Trump and Radical Change

Incidentally, I expect this stuff not to work.

Radical changes are typically big gambles.

Which is why I'm generally against them.

To roll the dice on ideas like this, you basically have to think that the bureaucracy / deep state is such a clear and present danger that it's better to roll the dice for something very different.

I don't understand it all well enough to be confident that that's right.

But I think the Trump team's view is:

It can't be reformed slowly.

That's the nature of this beast.

It only allows itself to be ratcheted in one direction: bigger and bluer.

Counterpoint: that's two directions, dumbass.

Countercounterpoint: blue is not a direction.

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So: if there's any hope of mitigating the slow-motion train wreck (as they see it), it lies in sudden change.

In some cases, the change is clearly warranted--e.g. mystical gender pseudoscience, DEI, etc.

But those hardly count, because they're just a matter of undoing radical, obviously crazy changes imposed by the blue team.

Firing everybody at USAID...that's a whole different kind of thing.

I expect it to turn out to be a mostly bad idea--though a mostly bad idea with at least some benefits, to whatever extent that matters.

Just my WAG.