Trump news: I reread Project 2025 now that we’re in the thick of it. The takeaway is chillingly clear.
1 month ago

Trump news: I reread Project 2025 now that we’re in the thick of it. The takeaway is chillingly clear.

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A month into Trump’s presidency, I went back through the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership.” It was stunning just how closely it tracked with the Trump presidency, not just in content but also in strategy. In its first section, the “Mandate for Leadership” sets out Project 2025’s overarching ideology: a theory of an all-powerful president, someone with authority more akin to that of a monarch than an elected democratic leader. “The greatest challenge” ahead, Vought writes, is “aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch,” which requires the “boldness to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will.” If Trump has done one thing so far, it’s break the federal bureaucracy. The Office of the White House Counsel, for example, should not be some fair-minded place for smart lawyers to assess presidential actions according to existing law; it should be an “activist” entity, with subordinates who “see their role as helping to accomplish the agenda through problem solving and advocacy.” And forget expertise or qualifications: “While a candidate with elite credentials might seem ideal, the best one will be above all loyal to the President and the Constitution.” Trump has been in office only a month, and already thousands of federal employees have been fired, some allegedly for performance, though in most cases no proof has been proffered.

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