This piece is principally a meditation on the relationship between political appointees and career officials in the US Government system, and only tangentially about Project 2025. On the latter score, with particular reference to the section on personnel, you may recall that on October 21, 2020 the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13957, which ordered all executive agencies to submit a list of senior-level career positions to be reclassified as "Schedule F", a new category of political appointee. In other words, Trump already took this action once. (Biden quickly undid it.) Does that mean Trump would take this action again given the opportunity? Probably so, but, you're right, who knows? As for what the man says or doesn't say he will do, I (having little insight on this matter) shall remain silent.
I expect Trump would “F” the USG, just as he did the nation and world in 2017-2021. And the only reason he “disavowed” his fascist game-plan, Project 2025, was because he saw it becoming a political liability. With his history of lies and treachery, I think he forfeited the benefit of the doubt a long time ago.
Why even go down this Project 2025 rabbit-hole? Trump expressly disavowed it, and the founder of the org that sponsored it has endorsed Kamala Harris. Unless, perhaps, you believe that Trump is lying, or that Harris has a secret agenda and supports it?
And isn't the point that an army of public servants dependent on their tax-funded salaries and/or pensions are always going to favour a bigger and bigger bureaucracy? The conflict of interest is incredibly fundamental. There is no other way to reform without drastically reducing the size and scope of government.
A reduction of around 80% seems appropriate if the US is to be able to rid itself of its unconstitutional income tax, as well as shrink or eliminate all departments that stray beyond core governmental functions.
This piece is principally a meditation on the relationship between political appointees and career officials in the US Government system, and only tangentially about Project 2025. On the latter score, with particular reference to the section on personnel, you may recall that on October 21, 2020 the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13957, which ordered all executive agencies to submit a list of senior-level career positions to be reclassified as "Schedule F", a new category of political appointee. In other words, Trump already took this action once. (Biden quickly undid it.) Does that mean Trump would take this action again given the opportunity? Probably so, but, you're right, who knows? As for what the man says or doesn't say he will do, I (having little insight on this matter) shall remain silent.
I expect Trump would “F” the USG, just as he did the nation and world in 2017-2021. And the only reason he “disavowed” his fascist game-plan, Project 2025, was because he saw it becoming a political liability. With his history of lies and treachery, I think he forfeited the benefit of the doubt a long time ago.
Why even go down this Project 2025 rabbit-hole? Trump expressly disavowed it, and the founder of the org that sponsored it has endorsed Kamala Harris. Unless, perhaps, you believe that Trump is lying, or that Harris has a secret agenda and supports it?
And isn't the point that an army of public servants dependent on their tax-funded salaries and/or pensions are always going to favour a bigger and bigger bureaucracy? The conflict of interest is incredibly fundamental. There is no other way to reform without drastically reducing the size and scope of government.
A reduction of around 80% seems appropriate if the US is to be able to rid itself of its unconstitutional income tax, as well as shrink or eliminate all departments that stray beyond core governmental functions.