{"id":1927603,"date":"2023-05-09T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-interior-secretary-the-monstrous-administrative-state-killing-self-government-must-be-stopped\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T20:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:32:02","slug":"trump-interior-secretary-the-monstrous-administrative-state-killing-self-government-must-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-interior-secretary-the-monstrous-administrative-state-killing-self-government-must-be-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Interior Secretary wants to stop the monstrous administrative state from killing self-government."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ftrump-interior-secretary-the-monstrous-administrative-state-killing-self-government-must-be-stopped%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=1927603&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--><h2>A Former Trump Official Lifts the Curtain on the Bureaucratic Leviathan<\/h2>\n<h3>Exposing the Swamp-Style Tactics of the Administrative State<\/h3>\n<p>A new book out Tuesday, written by former Trump Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, offers a firsthand account of the bureaucratic leviathan that has become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/too-good-to-be-true-the-virtues-and-vices-of-common-good-constitutionalism\/\" title=\"Too Good to Be True: The Virtues and Vices of Common-Good Constitutionalism\">modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governor-after-censure-vote-state-party-should-focus-on-winning-races\/\" title=\"Arizona Governor After Censure Vote: State Party Should \u2018Focus On Winning Races\u2019\">administrative state<\/a><\/a>. Titled <i>You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State<\/i>, the book is both an expose of the swamp-style tactics leveraged to stifle the agenda of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrat-suggests-stripping-catholic-church-of-tax-exempt-status-if-biden-denied-communion\/\" title=\"House Democrat Suggests Stripping Catholic Church Of Tax-Exempt Status If Biden Denied Communion\">democratically elected leaders<\/a> and a guide to confront the weaponization of the federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<h3>The Administrative State Subverting the Will of American Voters<\/h3>\n<p>In a Monday interview with The Federalist, Bernhardt pointed to the \u201clionization\u201d of \u201cthe resistance\u201d within federal agencies following the triumphant 2016 election of President Donald Trump as an inflection point in the administrative state subverting the will of American voters. Bernhardt warns that if the percentage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-interior-secretary-the-monstrous-administrative-state-killing-self-government-must-be-stopped\/\" title=\"Trump's Interior Secretary wants to stop the monstrous administrative state from killing self-government.\">civil service employees actively resisting<\/a> the elected administration continues to grow, it could have dire consequences for representative democracy and government.<\/p>\n<h3>Manipulating Bureaucratic Processes to Hamper White House Priorities<\/h3>\n<p>Bernhardt&#8217;s book examines how employees across federal agencies have learned to manipulate bureaucratic processes to hamper White House priorities that run counter to their ideologies. From turning in products rendered unusable to outright delaying the completion of projects deemed important by the elected administration, employees exploit protections as federal bureaucrats to \u201cresist\u201d presidential directives.<\/p>\n<h3>A Mandate for Bureaucratic Reform<\/h3>\n<p>Bernhardt\u2019s book offers not just a warrant but a mandate for bureaucratic reform to be a top priority for the next Republican president. The delay in implementing reforms during the Trump administration gave the president\u2019s antagonists years of experience in hampering administrative priorities. Bernhardt warns that the resistance to the next Republican president\u2019s policies will be even worse from the standpoint of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/devin-nunes-blasts-nsa-director-paul-nakasone-over-political-targeting-of-former-trump-official-michael-ellis\/\" title=\"Devin Nunes Blasts NSA Director Paul Nakasone over Political Targeting of Former Trump Official Michael Ellis\">career civil service<\/a>, the nongovernmental organizations, and the radical left.<\/p>\n<h3>A Must-Read for Anyone Wishing to Understand the True Scale of the Administrative State<\/h3>\n<p>Bernhardt\u2019s book is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand the true scale of the administrative state, especially for those hoping for a political appointment. It offers a sobering account of the extent to which unelected ideologues are able to hijack democracy to substitute presidential policy with their own agendas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness.<\/li>\n<li>Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/newsletter\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book out Tuesday lifts the curtain on what the modern administrative state has become: a bureaucratic leviathan undermining representative systems of government \u2014 and it needs to be reined in. After a long career in civil service that includes stints under the last two Republican presidents, former Trump Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1927604,"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":[17391,8674,4992,26286,3779,21626,3794],"class_list":["post-1927603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-administrative","tag-interior","tag-killing","tag-monstrous","tag-secretary","tag-self-government","tag-trumps"],"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\/1927603","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}