"We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition"
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The subtext is where the line does its real work. “Less onerous, less involved in… basically every item of our lives” paints the federal government as an omnipresent meddler, collapsing everything from health care to environmental rules into a single, suffocating intrusion. It’s a libertarian mood board, not a policy argument, and that’s the point: the emotional target is fatigue and resentment, not legislative specifics.
Then comes the tell: “there does have to be some transition.” That one word quietly concedes that “back” isn’t actually back. It’s forward into disruption: programs scaled down, agencies hollowed out, protections rewired. “Transition” functions as preemptive damage control, acknowledging pain without naming who pays it. In context, it’s classic anti-Washington populism sharpened into constitutional rhetoric: the campaign pitch that shrinking government is not a choice but a restoration of moral order.
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Miller, Joe. (2026, January 17). We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-just-simply-want-to-get-back-to-basics-get--62537/
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Miller, Joe. "We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-just-simply-want-to-get-back-to-basics-get--62537/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-just-simply-want-to-get-back-to-basics-get--62537/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
