Josh Hammer

Maybe it was around the time that Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, came within millimeters of assassinating him before a global television audience. But at some point, at some point, Donald Trump had kind of his Clarence Thomas 1991 Anita Hill moment where he looked at all this radicalization around him and said, you know what? This is enough. I am over this. And you know what?

Maybe it was around the time that Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, came within millimeters of assassinating him before a global television audience. But at some point, at some point, Donald Trump had kind of his Clarence Thomas 1991 Anita Hill moment where he looked at all this radicalization around him and said, you know what? This is enough. I am over this. And you know what?

To quote Barack Obama, get me my freaking pen, get me my freaking phone, because this crap ain't gonna fly anymore come day one. And that was what we saw last week, Andrew. We saw all these executive orders. I mean, the DEI executive order alone, just focusing on that one executive order, and there's been so many amazing ones, it's hard to know even where to start.

To quote Barack Obama, get me my freaking pen, get me my freaking phone, because this crap ain't gonna fly anymore come day one. And that was what we saw last week, Andrew. We saw all these executive orders. I mean, the DEI executive order alone, just focusing on that one executive order, and there's been so many amazing ones, it's hard to know even where to start.

There's been the gender ideology, birthright citizenship. It's amazing stuff coming out of this White House. But just the DEI executive order It doesn't just get rid of DEI in the executive branch. It actually goes way past that.

There's been the gender ideology, birthright citizenship. It's amazing stuff coming out of this White House. But just the DEI executive order It doesn't just get rid of DEI in the executive branch. It actually goes way past that.

It instructs the attorney general and the secretary of education, the whole cabinet, to enforce Title VI and to interpret the Supreme Court's affirmative action case, Students for Fair Emissions, so as to effectively ban DEI in any taxpayer support institution in America. This is the kind of stuff that wins culture wars overnight. So again – Let's not rest on our laurels.

It instructs the attorney general and the secretary of education, the whole cabinet, to enforce Title VI and to interpret the Supreme Court's affirmative action case, Students for Fair Emissions, so as to effectively ban DEI in any taxpayer support institution in America. This is the kind of stuff that wins culture wars overnight. So again – Let's not rest on our laurels.

I understand, like, you know, constant vigilance, and let's keep our foot on the gas pedal and keep on plowing full speed ahead. But for now, for now, what we have seen is the stuff of legends, frankly.

I understand, like, you know, constant vigilance, and let's keep our foot on the gas pedal and keep on plowing full speed ahead. But for now, for now, what we have seen is the stuff of legends, frankly.

It kind of reminds me, as I said in the column, I remember when I was a kid learning about how the English took over what was then called New Amsterdam, and then they renamed it New York City from Peter Stuyvesant to the Dutch in the 1600s. They famously took it over without firing a single shot because Because it was just a pure, unmitigated demonstration of force.

It kind of reminds me, as I said in the column, I remember when I was a kid learning about how the English took over what was then called New Amsterdam, and then they renamed it New York City from Peter Stuyvesant to the Dutch in the 1600s. They famously took it over without firing a single shot because Because it was just a pure, unmitigated demonstration of force.

And the enemy yielded at that demonstration of force. That's very much how I view what happened over this past week.

And the enemy yielded at that demonstration of force. That's very much how I view what happened over this past week.

I absolutely do. I think I think that J.D. Vance is vice president. United States is kind of the natural heir to the throne. And we'll obviously have that debate, I presume, in the year 2028. But God willing, the next four years will go well. And and J.D., who is literally only 40 years old, is kind of a logical successor there. And that's part of the reasons that Donald Trump tapped J.D.

I absolutely do. I think I think that J.D. Vance is vice president. United States is kind of the natural heir to the throne. And we'll obviously have that debate, I presume, in the year 2028. But God willing, the next four years will go well. And and J.D., who is literally only 40 years old, is kind of a logical successor there. And that's part of the reasons that Donald Trump tapped J.D.

Vance in the first place. Right. And because he's making a long-term play here. I mean, look at his cabinet picks. I mean, you mentioned Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth is, what, 44, 45 years old? I mean, so many of these cabinet picks are very, very young people. This is a movement, Andrew.

Vance in the first place. Right. And because he's making a long-term play here. I mean, look at his cabinet picks. I mean, you mentioned Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth is, what, 44, 45 years old? I mean, so many of these cabinet picks are very, very young people. This is a movement, Andrew.

And what's so fascinating is that MAGA, America First, just being on the right of center right now in America, more generally speaking, This is cool. I mean, this is kind of the anti-establishment mentality, the same way that Barack Obama was considered irreverent back in the 1960s, all the quote-unquote self-professed cool kids were burning down college canvases, the Vietnam War, all that stuff.

And what's so fascinating is that MAGA, America First, just being on the right of center right now in America, more generally speaking, This is cool. I mean, this is kind of the anti-establishment mentality, the same way that Barack Obama was considered irreverent back in the 1960s, all the quote-unquote self-professed cool kids were burning down college canvases, the Vietnam War, all that stuff.