- The pandemic response is cast as a historic abuse of power that wrecks schooling, crushes businesses, censors dissent, and leaves lasting damage on an entire generation. - The Pentagon is now staring down a real audit, turning a protected institution into the next target for fraud hunters instead of the next untouchable bureaucracy. - New York and Maryland are used as case studies in Democratic collapse, where ballooning budgets, failing services, and middle-class flight expose the cost of endless misrule.