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America, the One Party State
A takeaway from the 2024 Election.
Consider “Election 2024” was an election without candidates, without a mandate, without a winner. But an election nonetheless, and a retread of the status quo.
Or so it seems.
Save one unfamiliarity: a portion of the electorate chose a one party state. For if one considers the election a forebear of Project 2025, a license to govern, the overriding mission of Project 2025 is to further a one party state — the party of Trump. One either belongs in it or is excluded from it, thereby qualifying as an enemy of it (of the state).
I didn’t say this. Project 2025 does.
The President must set and enforce a plan for the executive branch. Sadly, however, a President today assumes office to find a sprawling federal bureaucracy that all too often is carrying out its own policy plans and preferences — or, worse yet, the policy plans and preferences of a radical, supposedly “woke” faction of the country. The modern conservative President’s task is to limit, control, and direct the executive branch on behalf of the American people…
The effectiveness of those EOP (Executive Office of the President) levers depends on the fundamental premise that it is the President’s agenda that should matter to the departments and agencies that operate under his…
