agenda – at least for the moment. It’s a simple enough tactic. All Democrats have to do is shop for a venue to find the most activist, rabidly anti-Trump federal judges in the country, file their lawsuits, and wait for the injunctions to come raining down.

Vice President JD Vance tweeted, “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal.” This seems like pretty aggressive language to me.

President Trump has filed an Emergency Motion to dissolve the TRO to cancel the most aggressive judgments. From President Trump’s filing:

At approximately 1:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 8, 2025, this Court issued an ex parte Temporary Restraining Order that purported to limit access to a vast swath of Treasury systems to only “civil servants,” while prohibiting “all political appointees” from doing the same. On its face, the Order could be read to cover all political leadership within Treasury – including even Secretary Bessent. This is a remarkable intrusion on the Executive Branch that is in direct conflict with Article II of the Constitution, and the unitary structure it provides.

There is not and cannot be a basis for distinguishing between “civil servants” and “political appointees.” Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the President. A federal court, consistent with the separation of powers, cannot insulate any portion of that work from the specter of political accountability. No court can issue an injunction that directly severs the clear line of supervision Article II requires. Because the Order on its face draws an impermissible and anti-constitutional distinction, it should be dissolved immediately.

The war in the courts continues, with a recent ruling in Trump’s favor offsetting the far-left judges’ treasonous actions. U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. removed his freeze on federal employee payouts.

The Democrats know their heart of power is under assault. Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) yelled out at a rally, “We will not take this! We will fight back! And god#%m it, shut down the Senate! We are at war!” Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) screamed, “Pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist!”

The Democrats are calling for street fights and threatening to “get up in their faces” while their DNC-serving judges are threatening to arrest Trump if he doesn’t comply with their unconstitutional orders. One Democratic Party U.S. congressmember recently threatened to meet Elon Musk with “actual weapons,” and encouraged his followers to do the same.

Robert Garcia (D-CA). said “Well he is a d#%k, and I think he’s also harming the American public in an enormous way. What I think is really important and what the American public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight… This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country, and it’s important to push back on the chairperson of this committee.”

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

The heart of this battle, right now, is in the courts, and the DNC has polluted it with activist party members who hold no loyalty to a country they’ve been trained to believe is merely a white supremacist demon that helped invent or completely invented evil itself.

The DNC-controlled courts will do what they must to protect the party from being politically executed before our very eyes. The question is, what will the Americanists do in response? This could be the flashpoint where the civil war of today becomes something awful tomorrow.

If SCOTUS intervenes quickly and settles most of the lawsuits in Trump’s favor, expect to see Progmerican billionaires begin leaving the country to head to friendlier climes. There may be some token blue state resistance, but this will not devolve into a hot civil war, as the counties outside the cities in those states will quickly make it clear they stand with Trump.

If SCOTUS intervenes quickly and sides with the bureaucrats, America will face a constitutional crisis, one I don’t think Trump will back down from. In this scenario, we will soon devolve into a hot civil war. If Trump fails to defy the courts, the bureaucrats have won, which will also lead to a hot civil war, but not as quickly as it will if Trump defies the court orders.

This writer supports Trump ignoring the court orders, for he would know that to preserve this infestation is to guarantee the destruction of the republic, so he will have nothing left to lose. Blue states will form associations but will not officially secede from the union; rather, they will simply not recognize the authority of the Trump Federal government. Numerous states will issue arrest warrants for Trump and every other member of his cabinet.

Blue States will see counties within them revolt, peacefully, doing to them what they just did to Trump, refusing to recognize state authority. Maps will emerge that will show the true reality of power for Progmerica, that the Democratic Party is overwhelmingly a city party that lacks real presence in most of the country.

Outside of the cities, Progmericans do not gather in significant numbers. If the maps reveal this reality, expect the shooting war to be averted. If not, this is when the shooting war begins.

If SCOTUS fails to act quickly, the battle will be over the hearts and minds of the people, with the DNC hate machine, the info-terrorist-insurrectionist media, pulling out all the stops to scare Americans into thinking reining in government bureaucracy and spending is somehow white supremacism.

Believe you me, friends, in the woke left parlance, the shortest path to cutting off critical thinking and winning every “debate” is to convince the sycophant their enemy is the devil himself, which is what “white supremacism” really means. It is a dog whistle for the devil, Satan, Old Scratch himself. This time will be no different.

But the use of yell-shaming as a means of human control eventually breaks, and the human ends up breaking their spell over them, laughing at the wokist’s taunts, its baseless accusations, and its hysterical cries.

If SCOTUS drags its feet and allows these cases to slowly work through the courts, this will mean more violence Americans will have to face, and more blue state tyranny Americans behind enemy lines will have to face.

With only state power to thug their enemies with, the people in blue states will soon be reminded of the difference between Trump’s America and Progmerica, where they now live. This will cause those who might not be able to afford to leave to STILL leave for red horizons, as the exodus from woke continues.

Their ability to fund more city burnings is less than it was, but city burning is coming, and the response from Trump might be heavy-handed, as it probably should be.

If this writer is right, the power of the media to mold American opinion is diminished more and more every day. Their power is so waned that I do not believe the lies they tell onscreen will overcome the reality Americans feel in their lives every day.

They want this rot gone, even if they don’t fully yet fundamentally understand that this rot is centralized in one entity, the DNC, the Democrat National Corporation.

If the spirit of America is as strong as I believe it is in this land today, this will be the last gasp of the latest iteration of Hell, the Democratic Party and its woke left vehicle of power. Still, it will hardly be the last we hear from Hell, for Hell never shuts up, and WILL NEVER shut up until Christ returns.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Woodrow Wilson’s Administration and Achievements: Exploring the Impact of Wilsonian Politics on American Progress and Global Affairs – Frank B. Lord, James William Bryan

The Study of Administration – Woodrow Wilson

Democracy and Administration – Brian J. Cook

The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State – Thomas W. Merrill