The 'Meritocracy' Lie

Reason ^ | 3.28.2025 | Eric Boehm

[nickcarraway]

I think this guy has some confusion. I don't see Press Secretary as a government job. If Vance hires someone bad in this job, it hurts him and Trump, not the government. Not sure why Vance would hire the son of someone who admitted he hated Trump, but maybe he's not holding this against the son.

[TStro]

Trump learned in his first term to put people around him that he can trust

[Governor Dinwiddie]

J.D. Vance can hire who he wants for his press secretary.
That golliwog who worked for Biden wasn't just some random person off the street.

[cuz1961]

this whole screed is and .

[Fledermaus]

Reason can be unreasonable.

[Old West Conservative]

Who needs Dummy Underground when Free Republic posts tons of hateful articles like this one towards Trump, Bondi and Patel every hour on the hour!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Like me guess, Eric is oh so annoyed that he did not get a job offer.

Probably because Eric is a dunderhead that thinks guests in your home who to pee on the carpet and call the children of the house bastards is just oh so sweet and lovely. In other words Eric is a wimpy girly man who lacks any sort of merit.

Eric can stuff it.

[MrRelevant]

This guy doesnt seem to have a grasp on the big picture. Perception IS reality… these are really his enemies….and he will use leverage to get what he wants. He didnt make the rules but he knows them now.

[Navy Patriot]

...what Trump has done over these first two months seems to be a long, long way from restoring meritocracy to the federal government or society at large.

Yet President Trump HAS done numerous things that have removed DEI Obstruction from the preexisting generally merit based system, while Reason and Eric Boehm have done NOTHING but carp and whine that it's President Trump that's doing it rather than them.

They are all Horse Manure and No Results.

[budj]

Maybe the author has a burr in his saddle against Tucker. His kid has worked in DC since 2019 for GOPers and as communications director. He has a resume for this job. Sounds like a BS gripe.

[MortMan]

"There is no administration in the world—beyond this one—where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere," is how Politico summed it up on Thursday.

Apparently the author, and Politico, missed the entire Biden regime tenure.

[SPDSHDW]

Notice a distinct lack of Jared and Ivanka.

[SoConPubbie]

Nick,

Do you purposefully go out of your way to try and and find articles that are unflattering of President Trump or just this just happen by happenstance?

[Palio di Siena]

WTAF is Eric boehm

[nickcarraway]

Really? It seemed like the opposite.

[ComputerGuy]

Pointless drivel.

[SoConPubbie]

Really? It seemed like the opposite.Nick,

Are you being led around by your nose by the extreme left or are you actualy a Democrat?

[nuconvert]

Where’s my tiny violin?

[Flaming Conservative]

What??? The Trump administration isn’t doing things exactly the way Reason wants him to? Eric Boehm didn’t get nominated for anything? Oh noes!
I, for one, am very happy with the Trump administration. They have done more good and gotten rid of some really bad stuff more than any other administration of the modern age. God bless President Trump and his entire administration! And good for Buckley Tucker!

[ProgressingAmerica]

"I don't see Press Secretary as a government job."

What is the way to prove that Press Secretary is a private sector job?

Who is the CEO of the company that the Press Secretary is employed by?