“...Edwards successfully harnessed the teachers’ union and other assorted
government deadheads, and turned their hatred of Jindal to his favor.”
Some of those “deadheads” expressing their hatred of Jindal were here on FR. Jindal purportedly cut nearly 30% of do-nothing bureaucrats, while turbo-charging the post-Katrina recovery effort and private industry—especially offshore oil, refineries, shipyards, and related industries-— while placing a 5 year lifetime limit on welfare benefits.
Jindal was trying to Make Louisiana Great Again.
What Jindal was doing in LA was essentially a micro-blueprint for what Trump needs to do in the US. And it’s also a harbinger of the type of vicious resistance and outright sabotage Trump will face from Democrats and RINOS.
At the beginning of his second term in 2011, Jindal went after the teacher’s union - tenure, performance scores, school rankings - the whole shebang.
Unfortunately, he only was partly successful, and they counterattacked for the rest of his term.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
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