I admit when all the talk of Project 2025 was going on I too allowed myself to be convinced that it was trash and BAD BAD BAD by the media. But I never bothered to even read the Intro or skim the table of contents. Then I decided to find the PDF and look through it.
I have to say, this thing is actually a work of beauty. Just going through the first parts you will see that they accurately describe how the bureaucracy has gotten out of control (and why/what the cause is), they lay out how to quickly dismantle it (currently underway as we here know), and what steps must be taken if a president is to quickly sidestep the things that will bog down and hamper a conservative president.
So far it’s exactly what DJT is doing.
There’s like 989 pages so I haven’t read it all but the opening chapters are excellent. I haven’t found a single line that anybody here would likely disagree with.
So why does it get a bad rap around here? Can anybody provide sauce on what made it so disregarded here at GAW? Seems like essential information for us to have.
Am I off base?
The modern conservative President's task is to limit, control, and direct the executive branch on behalf of the American people. This challenge is created and exacerbated by factors like Congress's decades-long tendency to delegate its lawmaking power to agency bureaucracies, the pervasive notion of expert "independence" that protects so-called expert authorities from scrutiny, the presumed inability to hold career civil servants accountable for their performance, and the increasing reality that many agencies are not only too big and powerful, but also increasingly weaponized against the public and a President who is elected by the people and empowered by the Constitution to govern.
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