{"id":1806775,"date":"2023-01-16T07:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806775"},"modified":"2023-01-16T07:05:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:05:37","slug":"republicans-are-failing-unless-they-are-disrupting-discrediting-and-destroying-the-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-are-failing-unless-they-are-disrupting-discrediting-and-destroying-the-bureaucracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Are Failing Unless They Are Disrupting, Discrediting, And Destroying The Bureaucracy"},"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%2Frepublicans-are-failing-unless-they-are-disrupting-discrediting-and-destroying-the-bureaucracy%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=1806775&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-->\n<p><em>Editorial Note: This article is a lightly edited transcript of Theodore Wold\u2019s remarks at the Claremont Institute post-midterms event, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kaSRw9QqHZc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Should The GOP Do Now?<\/a>\u201d It is published with Claremont\u2019s permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am from the West, and love folk tales. I&#8217;d like to begin with a folk story. <\/p>\n<p>A presidential candidate had a somewhat uncertain policy agenda. His supporters claimed he wanted to reform Washington. Detractors claimed that he was really seeking revenge. This candidate also accused his rivals of fraud and stealing elections during his presidential campaign. On the campaign trail, the candidate for the presidency was well-known for claiming that he would initiate these broad reforms in Washington. He\u2019s gonna either throw people in jail or he was going to kick all the b-st-rds out.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to take out high-ranking officials for their public corruption and malfeasance as well as for their arrogant disregard for law and order. Now, unfortunately, haste and probably some na\u00efvet\u00e9 about the real Washington confused his purpose in the main, and, depending on who you ask, he left the civil service stronger and more powerful than it was before he even started his campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Gen. Jackson was correct to confront the civil services. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/01\/25\/rediscovering-the-virtues-of-andrew-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gen. Jackson<\/a> Gen. Jackson was correct to state that he was going after Washington bureaucrats. Gen. Jackson probably had the right idea to accuse John Quincy Adams, who was accused of playing with elections.<\/p>\n<p>But I think, as is often the case with conservative attempts at reforming Washington, Gen. Jackson\u2019s ideal was right but the execution was lacking. Gen. Jackson\u2019s idea was essentially an attempt to make the implicit link between electoral politics and the governance of the regime explicit.<\/p>\n<p> Making the Bureaucracy More Responsive to Voters <\/p>\n<p>The general said it at several points: \u201cYou can\u2019t keep a political organization together without patronage. The loyalty of those who fought with you in a campaign, your supporters who bled for you \u2026 they surprisingly expect to actually participate in governance if you\u2019re successful and they want to be rewarded for that. What better way to affirm the support and loyalty of your team than make them the postmaster in Lewiston, Maine?\u201d Most historians will agree that Jackson was executed in error.<\/p>\n<p>For well over a century, we\u2019ve all been told the progressives\u2019 folk tale about the Jacksonian revolution: that he didn\u2019t really get rid of any of the bureaucracy, but what he did do was he brought in a rabble, and created the spoils system. This story tells that the nation is held captive by the crooks and cronies until the heroes arrive. The Pendleton Act was passed when progressives ransom democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The Pendleton Act (and all of its progeny that follow up through Jimmy Carter\u2019s 1978 civil service reform), had essentially one goal, which was to insulate the civil bureaucracy from political<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no new ideas on our side about ensuring that the political appointees are actually accountable to the chief executive they report to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1673,"featured_media":1806778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[15016,15015,15017,15014,3766,6919,3756],"class_list":["post-1806775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bureaucracy","tag-destroying","tag-discrediting","tag-disrupting","tag-failing","tag-federalist","tag-republicans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806775","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\/1673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}