Biden is at the podium for showtime only

Editor's note: Maybe Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Ron DeSantis, regardless of who stands behind them, with their brand of politics and leadership can pull something out of their hats to gain control over US institutions (privatized) that have gone bureaucratically rogue and criminal. For example, Avril Haines has consulted for Palantir Technologies. Haines was also an employee of WestExec Advisors (cashing in on government service). WestExec is a "consulting firm with a secretive client list that includes high-tech start-ups seeking Pentagon contracts." WestExec was founded by Antony Blinken, Biden's current secretary of state. The guy despises the Russians. WestExec clients include investment giant Blackstone, Bank of America, Facebook, Uber, McKinsey & Company and the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. Decisions being made at the White House are not Biden's decisions. They are formulated by executives in the White House connected to Blinken's private corporation WestExec. How can there be a "functioning government" when the US government is privatized right up into the White House and US State Department? While Biden is at the podium for showtime only, WestExec has been "defining Biden's relationship with the world." It is not the "administrative state" here, it is the WestExec state. Once you begin to understand WestExec Advisors provide support for the US corporation then all this comes into clearer focus. Privatization of government put government power into the hands of the contractors - especially the tech companies.

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Source: Archive Today

2024 Presidential Candidates Against the Administrative State

Trump, DeSantis and even Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recognize the need to reassert political control.

By James Bacon | May 31, 2023

The emerging question of the 2024 presidential election: Who will slay the federal leviathan? The beast goes by another name—the administrative state—and primary contenders are increasingly placing it front and center in their campaigns.

In his Twitter Spaces launch with Elon Musk, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised to "reconstitutionalize the executive branch and bring the administrative state to heel." Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. began his White House bid by saying he'd "take the CIA and shatter it into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has a bold proposal to eliminate all civil-service protections for federal employees. And in Donald Trump's first speeches of the 2024 cycle, he claimed he is better positioned than his opponents to "root out the deep state" in 2025, having learned from his personnel mistakes during his first term.

What was once obscure has become obvious: Presidents today exercise a fraction of the executive-agency control that Franklin D. Roosevelt did when he and Congress created our modern government. The Covid lockdowns encouraged by Anthony Fauci and the recently uncovered coordination between the government and social-media platforms to censor what they arbitrarily deemed "misinformation" are fresh on everyone's mind. That these bureaucrats pursued their own agenda while Mr. Trump ostensibly had control over them proves that until you fix the administrative state, there's no guarantee that executive-branch policy will reflect the president's views.

The problem is that few politicians on the right have more than a surface-level understanding of this issue. Nearly all the scholarship on the administrative state has been done by left-wing academics for left-wing purposes. Most appointees who have served in Republican administrations have been content to get along with the administrative state—tinkering on the margins of policy without trying to change the system. Their dearth of knowledge has led to reform proposals that are often vague, unfeasible and half-baked.

In the modern era, only two teams have attempted to curb the administrative state's power: Ronald Reagan's Office of Personnel Management, led by Donald Devine, and Mr. Trump's Office of Presidential Personnel, led by John McEntee. Both men installed political loyalists among the presidents' appointees and took major steps to curtail career bureaucrats' power. Mr. Devine used reduction-in-force exercises—government-speak for layoffs—when employees' work wasn’t up to snuff. Mr. McEntee began eliminating civil-service protections for policy-making bureaucrats, among other measures. Both men moved the bureaucracy's culture in the right direction, but because of limited time in office they weren't able to finish the structural reforms for lasting changes.

The only way the next president can solve the problem for good is to assemble the right team from the beginning. It is necessary but insufficient to fill the executive branch's roughly 4,000 political positions with appointees committed to the president's agenda. He needs a White House made up of people with firsthand knowledge of how bureaucratic politics operate and the will to use that knowledge for a system overhaul. It isn't enough to have competent conservatives. As president you need people who can outsmart the bureaucrats by devising unconventional ways around the obstacles they'll erect.

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Old news but these WestExec people are still inside the White House: