Tyranny never surrenders power easily.
Just as the Founders intended, the American people have used their First Amendment rights and freedom to vote, and rebuked the Democrats for their political malfeasance and hubris. So definitive has been the message that the Donks are now devouring one another over who or what is to blame for the debacle. Of course, they’re avoiding the real causes of their political disaster––their long leftist project to “fundamentally transform America,” as Barack Obama infamously put it.
But we shouldn’t take this entertaining autophagy to mean we still don’t have a lot of hard work to do in order to solidify and strengthen our battered Constitutional order. Remember, tyranny never surrenders power easily.
The first order of business obviously rests with President Trump. He’s already made a good start by naming his campaign manager, Susan Wiles, his Chief of Staff. Her brilliant management of the campaign bespeaks the skills and temperament needed for the huge task of staffing the federal government with the right people who can repair the damage done over the past four years.
To do that, Trump must staff federal agencies and his cabinet not just with the competent and ethical, but also patriots and Constitutionalists rather than technocrats, opportunists, and feral careerists. The issue isn’t just partisanship, but the very nature of large-scale government bureaucracies that are not accountable to the citizens. Such institutions are vulnerable to “professional deformation”: the institution’s legitimate function displaced by its own self-serving narrative, which exists to determine hiring and promotion, and is prone to fossilization into received wisdom––that is, the proverbial “box” we’re supposed to think outside of.
Every one of the 4000 positions filled by presidential appointment should be replaced by employees who are thoroughly vetted––especially given how federal agencies and some of their leadership undermined Trump during his first term, and colluded with a left-wing media that functioned as press agents for the Democrats. The national security, military, and foreign policy bureaus are particularly critical for the country’s security and interests abroad, and its employees must be carefully selected, and swiftly fired when they fail.
Take, for example, the idealistic, “rules-based international order,” the stale orthodoxy of our foreign policy and defense agencies. The notion that “diplomatic engagement,” and multinational treaties and institutions can keep the peace and serve our national interests, has for decades not just failed, but allowed enemy states to double down on challenges to our power; or allies to work against our national interests while serving their own.
The best example of this malign dynamic is Iran’s ongoing development of nuclear weapons, which is close to success. Barack Obama and leaders from several other nations created the 2015 “Iran deal” that promised to keep the theocratic regime from achieving its aim. The West’s foreign policy establishments went along with this Chamberlain-class appeasement, and transferred billions of dollars to the Mullahs despite the intelligence provided by Israel that documented the continuous violations of the treaty. Trump’s new appointees should be chosen for their foreign policy realism.
Similarly, Pentagon appointments and hires must comprise those who reject DEI protocols, “systemic racism” race-hustlers, and “trans” identity promoters. All these dubious ideas have been endorsed by some progressives in the Pentagon, who should be replaced with those who don’t want to politicize our country’s services, but instead get back to training warriors for war-fighting.
This would be a big step toward improving the services’ dismal recruitment numbers at a time when our autocratic global rivals are planning for World War III. Trump’s Secretary of State and other State Department positions also must be closely vetted to keep out feckless idealists and political operatives, and instead choose those who want to restore our country’s foreign policy to its traditional realism about human nature and motivation. --->READ MORE HERE
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