{"id":1590312,"date":"2022-08-05T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590312"},"modified":"2022-08-05T07:46:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T11:46:46","slug":"a-bureaucratic-swamp-shakedown-is-trumps-strongest-case-for-a-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-bureaucratic-swamp-shakedown-is-trumps-strongest-case-for-a-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bureaucratic Swamp Shakedown Is Trump\u2019s Strongest Case For A Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-bureaucratic-swamp-shakedown-is-trumps-strongest-case-for-a-second-term%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>I\u2019m sure it wasn\u2019t his intent to make a pretty convincing case in favor of a second term for President Trump, but that\u2019s more or less what New York Times columnist Thomas Edsall just did.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, no one knows if Trump really plans on a third campaign, but he undoubtedly sees the same wide opening for him that everyone in the national media can see (otherwise they wouldn\u2019t still be talking about him). And that opening exists not just because Joe Biden and the Democrat-led Congress have turned this country into slums and made everything ghetto, but also because Trump has used his time out of office wisely, creating a political infrastructure that, if elected, would allow him to efficiently implement personnel and policy to revolutionize the federal bureaucracy that was so successful in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/10\/04\/president-trump-is-absolutely-right-to-assume-federal-agencies-are-against-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crushing and stalling<\/a> vast portions of his 2016 agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe architects of one of the most radical of Trump\u2019s proposals have described it as \u2018the constitutional option,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/03\/opinion\/trump-has-big-plans-for-2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> Edsall. \u201cIt would provide for the wholesale politicization of the elite levels of the Civil Service through the creation of a new \u2018Schedule F\u2019 classification, allowing the president to hire and fire at will thousands of government employees \u2018in positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating character.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good to me. Though Edsall is woefully naive (or dishonest) in asserting that such reforms would result in a \u201cwholesale politicization\u201d of government workers, as if they currently start each day reciting the American pledge and make every decision based on their deep well of Constitutional knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201ccivil servants\u201d who make up the various executive agencies \u2014 Transportation, Education, Homeland Security, Justice, etc. \u2014 are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/02\/06\/firing-sally-yates-beginning-trumps-war-bureaucracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no different<\/a> than the people you come into contact with at the DMV or Employment Office. The same is true for federal contractors. They\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/family-guy-peter-griffin-nails-sass-sassy-gif-4427236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lazy, obdurate, unhelpful<\/a>, and \u2014 worst of all, as we saw from 2017 to 2021 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/11\/01\/donald-trump-versus-the-interagency-consensus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hostile to meaningful change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the fact that staffing those agencies and awarding government contracts comes with all kinds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/725259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">affirmative action requirements<\/a> and that the main pool of candidates is all Washington, D.C.-area residents (Democrat voters) compounds the problem by a thousand.<\/p>\n<p>To top it off, firing any one of them for incompetence or insubordination is <a href=\"https:\/\/work.chron.com\/can-fired-civil-service-jobs-19492.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">next to impossible<\/a>.  That Trump would do God\u2019s work in dismantling the entire rancid bureaucracy to replace it with something responsive and productive (imagine!) is not an idea that\u2019s going to scare voters. This is why Edsall consulted some Harvard professor to hysterically claim that the aim of Trump\u2019s change is \u201cexerting domination and using the government apparatus to reward loyalists and punish perceived opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe the point is to prevent unelected government workers from derailing the president\u2019s policy agenda, as they did \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/29\/new-york-times-miles-taylor-op-ed-shows-everything-wrong-with-anonymous-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they admitted it<\/a> \u2014 time and time again during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>If the president, whoever it is, wins office on certain promises, it shouldn\u2019t inspire a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington to see it as their mission to bog down the fulfillment of that agenda because they personally oppose it. That\u2019s the system we have right now, and it\u2019s been proven corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>It would certainly be radical for Trump to win a second term and successfully implement all or even just part of his plan. That\u2019s bad for the permanent bureaucracy (Democrats) but very good for American democracy. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-comments mt-30 mt-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-comments-container d-flex flex-column align-items-center py-30\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fdrlst-mark.svg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-20\" alt=\"The Federalist logo eagle mark\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p>Unlock commenting by joining the Federalist Community.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/plans\/pricing\/\" class=\"btn btn-on-white\">Subscribe<\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sure it wasn\u2019t his intent to make a pretty convincing case in favor of a second term for President Trump, but that\u2019s more or less what New York Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}