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The Panic Is the Point: Why the Progressive Elite’s War on Trump Has Nothing to Do With Trump

The Panic Is the Point: Why the Progressive Elite’s War on Trump Has Nothing to Do With Trump

They aren’t attacking Trump because he’s dangerous. They’re attacking him because he proved they’re not in control.

May 04, 2025
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This isn’t about Trump. It never was.

The elite meltdown we’ve witnessed over the past eight years—every courtroom ambush, every media blitz, every alphabet-soup agency leak—isn’t driven by fear of one man. It’s driven by fear of losing the system they built to control everything else. When Trump tore through the narrative machine, exposed the hollow center of their cultural power, and refused to play by their rigged rules, he didn’t just win an election—he cracked their illusion of authority. And they’ve been scrambling to glue it back together ever since.

The panic is the point. And it tells us everything about who’s really running scared.

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