This isn’t going to sit well with the Nazi King crowd.
Fresh off their failed efforts to convince the American people that Donald Trump is a goose-stepping version of George III, the Democrats have been hit by yet another salvo of unassailable facts. As it turns out, Donald Trump is the opposite of a dictator, and the numbers bear this out.
We find these facts in The Federal Register, a document that might fairly be described as the daily diary of Big Government’s depredations on our Essential Liberty. Indeed, the Register is the official journal of the agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices of the federal government. And its pages are, right now, being churned out at a record low pace.
Facts are stubborn things.
“It’s July 1, mid-year 2025,” begins Wayne Crews at Forbes. “The federal regulatory landscape has undergone a dramatic transformation. After years of relentless compounding of federal rules and regulations and Federal Register pages — capped by Joe Biden’s self-proclaimed ‘whole-of-government’ executive actions on the likes of DEI, ESG, net-zero and the ‘care economy’ — conventioal [sic] federal regulation as we have known it has largely stopped.”
How can this be? you ask. And rightly so. After all, ever since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, you’ve been buried beneath a deluge of mainstream media reporting about his authoritarian despotism, his monarchical tendencies, his rank Third Reichishness.
These are lies. James Freeman at The Wall Street Journal piles on: “At the risk of ruining his media reputation as an authoritarian, Mr. Trump now appears to be setting a modern record in avoiding telling Americans what to do. Specifically his administration appears to be imposing far fewer rules than its recent predecessors. What’s more, even when Mr. Trump does issue a directive, it’s often simply to tell Americans that they no longer have to follow another directive previously issued by someone else.”
Dude is the worst Nazi ever. The worst authoritarian ever. In fact, when it comes to deregulation, Donald Trump is the OG — the Original Gangster. Recall that soon after taking office, after the dust from his initial flurry of executive orders had begun to settle, Trump issued a directive stating that for any agency to put forth a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must first finger “at least 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to be repealed.”
Thus, when it comes to Big Government, when it comes to unaccountable bureaucracy and freedom-sapping regulation, Donald Trump is the LVP — the Least Vexatious President.
The Trump administration’s contributions to the Federal Register are largely deregulatory, and its page count by year’s end would be somewhere around 58,000. That sounds like a lot, but consider the 2024 Register under Joe Biden: It came in at an all-time record 106,109 pages, easily breaking Barack Obama’s 2016 record of 95,894 pages.
“Yet regardless of whether one likes government large or small,” Freeman adds, “surely everyone can agree that Mr. Trump’s current regulatory restraint is historic. What kind of dictator doesn’t like telling people what to do? Put another way, perhaps some of Mr. Trump’s presidential predecessors have been unfairly underrated as authoritarians.”
On this glorious Independence Day weekend, though, let’s try to show some compassion toward those hangdog Democrats. Yes, they’re rooting against America’s success, and, yes, they’re trying to tell us that Trump is a tyrant, but that dog ain’t gonna hunt. That unprecedented winning streak of his? It’s a mirage. That secure southern border, those record highs in the stock market, and those four-year-low gas prices? Ditto, ditto, ditto. Nothingtoseeheremovealong.
Were political fortunes a game of Texas Hold ‘Em, the Democrats would be holding 2-7 unsuited. Were it a Fourth of July bash, it’d be raining sideways, and their potato salad would be rancid.
Have a great weekend, and have mercy on them.
