[Billthedrill]

As a self-proclaimed scholar of the field Ben might be well advised to crack a few more books. The cold truth is that "competent technocracy" and Kamala Harris don't belong in the same sentence and substitution of her name for any of the other gobbling drones on the Left won't help his theory any. If that's what the Dems actually were trying to achieve they missed by a country mile.

Established governments grow corruption like old ship hulls grow barnacles, and if the ones entrusted with hull maintenance can't or won't scrape it, the owners will. And corruption is very much an issue with the government of the United States in its present form. Nor is it restricted to any one political party. A very great deal of public money is ending up in the pockets of a very few under the guise of war, social justice, and any other scam a very creative criminal class has devised. And what Rhodes considers competent technocrats turns out to be just one more mask worn by that criminal class. We can do this the hard way or the harder one, there is no easy way, but it's going to be done.

[cgbg]

Good post.

In addition DEI has turned the “technocrats” into blithering idiots.

It is not just the political appointees—many folks in the Senior Executive Service are just incompetent and cannot execute even the most basic tasks.