The MAGA Movement Has Become a Problem for Trump

The New York Times ^ | Sept. 22, 2024 | Ezra Klein

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In 2024, the deep state that defeats Donald Trump might be his own.

That, after all, is what Project 2025 was actually meant to be. The 900-page tome that Democrats hoist in front of the cameras is a festival of policy options, detailed down to the sub-agency level. But options for whom? Not for Trump himself. Even the most wonkish of presidents can only engage on a small fraction of what the executive branch does. And Donald Trump was not the most wonkish of presidents. When he said, during his debate with Kamala Harris, that he hadn’t read Project 2025 and has no intention of doing so, I believed him.

But Project 2025 — and much else like it that has gotten less press — is more than a compendium of policy proposals: It is an effort to build a deep state of Trump’s own. The presidency is not one man, Diet Coke in hand, Fox & Friends on TV, barking orders. It’s 4,000-or-so political appointees — nearer to 50,000 if Trump again uses Schedule F powers to strip civil-service protections from vast swaths of the federal government — trying to do what they think the president wants them to do or what they think needs to be done. They do that by setting policy for the more than two million civilian employees of the federal government and by writing regulations that the rest of society must follow.

Veterans of Trump’s administration believe personnel was their biggest problem. They could not act ambitiously or swiftly enough because they were at constant war with the government they, in theory, controlled.

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Only The New York Times could come up with such an incredibly farcical headline as “The MAGA Movement Has Become a Problem for Trump”!!

[BatGuano]

I did not waste the time reading the piece.
If it is “NYT,” it is fiction not worthy of the time to read.
The “Gray Lady,” has a crotch full of sores and worts. Not a dog on the street would eat the green meat that hangs in festoons from her drawers.

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I did not waste the time reading the piece.

But you did have time to drop by and notify us. Very thoughtful of you.

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Commercials that I see are Trump is going to give tax cuts to billionaires and he banned abortions in a cases. That’s what they got.

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Ezra Klein: “ The Constitution is like over 100 years o

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BWAHAHAHAHAHA! OH MY SIDES......

WHAT A MAROON.

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