C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
“Government agencies with staff who are recruited by merit play a vital role ensuring the safety of our food, air and water; maintaining the value of our currency; resolving legal disputes peacefully; and defending our national security. We rarely pay attention to the everyday work of government bureaucrats, but without them, we would be in grave danger.
When Mr. Trump and his cronies declare that they will destroy the deep state, it’s really the modern state — the state that supports the foundations of both public and private life — that they have in mind.
Once we view the matter from this perspective, it’s much easier to understand why Mr. Trump invited Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to drastically downsize the American state. In reality, though, government will not be downsized; it will be repurposed. Like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr. Trump aims not to streamline modern state bureaucracies, but rather to replace them with a much older form of rule based on personal loyalty to the ruler.”
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This will be the Trump ‘administration,’ staffed with incompetents and cronies who have contempt for sound, responsible governance – loyal to only to Trump, not the Constitution, not the rule of law, and not the American people.
When Mr. Trump and his cronies declare that they will destroy the deep state, it’s really the modern state — the state that supports the foundations of both public and private life — that they have in mind.
Once we view the matter from this perspective, it’s much easier to understand why Mr. Trump invited Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to drastically downsize the American state. In reality, though, government will not be downsized; it will be repurposed. Like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr. Trump aims not to streamline modern state bureaucracies, but rather to replace them with a much older form of rule based on personal loyalty to the ruler.”
Opinion | Trump Is Dismantling the Systems That Keep Us Safe. All Americans Will Suffer.
Eviscerating modern state institutions almost always clears a path for a different political order, built on loyalties and connections to the ruler.
This will be the Trump ‘administration,’ staffed with incompetents and cronies who have contempt for sound, responsible governance – loyal to only to Trump, not the Constitution, not the rule of law, and not the American people.
