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President Trump’s Destroying the Federal Government As We Know It: Rebuilding May be Impossible
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| May 16, 2018
| Heather Digby Parton
Posted on 05/18/2018 11:31:53 AM PDT by ethom
Trump is draining the swamp Rebuilding government may be impossible
In the 2013 novel A Delicate Truth, John le Carré presents the deep state as a moneyed, cultured élite the non-governmental insiders from banking, industry, and commerce whose access to information allows them to rule in secret. Trumps conception is quite different. A real-estate baron, Trump is at war with the clerks the apparatchiks who, he claims, are seeking to nullify the election by denying the prerogatives of his Administration.
This attack on bureaucracy is really an attack on the State Department, the intelligence community and ordinary bureaucrats who enforce regulations and monitor compliance with the law. Even the usual suspects at the conservative think tanks who usually have the inside track on jobs in a new Republican administration have been shut out.
Many people claim that underneath the bluster, Donald Trump is just another Republican who likes to use Twitter. But while he was made possible by the modern conservative movement and a political system that enabled such a man to become president, he is nonetheless unique. This evisceration of federal government institutions is nothing weve ever seen before.
The story about the elimination of experts and the deliberate erasure of institutional memory in department after department is chilling. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace these people even after Trump is gone. His lasting legacy may be the destruction of the federal government as we know it.
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hat tip to Rush who mentioned it on his program..
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:31:53 AM PDT
by
ethom
To: ethom
To: ethom
His lasting legacy may be the destruction of the federal government as we know it.We can only hope...
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:34:37 AM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: ethom
She talks about this like its a bad thing.
To: ethom; BroJoeK; x; Bull Snipe; jeffersondem
In the 2013 novel A Delicate Truth, John le Carré presents the deep state as a moneyed, cultured élite the non-governmental insiders from banking, industry, and commerce whose access to information allows them to rule in secret. Wow. Seems like i've heard that theory somewhere or other. Good thing it's just a novel. :)
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:35:02 AM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: ethom
The author presents this as if it were a bad thing.
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:35:15 AM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt)
To: ethom
>>President Trumps Destroying the Federal Government As We Know It: Rebuilding May be Impossible
That is the reason why we elected him. I love the smell of napalm in DC in the morning. Burn it down! We can build a new government in Kansas, far away from the coasts.
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:35:46 AM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
To: ethom
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The story Osnos tells about the elimination of experts and the deliberate erasure of institutional memory in department after department is chilling. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace these people even after Trump is gone. His lasting legacy may be the destruction of the federal government as we know it.--
--sure hope so---
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:35:48 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: ethom
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:36:43 AM PDT
by
yuleeyahoo
(Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
To: ethom
"President Trumps Destroying the Federal Government As We Know It: Rebuilding May be Impossible" Best election, best POTUS, evah! Drain the swamp and MAGA!!
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:36:57 AM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: ethom
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:38:02 AM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: ethom
It will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace these people even after Trump is gone. His lasting legacy may be the destruction of the federal government as we know it.After 100 years of the "Progressive" movement's infiltration, invasion and ultimate takeover of the federal government, the governmen as we know it needs to be destroyed. And by destroyed, I mean returned to its Constitutional pre-Woodrow Wilson form
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:38:46 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
We’re not even on the far horizon of destroying the Federal government.
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:38:46 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: ethom
President Trumps Destroying the Federal Government As We Know It: Rebuilding May be Impossible
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:39:15 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: ethom
His lasting legacy may be the destruction of the federal government as we know it.
Heather, you say that like it was a bad thing.
The federal government as we know it today is
rotten and infested with socialists, it should
be fumigated and exposed to the light!
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:39:50 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: ethom
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:40:20 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: yuleeyahoo
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:40:58 AM PDT
by
ethom
To: ethom
Woo hoo! What a great start to the weekend!! Trump is destroying the gummit!!
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:41:15 AM PDT
by
albie
To: ethom
Trump needs to in order for America to survive. We need mass firings and mass arrests...The swamp is still filled to the brim.
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:41:16 AM PDT
by
Electric Graffiti
(Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
To: ethom
A Jeb Bush presidency would not have touched government workers.
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posted on
05/18/2018 11:42:18 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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