Opinion | What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump’s Second Term
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The former president’s allies don’t want to destroy the “deep state.” They want to seize it.

Portions of “Mandate for Leadership” read as though the authors did a Control-F search of the executive branch for any terms they deemed suspect and then deleted the offending programs or offices. The White House’s Gender Policy Council must go, along with its Office of Domestic Climate Policy. The Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations is a no-no. The E.P.A. can do without its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should be dismantled because it constitutes “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”

  • @CandelestineEnglish
    56•7 months ago

    That’s uh … basically a playbook for implementing Orwell’s 1984. About 40 years late I guess?

  • @brlemworld
    12•7 months ago

    The title is misleading.

    The book has not been blessed by Donald Trump or his campaign, and the authors emphasize that they want to help the next conservative president, “whoever he or she may be.”

    • @[email protected]OP
      30•7 months ago

      It is however written by a group of right-wing activists and blessed by the Heritage Foundation, which has a long history of setting the Republican agenda.

      You don’t elect one person; you’re electing a whole group of people they bring with them. And these are the people any Republican administration will put into power.

  • dumples
    4•7 months ago

    This whole exercise reminds me about the political appointees of the USSR throughout the entire government. These appointees could stop anything that didn’t fit the party line. I’m sure that’s where they got the inspiration

      • TimeSquirrel
        1•7 months ago

        Not seriously, no. There’s not much else to say other than what’s been said here.