Axios: Behold Trump’s secret, radical 2nd-term plan to drain the swamp HotAir

Regardless of whether one wants to see Trump return in 2024, this is a very big problem in a self-governing republic. Tens of thousands of federal bureaucrats comprising only 2% of the overall federal workforce, mind you play a profound role in shaping American life but don t effectively answer to the officials elected by American voters? Any government official with a profound role in governing Americans should fall outside of civil-service protections and serve at the pleasure of elected officials. The other 98% of federal employees can keep their civil-service protections.

The big question isn t whether this is Trump s plan. It s why it shouldn t be every Republican candidate s plan going into the 2024 election cycle. The Wilsonian model of governance by elite experts has been thoroughly discredited over the past century, and perhaps especially after the catastrophic leadership of the expert class through the pandemic. It s time to get back to direct self-governance through elected legislatures and executives instead. Schedule F looks like a very good way to get that movement rolling.

via hotair.com

Food for thought.