Trump Admin Goes After 'Big Egg'

First of all, let me hand it to David Strom of the conservative Hot Air blog. I have lately found conservative media -- once a refreshing place for intelligent takes absent from conventional media -- to now be largely a stinky, festering swamp inhabited almost entirely by brain-dead conspiracy nuts, Trump fanbois, and other cranks.

You can only read so much from people who generally seemed to know better five seconds ago, but are now racing to be the first to defend Trump's latest dumb move.

But not this time.

Strom takes the current administration to task for its Bernie Sanders-worthy witch hunt of "big egg" over the latest predictable increase in egg prices following a wave of bird flu:

In just the past two months, over 40 million chickens were euthanized to prevent the spread of this nasty disease.

The Trump administration, though, is following the Biden playbook and pointing fingers at egg producers and darkly suggesting that evil egg producers might be price gouging and driving up the price of eggs out of malign intent.

That is just dumb, both as a theory for why egg prices are going up, and as a way to treat the intelligence of the American people. This is AOC-level economics, and I have to say it ticks me off more than a little bit. [bold added]

Strom ends as follows:

Yes, I know I am supposed to be a cheerleader for my team, and I do quite a bit of that when warranted, but I don't want my team to become the same as what I despise.

Good on Mr. Strom for raising an issue I have long wished somebody MAGA-adjacent would raise: What's the point of 'winning' if all you do is turn around and implement the worst kinds of policies of the politicians you defeated at the polls?

On that, see also Trump's anti-trade/high tax tariff foolishness (which the House GOP just doubled down on), the nutty left's anti-vaccine hysteria (now mainstreamed by RFK, Jr.), and our new, one-sided "alliance" with Russia, which is still an enemy to the West, including us.

It is interesting to note that, just as Trump could quickly help our economy by dropping all his new tariffs, he could nuke the equally avoidable, government-induced egg price problems now and forever -- by getting the government out of the way of the poultry industry adopting the bird flu vaccinations other nations have used successfully.

I won't be holding my breath: Between Trump's brain-dead "America first" jingoism and his enlistment of a crank as the head of HHS, I have a hard time seeing common sense prevail here.

How many more own-goals will it take for sensible Republicans to see that they need to form a new team?

-- CAV