POLITICS: A Trump presidency would cut past the red tape and unleash an age of US innovation

An army of unelected bureaucrats stands athwart American progress and freedom, yelling “Stop” — which presidential candidate will beat the blob and unleash prosperity and dynamism again? 

It’s a no-brainer: Donald Trump. 

Just look at the utterly dismal regulatory record of the Biden-Harris years. 

Mountains of red tape.

Metastasis of the HR mindset into every corner of the government. 

The asphyxiating climate has gotten so deadly that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just blasted it at a bankers’ conference in Manhattan: “It’s time to fight back. I’ve had it with this s–t.” 

So has pretty much everyone else.

The blob doesn’t know how to innovate.

The blob doesn’t know how to engineer. 

No-one incarnates this willed stagnation better than Harris fave and current Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan. 

Khan’s fought from the start to hamstring people like Elon Musk — visionaries actually pushing American tech and industry ahead into the future. 

The tech titan bought Twitter in 2022; the FTC then began a campaign of blatantly targeted regulatory harassment against the Tesla founder. 

Of course this was political in nature: Khan simply dislikes Musk’s views and wanted to use her power to punish him for them. 

But it’s part of a pattern with her of taking big swings against big companies for the sin of their success (though, thank God, she usually whiffs them). 

She went after Meta for buying VR company Within, and failed. 

She did the same when Microsoft bought gaming major Activision Blizzard. 

But the insidious power of the regulatory state is such that Khan doesn’t even need to win in court: She and her biz-hating cronies reportedly celebrate the dozen-plus deals preemptively abandoned by big firms scared of the federal onslaught as “victories.” 

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Those are failures. 

Can you imagine where we’d be today if the FTC and FCC and the whole rest of the alphabet soup had strangled, say, Intel or Apple or Nvidia in the cradle? 

The more than 2,000 federal agencies include the likes of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, the Stakeholder Engagement Division at Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Defense Department Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. 

The federal workforce grew from 2.07 million in 2015 to 2.19 million in 2022, a 5.3% jump, and that doesn’t include the military, intel agencies or the ever-growing ranks of “Beltway bandit” private contractors. 

Worse, these faceless, gray-souled tinpot tyrants don’t restrict themselves to stupid interventions in industry. 

The same cadres come up with and enforce the nonsensical DEI mandates that have spread like a virus through the federal government itself and almost as widely in the private sector (though happily there has been real pushback there, with John Deere and other big names backing off). 

The Biden-Harris administration implemented a whole of government DEI push early in office; it has embraced again and again the most extreme rules around gender identity and race, and has done everything it could to make sure that ­big-name companies got the idea as well. 

And that’s to say nothing of its effort to stifle and strangle free speech. 

Those range from trying to set up a literal Ministry of Truth — the abortive Disinformation Governance Board — to leaning hard on social media platforms in efforts to suppress viewpoints they disapprove of. 

Or the Biden-Harris war on US energy production, a major crusade for this administration since Day 1. 

Can you imagine a starker contrast to Trump? 

The man is a serial entrepreneur: He understands that the economic dynamism of America is a key — perhaps the key — ­element of its global preeminence. 

Look at his embrace of Musk, making the tech titan one of his most prominent surrogates. 

And look, too, at his first term: An economy untrammeled by progressive dementia around pronouns and equity and green nonsense, combining fantastic growth with historically low inflation. 

(And to ex-Prez Barack Obama, who tried to take credit for it, we can only say: You didn’t build that.) 

Trump knows enough to stand aside and let Musk, Palmer Luckey and other visionaries charge ahead. 

He unleashed the power of our domestic energy industry as well, instead of doing his best to kill it. 

As Trump himself put it during his massive Madison Square Garden rally, “I’m asking you to be excited about the future of our country again. I’m asking you to dream big again . . . . This will be America’s new golden age.” 

If you love your country and the future, the choice is clear: Vote Trump in 2024.