Even if you agree with the problems it identifies, the remedy is scary!
If you haven’t had a chance to peruse Project 2025, I don’t blame you. The document is almost 900 pages long. But by all means take a look at what the next “conservative” administration will look like. The former president disavows any knowledge of this “mandate for leadership”, and yet a great many of the document authors are either Trump campaign staff or were members of the former president’s administration. In short, the document describes the evil motivations of the one-half of U.S. citizens that may not fully support “the conservative promise” and provides a lengthy description of how the U.S. can get back on the right track. Step one, define the problem:
The long march of cultural Marxism through our institutions has come to pass. The federal government is a behemoth, weaponized against American citizens and conservative values, with freedom and liberty under siege as never before.1
How can the U.S. withstand this siege of cultural Marxism permeating our government institutions? This behemoth weaponized against American citizens? How will the Mandate for Leadership survive to be implemented on “day one” of the next conservative administration?
In order to carry out the President’s desires, political appointees must be given the tools, knowledge, and support to overcome the federal government’s obstructionist Human Resources departments. More fundamentally, the new Administration must fill its ranks with political appointees.2
Project 2025 is more than 50 (and growing) of the nation’s leading conservative organizations joining forces to prepare and seize the day. The axiom goes “personnel is policy,” and we need a new generation of Americans to answer the call and come to serve. This book is functionally an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.3
Yep, those federal workers who are responsible for processing your Medicare payments, insuring the safety of your food and water supplies, responding to wildfires and floods – in other words the “deep state” will find itself either demoted or standing in line at the unemployment office. Meanwhile, Mr. Mrs. and Ms. Smith will be “aligned, vetted and trained” to take over the administrative state. (P.S. don’t count on those unemployment benefits showing up anytime soon former federal employees– it will take some time for the Smith’s to get up to speed.)
So, day one the U.S. unemployment rate goes up. At least we got rid of the deep state! And why should we care about these newly unemployed bureaucrats? Sure, these bureaucrats know how to do things, and we like people who do things – like paying our troops and making sure that our water is safe to drink, but someone has to drain the swamp. (On day two are the Smith’s aligned? Well, they still need to be vetted, trained and prepared.)
[T]he Trump Administration issued Executive Order 1395724 to make career professionals in positions that are not normally subject to change as a result of a presidential transition but who discharge significant duties and exercise significant discretion in formulating and implementing executive branch policy and programs an exception to the competitive hiring rules and examinations for career positions under a new Schedule F. It ordered the Director of OPM [the Office of Personnel Management] and agency heads to set procedures to prepare lists of such confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating positions and prepare procedures to create exceptions from civil service rules when careerists hold such positions, from which they can relocate back to the regular civil service after such service.4
Who needs civil service protections? Wouldn’t it be better to have politicians running all government policy positions instead of professional civil servants? These politicos may not know anything about science or data but they do know that climate change is an invention of Washington elites who are committed to hurting oil and gas companies for no good reason.
If ideological purity is more important than experience and competence, what are the long-term implications of this Project 2025 version of “The Purge”? Do U.S. citizens get a “do over” every four years? And if so, how do you address long-term problems with a revolving work force of ideologically aligned politicians? By the way, four years in the Smiths have been vetted but they are still being trained. Not sure when exactly they will be prepared – maybe in time for the 2028 election.
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