No. of Recommendations: 4
This from a Republican strategist, though filtered through the author of the piece. Basically, it sounds like their ambition is to have government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub (as someone once said). Which I vehemently oppose. A government of/by/for the people should be all but invincible. Otherwise it can be crushed by uberwealthy people and powerful corporations, and the little guy has no possibility of defense.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/19/...In truth, the program laid out by Dans and his fellow Trumpers, called Project 2025, is far more ambitious than anything Ronald Reagan dreamed up. Dans, from his seat inside The Heritage Foundation, and scores of conservative groups aligned with his program are seeking to roll back nothing less than 100 years of what they see as liberal encroachment on Washington...They aim to defund the Department of Justice, dismantle the FBI, break up the Department of Homeland Security and eliminate the Departments of Education and Commerce, to name just a few of their larger targets. They want to give the president complete power over quasi-independent agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies that have been the bane of Trump's political existence in the last few years.Don't want to violate fair use, but it's worth a read. I suspect many here will be saying "yeah, man!". Others will be horrified. This vision goes far beyond Trump, even if Trump is trying to take credit for it. I will quote this bit because we used to discuss Congress abrogating their responsibilities because the members didn't want to take a stand, hold a vote, and then that vote be used against them in a reelection. Which is why not much comes out of Congress these days. They don't want to take ownership, even though the Constitution says they own it.
Moreover it strains credulity to describe Congress as 'imperial' when in so many respects, critics say, Congress has actually neglected its duties or kicked them over to the White House ' avoiding such as issues as new Authorizations for the Use of Military Use (AUMF), for example.I agree with the author that their vision will create a more incompetent government than they say we already have. It will be amateur hour, and our government will quickly be seized by entities with money. (We already have a problem with that...this will make it worse.)
