Portrait of Victor Davis HansonOver these first few days of the Trump administration, we’ve seen these bold measures. And it’s starting to incur a big backlash, or anger, or counter response from the Left.

And it runs something like this: well, yes, maybe this needed correcting, but it’s going to be so expensive, do you understand what you’re doing? You’re supposed to be cost-cutters and now you’re going to spend all this money to rectify something. It’s almost as if, well, the person who’s going a hundred miles drunk and when you pull him over the cost to arrest him, to bring him into the police station to arraign him, to indict him, to impound his car, is so much more than the damage he did by going a hundred miles and endangering people.

So, you don’t arrest him, in other words. So, here’s what I mean, we’re told, oh, Donald Trump is spending billions of dollars to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, does he have any idea—well, who emptied it? When he left office, there was about 650 million barrels. It got down to 340. It’s only 40—I mean, he took almost half of it. …

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