Posted on 05/18/2018 11:31:53 AM PDT by ethom
Trump is draining the swamp —Rebuilding government may be impossible
In the 2013 novel “A Delicate Truth,” John le Carré presents the “deep state” as a moneyed, cultured élite — the “non-governmental insiders from banking, industry, and commerce” whose access to information allows them to rule in secret. Trump’s conception is quite different. A real-estate baron, Trump is at war with the clerks — the apparatchiks who, he claims, are seeking to nullify the election by denying the prerogatives of his Administration.
This attack on “bureaucracy” is really an attack on the State Department, the intelligence community and ordinary bureaucrats who enforce regulations and monitor compliance with the law. Even the usual suspects at the conservative think tanks who usually have the inside track on jobs in a new Republican administration have been shut out.
Many people claim that underneath the bluster, Donald Trump is just another Republican who likes to use Twitter. But while he was made possible by the modern conservative movement and a political system that enabled such a man to become president, he is nonetheless unique. This evisceration of federal government institutions is nothing we’ve ever seen before.
The story about the elimination of experts and the deliberate erasure of institutional memory in department after department is chilling. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace these people even after Trump is gone. His lasting legacy may be the destruction of the federal government as we know it.
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We will know we are getting there when property values in the DC area start plunging while they are rising almost everywhere else.
The premise is flawed
The government is not destroyed. The government is being freed of pernicious lradical left wing excess.
The problem is that the offensive pernicious left wingers are still around
Good!
"Tear it all down, man!"
Rebuilding May be Impossible
Can I have a "hallelujah"?
Is she any relation to Dolly?
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