What we’re witnessing in the era of DOGE is completely unprecedented in human history.

Never before has a populace been able to seize its overtly corrupt government so peacefully and go on to perform such a public vivisection to expose the rotting regime’s putrid, necrotic tissue.

It’s a moment to be relished and understood. No other people in history have been able to assume command from corrupt rulers – again, peacefully, via an election – and have the added privilege of purging the regime’s bowels of fraud, waste and abuse of power in such a public way.

Democrats who are doing their best to block the work of the Department of Government Efficiency are on the wrong side of history – even their own.

Indeed, immediately upon seizing power in 1993, and with much fanfare, the Democrat Clinton/Gore administration promised to do exactly what Democrats today are so adamantly trying to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk from doing: tunnel into the dark recesses of a bloated federal government and perform a much-needed liposuction.

As Jesse Watters reminded us last week, Bill Clinton axed 400,000 federal jobs upon taking office.

“And Al Gore was the executioner,” Watters wryly notes.

After a six-month “National Performance Review,” Gore stood on the south lawn of the White House that year, flanked by forklifts “piled high with bound volumes of government regulations,” reported the Los Angeles Times, and released a “reinventing government” report, affectionately nicknamed REGO.

“This report,” Gore boldly proclaimed, “tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamline the bureaucracy, change procurement rules, change the personnel rules, and create a government that works better and costs less.”

The new vice president even touted REGO on The Late Show with David Letterman, who jokingly asked him, “So, have you fixed the government?”

“It certainly needs it,” Gore replied.

At the release of his report on cutting bureaucracy, Gore promised to cut hundreds of thousands of jobs, consolidate duplicate federal agencies and reform how the government buys things, quipping that the bureaucracy was a “quill pen” in the age of word processing.

“Gore aides conceded that many of his proposals to change that situation have been put forward before, only to be rejected by Congress,” The L.A. Times reported in September 1993. 

“But ‘there are some moments in history when it is possible to do this,’ said David Osborne, the report’s [principal] author. ‘This is going to be a long, tough slog,’ but popular anger at government waste, the political force represented by Ross Perot and the pressure to reduce spending have combined to change the political dynamics that blocked earlier reform efforts, he said.

“Osborne may be right. At least initially, Gore’s proposals drew support from a wide range of Washington interests that usually are at each other’s throat – from government workers’ unions to Republican members of Congress.”

It’s amazing, the power of having a “D” after your name gets you.

The L.A. Times – which today is breathlessly reporting on efforts to block the Trump/Musk fraud and waste cutting, rather than on the staggering waste and fraud itself – noted in a headline on the similar Clinton/Gore effort, “The plan to save $108 billion draws wide support.”

Well, so does the Trump cutting: A CBS News/YouGov Poll says 70% think Trump is merely following through on his campaign promises, and a majority are fine with Musk helping find waste, fraud and abuse in the budget.

But you wouldn’t know it from today’s statist Democrats and their joined-at-the-lip dried-up legacy media, who have portrayed Trump’s efforts to shave the federal bureaucracy as an attack on democracy itself.

Did Clinton and Gore mean what they said about cutting government? If they did, they certainly weren’t all that committed to it. By spring 1994 – before the Republican Revolution that year forced the administration to live up to its words – Reason magazine noted, “a lean, streamlined federal government is not in this administration’s plans.”

That, and the obvious corruption Trump inherited, makes DOGE — which is actually doing what Clinton and Gore promised to do — unprecedented.

Today’s Democrats are infinitely less interested in, and in fact are outright hostile to, an efficient government.

As such they’re not only on the wrong side of their own history, but, at this pivotal moment in self-governance, they’re on the wrong side of thousands of years of human history.

You can’t get more wrong than that.