One of Marxist revolutionaries’ most effective tactics wasn’t
literally storming the palace— it was slyly capturing the certification process. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist theoretician, called it “the long march through the institutions,” meaning to infiltrate cultural organs not with guns, but with
gatekeeping power.
The USSR mastered this model early, building parallel structures of party-approved unions, academic boards, and scientific councils—each vouching for the ideological purity of the others. In the West, the same approach evolved, virus-like, into a web of cross-reinforcing credentialing bodies: bar associations, accreditation boards, medical colleges, journal editorial committees—all marching in rhetorical lockstep.
They all work together. One group sets the guidelines, another “independently” evaluates compliance, and a third awards legitimacy. It’s Marxism in a business suit or a lab coat, spouting peer-reviewed footnotes. By the time anyone asks who made
them the arbiters, they’ve already rewritten the standards and discredited anyone not compliant with the guidelines.
As Bondi’s letter made clear, conservatives, Congress, and even originalist judges have complained for years about the ABA’s ideological capture—but no one ever did anything about it. Until
now. President Trump just ripped the beating heart out of the Marxist credentialing machine that has quietly policed judicial appointments for generations.
The impact could be enormous. Conservative judges aspiring to higher benches need no longer fear a secret ideological inquisition from the ABA— nor temper their rulings to avoid getting slapped with a scarlet “Not Qualified” label. For the first time in decades, judicial independence might actually include freedom from activist gatekeepers.
Once again, Trump
didn’t debate. He didn’t take to the bully pulpit and beg for fairness. He didn’t encourage the ABA to reform from within, or run a strongly worded op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. He just cut them out of the process. Snip! This may be what “Trump Always Wins” really means— not that he never faces setbacks, but that he doesn’t ask permission, and never stops pushing until the mulish obstacle breaks, bends, or becomes irrelevant.
Whether it’s trade policy, DEI bureaucracies, or the judicial gatekeeping cartel, Trump keeps marching
back through the institutions, while corporate media scribbles furious dissents. They expect a
fight. But he isn’t fighting, he’s carving them up like the knight who said “Ni.” Less scalpel, more greatsword.
Chop, chop.
Just like that: tariffs back on; MIT deletes DEI; Bondi kneecaps ABA; RFK Jr. axes $600M mRNA deal; and the Times accidentally spotlights Trump 2.0’s master plan—history, reversed; and much more.
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