President Trump’s Destroying the Federal Government As We Know It: Rebuilding May be Impossible

Find Climate Answers ^ | May 16, 2018 | Heather Digby Parton

[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. Trump’s 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 we’ve 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.

[ethom]

hat tip to Rush who mentioned it on his program..

[Buckeye McFrog]

We should be so lucky.

[Zeppo]

His lasting legacy may be the destruction of the federal government as we know it.

We can only hope...

[CaptainMorgantown]

She talks about this like its a bad thing.

[DiogenesLamp]

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. :)

[taxcontrol]

The author presents this as if it were a bad thing.

[Bryanw92]

>>President Trump’s 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.

[rellimpank]

--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---

[yuleeyahoo]

More Winning!

[Jim Robinson]

"President Trump’s Destroying the Federal Government As We Know It: Rebuilding May be Impossible"

Best election, best POTUS, evah! Drain the swamp and MAGA!!

[Ohioan]

What an absurd rationalization for the Left's betrayal of Constitutional Government!!

Misdirection: Familiar Leftist Tactic.

[Maceman]

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

[glorgau]

We’re not even on the far horizon of destroying the Federal government.

[BenLurkin]

President Trump’s Destroying the Federal Government As We Know It: Rebuilding May be Impossible

[tet68]

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!

[Mr. K]

We hope so...

[ethom]

[albie]

Woo hoo! What a great start to the weekend!! Trump is destroying the gummit!!

[Electric Graffiti]

Trump needs to in order for America to survive. We need mass firings and mass arrests...The swamp is still filled to the brim.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

A Jeb Bush presidency would not have touched government workers.