The Fevered Dreams of Democrats Teetering on the Edge

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a certain beauty in destruction, poetry in letting the whole rotten machine sputter, lurch, and collapse under the weight of its hypocrisy. And if Senator Andy Kim and his Democratic cronies have the spine they claim, they might do the one thing that could make America great again: shut the government down.

It’s almost too perfect. The Democrats, self-styled guardians of bureaucracy, suddenly rediscover the power of sabotage—wielding it like a drunk swinging a lead pipe in a bar fight. Kim is openly toying with the idea of refusing Republican demands to keep the government funded, citing Trump’s apocalyptic gutting of federal agencies as the excuse. USAID, the Department of Education—useless appendages, according to the administration, and if they go under, so be it.

And maybe that’s the angle here. Let them crash it. Let the whole thing fold like a cheap card table in a hurricane. Kim whines about “dismantling the government,” but that’s the point. The bloated corpse of a system has been groaning under its weight for decades, held together by red tape, fear-mongering, and the trembling hands of bureaucrats too cowardly to let go of the illusion.

If the Democrats followed through—if they let the funding dry up and the wheels seize—they’d be doing the work of their supposed enemies. Trump and Musk, those two madmen bent on reshaping America into their images, wouldn’t even need to lift a finger. The government would crumble under its contradictions, a beast too sick to keep dragging itself forward.

And yet, there’s a pitiful inevitability to all of this. The Democrats will hem and haw, threatening to hold the government hostage, only to cave at the last minute like they always do. The Republicans will bungle their way into some Frankenstein’s monster of a budget, filled with half-measures and bloated nonsense, ensuring that nothing ever truly changes.

But if they don’t—if they finally embrace the chaos, if they finally say “fuck it” and let the ship sink—then maybe, just maybe, America might finally get the bloodletting it so desperately needs.