Why America Needs Outsiders in Office: What the Founding Fathers Would Think of Trump, Elon, and Bureaucracy Gone Wild

When I think about the men who founded America—rough-and-tumble characters who peed standing up and would have also picked up a rifle to defend their patch of dirt against the red coats—I imagine them squirming in their graves at most of the spineless career politicians and government waste haunting Capitol Hill today.

George Washington didn’t serve eight years of ass-kissing in the local D.C. scene to climb a political ladder.

Jefferson? Adams? Hell, they were citizen-soldiers and thinkers.

The Founders envisioned a republic where average citizens would take a short break from their regular lives to serve the country and return to their farms, shops, or blacksmiths’ anvils.

They never wanted career politicians bent over, trading favors for a chance to sit higher up the totem pole.

But here we are, drowning in a swamp of professional bureaucrats so deeply embedded in their posts you’d need a pry bar to dislodge them and I hope that’s what Elon will do, take a pry bar to all of the sewer barnacles in DC.

I am glad Trump is giving the political elite in DC the Rock’s “People’s Elbow” in 2025.

Trump, Elon, and the Fear of the Citizen Outsider

Say what you will about Donald Trump and Elon Musk—and trust me, people have plenty to say—but their entry into public life shook up the stale, smoke-filled rooms of Washington, D.C., where trading influence is the game, and loyalty to anything but the system is rare.

Trump didn’t “climb the ranks”; he bulldozed his way in with sledgehammer politics and a wrecking ball, while Musk has been setting government institutions ablaze with his own brand of private-sector accountability. He single-handedly put America back in the space race after billions were paid to Russia to send America’s astronauts into space.

Sure, it’s not all roses—Trump’s style and Musk’s unchecked X outbursts have caused their fair share of indigestion. But, when you think about it, this shake-up is what the Founding Fathers had in mind: citizens serving their country, not insiders chasing self-serving careers in politics.

Most of D.C. would prefer to keep things predictable House of Cards style.

When you’re invested in “the way things are done,” the last thing you want is some outsider crashing the party. And that’s why so many in the government are shaking in their designer loafers and feeding the New York Times anything they can dish up on Trump.

Most of these career politicians and bureaucrats would rather deal with a lifetime swamp dweller than a disruptor who isn’t afraid to gut an overblown budget or expose their cozy agreements.

Trump and Musk represent a massive, neon-lit threat to the norm—and for a damn good reason.

Why I support the new DOGE & The Top 10 Absurdities Funded by Your Tax Dollars

It’s time we talk about outrageous government spending, because this is where things get spicy. Americans are paying way too much for healthcare, college education and basic living expenses.

You think your tax dollars are funding highways and public schools? Think again. Our hard earned money is being thrown into some truly spectacularly wasteful projects.

Here’s a list that’ll make you grind your teeth PTSD style.

1. $20 Million for a “War on Horned Lizards” – The U.S. spent millions on “conservation studies” for horned lizards. Important? Maybe. Essential? You tell me.
2. State Department Grants for Transgender Shows in Ecuador – Yep, $20,000 went to fund “drag and transgender shows” in Ecuador. Somehow, this made it onto the State Department’s agenda for cultural outreach. Are you F’ng kidding me?
3. Studying the Romance Habits of Quails on Cocaine – Not kidding; taxpayers coughed up hundreds of thousands to see how quails get on while under the influence. Science? Sure. Relevant? Debatable.
4. A Study on the Emotional Impact of Having Your Dog Look at You – Apparently, your tax dollars have been used to explore how we feel when our dogs gaze into our eyes. Real men know that a dog is man’s best friend and don’t need a freaking study to understand this.
5. $500,000 to Teach Fish How to Avoid Fishing Nets – Fish aren’t so bright, but the government thought half a million dollars could help them figure out how to dodge nets. Spoiler: the fish didn’t learn.
6. National Science Foundation’s “Are Hunger Games Real?” Survey – Tens of thousands were spent on a study asking if the “Hunger Games” could actually happen. Only in America folks.
7. $700,000 on Studying Cow Flatulence – Cows produce methane. We know. But let’s go ahead and throw nearly a million dollars at it, just to be sure.
8. A Million Dollars on Weight-Loss Programs for Truckers – The government thought it was a good idea to allocate a million bucks for weight-loss programs targeting long-haul truck drivers. (Didn’t we already figure this out with exercise and broccoli?)
9. Building a Luxury Jail in Afghanistan – When it was decided Afghanistan needed a new jail, we dropped tens of millions to make it luxurious. I don’t even want to think about what this means for NAMBLA Taliban visitation rights. Not your average chain-link fence.
10. NASA’s Zero-Gravity Coffee Machine – Yes, NASA spent a pretty penny figuring out how astronauts can sip coffee while floating. A noble cause, but maybe the priority list got scrambled somewhere.

Cutting the Fat for a Better America

This election has shown the current administration and media elite that people get fired up about “outsiders” like Trump and Musk for a reason.

They’re disruptors, and Washington could use more of them.

America was built by citizens, not career politicians, and our democracy needs that energy again.

We need more “citizen outsiders” in leadership roles, people who aren’t afraid to make the tough calls to cut the fat and reinvest in priorities that actually benefit this country.

When real people step up to serve, it creates the kind of America we can all be proud of: lean, strong, and focused on the needs of the people, not the wants of the bureaucracy.

If we want to reclaim the vision of the Founding Fathers—a government by and for the people—we need more citizen leaders who don’t fear the swamp but are willing to drain it.