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With all of this winning — and everyone on our side so united in the effort — perhaps it is time for a contrarian voice. I write this not because I necessarily believe it but because, frankly I — and, if you’re honest, you — don’t know the answer. Might we not be going too fast? Are we, by these wholesale and rapid cuts, risking throwing out the baby with the bathwater and, in so doing, be undermining our own well-being and the safety of our nation even as we make essential progress?

I surely understand — and share — the impulse to cut and cut deep both to root out the corruption and to reverse the damage of the political Left and their anti-American agenda that has left our institutions so deeply inefficient and compromised.

I also understand — and share — the belief that, given the fact that the Democrats could win back the House or the Senate (or both) in just two short years and that there is literally nothing they won’t then do to undermine this effort, there is a dire need for speed.

Still, it at least has to be asked if we might not be cutting too deeply too quickly and without enough forethought and, in doing so, perhaps leaving ourselves vulnerable to real and significant threats.

After all, as bloated and corrupt — both ideologically and financially — as many of these institutions have become, they were created for and do serve a purpose. Amongst other things, the FBI is tasked with preventing Islamicist and other terror attacks and the FAA was created to ensure that our skies are safe. These missions remain, even as we go about cleaning house. It just has to be asked if, along with the riff and the raff and the wrong, we might not also be letting go of some of the good, the right and even sometimes the mission-critical.

For some, the question is irrelevant. Rightly recognizing that the perversion of mission that has occurred over the past many years (decades) and other nefarious motivations that have overtaken so much and so many of our institutions to be a cancer that will, unchecked, be deadly to Western Civilisation, they accept the reality that cutting out that cancer might mean removing healthy cells as well. It’s a price both cancer doctors and they are willing to pay. Maybe they’re right.

Still, the doctor does everything in his power to ensure that the damage is minimal both by using precision tools and by not operating in haste. Are we sure we are doing that?

Let me be clear, this is not an argument for the status quo. Far from it. Over the past twenty-plus years, no one has worked harder or risked more than I have to defeat the status quo and the fight goes on. It is, in fact, only a question and one that I do not know the answer to but recognize that few on our side seem to be even asking.

I know that I will receive blowback for writing this article as some will see even the question as an act of disloyalty at so crucial a juncture in our war against the political Left, but it is essential that we loyalists ask these questions because there is no longer any other voice we respect or trust enough to listen to.

There is no longer a “loyal opposition” in the Democrat party whose goodwill and good faith might have earned them at least the credibility to be given a hearing. There is no longer a fourth estate whose honest efforts might have compelled us to at least give their case a listen. We now dismiss these voices out-of-hand and, sadly, as well we should and we must.

Thus, if we don’t question ourselves we risk becoming just an echo chamber, giddy on our victories and blinded to the risks. No movement has ever achieved success with unquestioned leaders and unquestioning followers. If no one else will do it, I’ll at least ask the question.

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