It has been a whirlwind since Mr Trump took office on January 20th. It is not too much of a stretch to compare Elon Musk’s DOGE raid and swift dismantling of USAID’s operations last week to the fall of the Bastille in Paris in 1789 in historical significance. Putting aside the grand rhymes of history, the revolutionary fervour in the Washington DC air is palpable as the deep state is being dismantled in real time.
With the daily revelations of corruption and subterfuge in the nation’s capital unearthed by the Trumpian revolution, there is the growing perception among ordinary people that the gap between reality and official narratives peddled by the mainstream media is ever wider. Nowhere is this disjunction more on display than in the areas of climate change and energy policy after President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement.
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