by Eric Peters
The time to fight hardest is when you’re winning. When the enemy is wobbly, that’s when you land the haymaker that puts him down for the count. That’s when you end him, if he’s an enemy bent on ending you.
That moment is right now – as regards the federal regulatory apparat, which is the enemy of everything America used to be about. This used to be a pretty free country before the apparat took over. It isn’t very free anymore, chiefly because of the apparat – which is almost omnipotent and insufferably arrogant on account of being unaccountable to any power other than itself.
The smugly smirking face of little Pete Buttigieg – the former head of the apparat styled Department of Transportation – and of Michael “Red Guard” Regan, the former head of the apparat styled Environmental Protection Agency – are avatars of the apparats.
But they are gone now. And nature abhors a vacuum.
What if a major car company – all it would take is one – announced: We’re going to build and offer for sale the kinds of cars and trucks our buyers want.
And then did exactly that.
Toyota, for instance, could start selling its little HilLux Champ – which it’s already building, so it’s not some pie-in-the-sky thing. This truck – which sells for $13,000 in other countries – could just as easily be sold here. All it would take is for Toyota to say: We’re selling it here. Dealers are taking orders now.
And then dare the apparat to try to stop them from selling what tens of thousands of Americans (probably low-balling it) would line up around the block to buy. It would not be a good look. It would put apparat-defenders in the position of defending what has become indefensible.
See USAID.
Another one is the 2025 Suzuki Jimny Nomade – which is a real SUV with 4WD (not AWD) and a manual transmission that you could buy for $17,000 – if you didn’t live here. Because the apparat says it’s not “safe” – which only means it is not compliant with the latest laundry list of apparat (DOT, NHTSA) “safety” requirements. These have as much to do with whether a vehicle is safe to drive as whether it’s safe to swim if you know how to. The Jimny and the HiLux Champ and dozens of other such vehicles being manufactured right now that cannot legally be sold here, right now are like that.
In that if you know how to drive, they are not dangerous to drive.
This “safety” business plays on a certain segment of the population’s neurotic aversion to the slightest risk by equating the latter with dangerousness. It’s something that used to only afflict a few obvious defectives such as Ralph Nader and acolytes of his such as Joan Claybrook and Elizabeth Dole. Over the course of the past 50 years, these outliers managed to impose their neurosis on a whole country – via the apparat.
We went from having Volvos – to every car having to be a Volvo.
Put another way, after 50 years of Safetyism, Americans are no longer free to decide for themselves whether “safety” matters more than everything else. The apparat decreed “safety” – as defined by the apparatchiks – comes first! 
This has cost us dearly – literally as well as figuratively. Instead of $13k pickups like the HilLux, we’re allowed to buy $30k pickups that are “safe,” according to the apparat – because they have six or more air bags and have automated braking “technology” and speed limit “assistance,” among other things.
“Safety” is the obsession of mentally unwell people, many of whom are apparatchiks. The same type who insisted on “locking down” the entire population out of their overwrought dread of a bad cold. It is embodied in the mantra, if it saves even one life – no matter the cost, which is the part that’s never said out loud. It would save millions of lives if no one left the safety of their bed for the next 20 years. More aptly, the safety of a baby’s crib.
But is that how we want live?
And what about the cost? Let’s have a closer look at that.
The closet thing you can legally get to the Suzuki Jimny you’re not allowed to buy in this country is an apparat-approved 2025 Jeep Wrangler. It costs $32,095 to start or not far from twice as much as a new Jimny costs.
It’s the same as regards trucks.
There is nothing apparat-approved that’s comparable to the HiLux Champ because the apparat has made it impossible to legally sell basic, compact-sized trucks without six air bags (but with small diesel engines paired with manual transmissions) in the land of the formerly free. The least expensive apparat-approved trucks are models like the 2025 Ford Ranger ($32,980 to start) and Chevy Colorado ($31,900) Nissan Frontier ($32,050) and Toyota’s own apparat-approved Tacoma ($31,590) which now comes standard with a turbo four and an automatic and is no longer available with a V6.
Because the apparat says it used “too much” gas. And “emitted” too much of the gas that has nothing to do with pollution. Because the apparat screeches that the “climate” is “changing.”
One could buy a HilLux and a Jimny for less than it costs to buy any one of the apparat-approved vehicles pickups mentioned above. And they are just two of many inexpensive alternatives to apparat-approved vehicles that Americans could buy this year, if their manufacturers decided to flip the apparat the bird and just began taking orders
This would have been almost suicidally brave just a few months ago, given the Biden Thing – and the prospect of the Harris-Walz things. But everything is different all of a sudden. The manufacturers have a golden opportunity to seize the day. They have in Donald Trump an ally who would probably side with them against the apparat. He has already made his contempt for apparatchiks plain and – far more important – he has acted against the apparatchiks.
Trump knows the American people – the rank and file real people of this country, not the people who live inside the DC Beltway or in the gated communities just outside San Francisco – are sick to death of the apparats and the apparatchiks. They know it’s not about “safety” – or “clean air” – anymore than “masking” was ever about “stopping the spread.”
They’ve had it – with all of it – and they voted for the man who is doing something about it.
Now is the time to strike. Hard. Without apology. And to dare the bastards to do anything about it.
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