Erick-Woods Erickson
Pentagon bureaucrats are privately meeting trying to thwart President Trump.
A FEMA supervisor instructed employees in Florida after the hurricane to avoid helping families whose homes had Trump signs in the yard. Yes, it really happened.
The staff at the Department of Justice, particularly in the Civil Rights division, are notoriously progressive. The staff at the EPA likewise have put absurdities ahead of practicalities in balancing environmental regulation with cost and common sense.
Fire them all.
The bureaucrats have forgotten they work for the people and instead think the people and politicians work for them.
On the first day, Donald Trump should purge the bureaucracy. They need some sense of humility. They need to be forced into submitting to the will of the Chief Executive Officer of the United States of America.
Cut what can be cut. Fire who can be fired.
Our bureaucracy has gotten incompetent. They have only ever known the United States as leader of the free world. They have denigrated the spirit of those men and women who came out of World War II knowing the United States needed to lead. When the Emperors of Rome were fighting each other, the Roman bureaucracy could keep the empire going. Ours cannot even deliver the mail on time.
Cut what can be cut. Fire who can be fired. Reform the American bureaucracy. There can be no sacred cows.
Side Note
This happens in every election, but wow, are we witnessing it for real with the Democrats!
Everyone’s priors are being confirmed.
What I find most notable is the progressives’ insistence that identity politics and wokeness did not cost them the election.
A majority of Americans who think the country’s democracy is seriously threatened went for Trump, not Harris, in large part because those outside the wealthy income brackets think Democrats are a bigger threat.
Democrats also are rapidly concluding that the American people themselves are just bad. Normally, the Democrats fall back to “messaging.” But they are rapidly concluding the message was fine, the voters were not. This is all very East Germany. Bertolt Brecht’s famously sarcastic poem comes to mind.
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?