I have a certain distrust for folks suddenly protesting political overreach if 4 years ago they were condemning COVID dissent. I remember literal demands for concentration camps to imprison anyone who dared defy, disobey, and disrupt.

Most now seem to be mainly mad the government is peeling back unconstitutional bureaucracy. Trump was open about his plans for DOGE in his campaign, and complaining about unelected people doing stuff after the past century and more of Wilsonian bureaucracy bloat is a bit rich.

The Department of Education is barely older than I am, and has failed by every objective measure. There is no authorization for government to fund foreign aid, especially if it's cover for CIA operations. Science belongs in the universities, not government labs or through government grants. Revert the alphabet soup of agencies to the states or the people as required by the 9th and 10th amendment.

That said, there is also plenty of room to criticize Trump on what I see as legitimate moral and constitutional grounds. He is an ignorant and pompous blowhard with an authoritarian streak a mile wide. His loudest critics just don't seem to see those issues the way I do.