Once again America is serving as a political laboratory and an example to the world around it – an example that is not necessarily a good one. Today there is a ripe idea of what to do if the entire vast bureaucracy is working according to its own agenda, and at least half of the country is unsympathetic to that agenda. Here’s what they should do: expel all and bring in clean and talented people from the regions.
Source: RIA Novosti.
The fact is that the American Heritage Foundation has assembled a team of Republicans and other conservatives who have drawn up “Project 2025,” a detailed action plan for the new US president as soon as he enters the White House. We are talking, understandably, about a Republican president, and the mention of Donald Trump’s name has been carefully avoided. It is the Democrats who think and vote in herds, for Joe Biden at least, while the Republicans have a serious conversation – where Trump went wrong, why he couldn’t get re-elected and whether he needs to go into battle with Biden, who is already known to have announced that he will be the nominee.
The plan is a thick book and not much is known about it, only what one of Trump’s associates Ken Cuccinelli told the Daily Signal’s Heritage resource. There are at least two good thoughts there. For starters: had Trump had such a plan in 2016, on the eve of his election, his presidency would not have been a time of missed opportunities.
Criticising Trump today is considered a bad idea on the right wing. However, even without criticism, it is clear that his achievements in the White House have disappointed many. The American lesson here is that a good man is not a profession. Nor is a PR genius a profession. Trump is still loved by the people for saying the obvious (and forbidden by the Democrats), i.e. continuing his career as a television star, just like Tucker Carlson, just eaten up by the same Democrats.
But a national president is more than a TV star or a good actor (and, no, let’s not talk about Zelensky). Ronald Reagan had a good political experience after his acting career and then was governor of California. Trump, on the other hand, turned out to be a bad administrator, powerless in the part of his promised “draining the Washington swamp”. In the White House he continued to star, meanwhile the swamp took on a life of its own and the president eventually got sucked in.
“Project 2025” (the date the next president takes office) is essentially a party document, formally non-binding, but playing the role of a collective punishment for the candidate while also serving as an election pledge. And here is another good idea in this document – about where to start. We should start with a massive purge of the state apparatus. Cutting the monster departments where people have been getting paid for years for it is unclear why. And with their division into smaller departments where it is possible to sort out what they are doing in general.
The main thing is to recruit people to work in Washington “as far away from the capital as possible” from day one. Already now such people must start thinking about coming to Washington with their agenda. Then they themselves and the public around them will have more fun voting.
The problem of the capital, which rules the state according to its own agenda under all regimes, has existed everywhere and throughout the history of the world. If the capital is a very big city, people there invariably develop their ideology and their lifestyle – today it is called globalist. And that sometimes translates into confrontation of the capital (and a couple of big cities) with the rest of the country. It’s so today in Russia, the US, Thailand (where new elections are looming with the old fight between the hinterland and the centre) and everywhere else.
In the case of the USA, the Republicans say, the capital has made America a bankrupt state (the national debt alone is noticeably higher than what the whole country produces in a year) and has brought other troubles. Including making a mockery of the mechanism of presidential elections, which solve nothing.
But the mere recognition of this fact is not worth much. If America were to show it can and should upgrade its bureaucracy it would regain much of its beloved global leadership.
Dmitry Kosyrev, RIA Novosti
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