Same old same old.
Yawn, Go Trump!
good management and limited government are the same thing
If government runs more efficiently without waste and abuse, it should be smaller. And yes, we can eliminate some functions of government, which Trump has also mentioned.
I am so glad Palin joined Trump’s campaign and will be part of his administration.
She came in to work with the Stevens republican administration in Alaska. She saw the corruption in the energy department “the bastard’s club” and then had her own bosses and colleagues arrested and jailed.
Then to top it off ran for governor, won, and sliced the budget. I think Alaska’s budget went from deficits to surpluses during her tenure.
I hope she still has it. I hope Trump puts her in charge. I hope she has been hardened with a slow anger at the Republican gravy train establishment that mistreated her, and cuts programs left and right.
I have full confidence that if she has a post in the Trump administration, and if Trump is of like mind, that the USA will be an lean, small, well oiled machine, raking in the bucks in no time.
I hope the old adage is true, “Hell has no fury like a spurned woman”
She was a cost cutting executive first and a populist campaigner second.
We all know how “DC Deals” go—Taxpayers get the shaft.
Trump just nullified himself with me.
Here’s the thing - none of the Republicans are credible on the issue. No democrats are, either.
For now, I’ll take great management.
Trump’s a liberal populist with some conservative leanings.
Indeed Trump is no conservative he like Obama thinks every thing has to be a deal.
“Conservatives incline to take the weakness of our elite institutions”
The foreign born writer thinks we have “elite institutions”. This is what he and others like them think. And about us, they can clearly see we are not in the “elite institution” club.
They are about to get the pitchfork and torch treatment.
Trump Promises 'Great Management' -- No, We Need Limited GovernmentLike a dying business should forgo great management to less, limited business...got it.
Trump is right as always. We have really stupid people...
Perhaps the majority of voters don’t want limited government.
I hate to say this, but would Obama have won two elections if Americans really wanted limited government?
Not a Trump fan... but it seems to me that the reigning republicans in Congress have assisted in creating this expansive government that they are now complaining Trump won’t limit.
Well Yuvil aka Mark what have you got again’t good management? Good management by its very definition would meant cutting out the waste and fraud in govt which would lead to smaller govt. Trump has listed agencies that need to go including Education.
Hey we all know your girlfriend’s son is working on the Cruz campaign. But what’s a little cronyism among conservatives? LOL!
Isn’t that pretty much just what Etch A Sketch promised us?
He's saying that a core aspect of conservatism is to view a large, overbearing, and inefficient government as one whose scope must be reduced. Whatever the federal government is doing that is outside of its core functions should be removed, so that it can focus on doing better at those core responsibilities that it is supposed to do. Prior to Trump, nobody on FR would previously have disputed that baseline concept.
IHe then says that we don't hear any of this from Trump. Rather, all we here is about how he is going to make the government run better. But nothing about reducing the scope of government. And that isn't a conservative position. I. Fact. It's basically what the left always says - it's not that we need to shrunk the government - its that we need it to be more efficient.
So where exactly is the author wrong?
I'm not sure he can provide that better management -- he may just bring chaos -- but just what is and isn't possible is a discussion people like Yuval should take more seriously.
To believe that because Ted Cruz wants less government (or says he does now) that we'll get less government if he's elected is very naive.
Yuval Levin says please buy a subscription to the CINO National Review so I don’t have to flip burgers.
Is there a way to block National Review from my browser? We block porn don’t we?