Trump To Dump Swamp’s Bumps?

Is Trump getting back to what helped get him into WH by offering a “drastic” new plan to slash the size of the bureaucracy? Conservatives insist such a renewed effort to drain the Swamp “could succeed” with a Trump 47.

As the WSJ coverage noted, Mr. Trump is signaling in campaign speeches, interviews & postings he wants to “fire federal employees, assert control over independent agencies & wrest spending authority from Congress.” He’s also promising to reduce protections for civil servants & deny citizenship to tens of thousands of people born in the US. We’re told that messaging is resonating with conservatives who “for decades … have tried and largely failed to fundamentally reshape the federal government.” The goal, the WSJ says, is not “only to shrink the size of the government, but also to snuff out perceived opposition to the president’s agenda within the bureaucratic ranks.”

If accurate, that “plan” not only suggests a maturing politician who is starting to learn how to communicate concrete ideas to the citizenry and not try to feed them more one-line broad-sides that often raise more questions (and criticism) than answers. One note of caution to Mr. Trump, however (not that he’d ever take it): President Obama & now Biden already beat him to using executive orders to “snuff out perceived opposition to the president’s agenda …” How’s that working out for conservatives? Another caveat: Putting the bureaucracy back into its Pandora Box of Tricks is great, but not sure “wresting spending authority away from Congress” is such a good thing either since Mr. Biden is showing how he’s been abusing it these past two years – nor might it be Constitutional, as legal scholars have told Hard-of-Hearing Joe.

Davd Soul