Donald “The Revengeful” Trump lays out his tragedy if he
wins in 2024 and returns to the White House – to remodel the entire “Deep State” to fit his agenda reported on here from NBC News with this
headline:
“Trump zeroes in on a key
target of his retribution agenda: Government workers”
The former
president’s plan to radically change the civil service is causing “anxiety for
career officials,” in no small part because it is becoming “basically doctrine
on the right.”
A central part of Trump’s 2024 presidential bid is a promise
to dismantle the “Deep State,” he said in March at his first rally in Waco, Texas: “Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy
the Deep State.”
He has also vowed “retribution for his political
enemies,” saying that if he gets back into the White
House “their reign is over.”
Last month, Trump released a list of proposals to take down what
many conservatives believe is a secret cabal of government workers who wield
enormous power and work against Republicans.
Many seemed personal, tied to Trump investigations past and present.
They included cracking down on government whistleblowers, making troves of documents public and creating independent auditors to monitor U.S. intelligence agencies.
But it’s the lead
proposal that concerns civil servants and excites conservative activists. And
it’s something Trump implemented briefly as president.
At the top of Trump’s list is reinstituting an executive order known as Schedule F “which would reclassify tens of thousands of federal employees involved in policy decisions as at-will employees.”
In other words, they would lose their employment protections, and it would be much easier for a president to fire them.
To give a taste of
how the policy might be used, the line immediately following Schedule F is his pledge
to “overhaul federal departments and agencies, firing all of the corrupt actors
in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus.”
The policy was instituted in the final weeks of the Trump administration but was not fully implemented. This time around, should Trump return to the White House, there would be little delay. Yet the embrace of this proposal, or maneuvers like it, extends beyond Trump.
For example, Russ Vought, an architect of Schedule F when he
was Trump’s OMP director, and who now is the president of the Center for Renewing America, a
right-wing think tank said: “I think Schedule F is basically doctrine now on
the right. So I think one that sits in that position does not have an ability
to not do this, not unlike any other governing philosophy widely embraced by
conservatives. Schedule F is getting to the point where I cannot see anyone who
runs on the Republican side who doesn’t put this into play.”
My 2 Cents: “DEEP STATE: A body of people, typically influential members of government agencies, or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy at all levels that allow their extremist policies and ideologies to flourish nationwide.”
What Trump strives for if he wins in
2024 and based on his own words in the above article is simple. Trump does not want
any more United States of America (USA), but instead “Nation Under Trump (NUT).”
His proposed form of government is by any
measurement is an autocracy – that is he is the one
single ruler with absolute control and decision-making power over all matters
of state and over the entire country and people from top-to-bottom.
An autocracy is a form of government in which one ruler has absolute control and decision-making power.
Autocracies have existed since ancient times, when kings
and emperors ruled over great countries and tribal lands, and they exist today
in the form of absolute monarchies and dictatorships.
Unlike in a democracy, the people living in countries with autocratic governments have no say in determining the nation’s laws, or in how those laws are enforced.
An autocratic
ruler is accountable to no one; there is no system of checks and balances, no
constitutional limit on the ruler’s power, and the ruler is not held accountable
by a cabinet of advisors, a system of courts, the people, or the press.
This must not now nor never
happen to us such as that which Trump seeks and pledges as outlined above, and again in his
own words not mine.
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