VDH is asking rhetorical questions, and you can learn plenty from them.
By asking rhetorically who is making all these decisions that are terrible for Americans - he is making the point that in a self-governing Republic, We the People are supposed to be making the decisions.
If we have to ask who decides things - obviously it’s not us!
There is a joke con artists tell each other: If you walk into a room and you have to ask who the mark is….it’s probably you.
I think this is what VDH is saying: There has been a coup. We the People are no longer the decision makers. The political class has surrounded itself with a permanent bureaucracy - an unelected administrative state - that is completely unaccountable to the voting public.
We don’t even get asked what we think about opening the borders, sending money to Ukraine, debasing the currency, Covid mandates. Decisions get made and we learn about them after the fact - if at all.
I know it’s rhetoric but as a FReeper none of this new to me. My problem I guess and I hope the VDH column does wake up some people.