2024-01-21 20:46:04
On January 5, 2024, Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump arrived at the Sioux Center in Iowa to attend a rally. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
[The Epoch Times, January 21, 2024](Written by English Epoch Times columnist Jeffrey A. Tucker/Compiled by Yuanquan) Former President Donald Trump (Trump) is very likely to become the next President of the United States. If this happens, the United States will face a huge test. Everything that happened from 2017 to 2021, including out-of-control media bias, unlimited false investigations, and non-stop vicious smear campaign, not to mention impeachment, will be multiplied exponentially.
Let’s analyze what might happen.
In the first 100 days, the new president will need to staff the executive branch with new staff, approximately 4,000 people. Typically, this call for talent is met with numerous applications.
Not this time. The last staffers who took office in the new administration in 2017 often regretted this for two reasons: Many of them were fired in the face of the president’s wrath (in many cases firing was probably the right thing to do) and then faced long-term unemployment. Professors have been unable to regain their jobs, as have business executives, who have been shut out of schools and industry.
It’s hard to know who will be willing to serve this time. To be sure, many of the previous appointees at the various think tanks now associated with Trump are available at any time, freeing the new administration from recruiting talent from academia and business. Taking such a job would mean a lower salary and unimaginable pressure, so President Trump would have to rely on existing supporters, including activists and donors.
This might be a bad thing or a good thing. In any case, this will be unlike any previous cabinet government, and it will be strange that high-end and well-known professionals are not among them.
Every newly appointed official will be declared enemy number one by the bureaucrats in all government agencies. They were hated, thwarted, betrayed, and reviled. Their only option, their only chance of survival, is to streamline the bureaucracy as quickly as possible by cutting budgets and reallocating funds.
Regardless, every decision in this area will be opposed and attacked by the media and Congress. Each appointee will face frantic investigations into his or her private life, as well as smears and accusations unprecedented in American public life. It will be bloody.
It is widely believed that the first goal of the new administration is to tear down the wall that stands between the office of the elected president and the executive branch that actually rules the country. To this end, various executive orders will be issued to reclassify employees, which will be challenged in the courts, and various courts will issue moratoriums, thwarting this effort.
At the same time, administrative agencies will be prepared to avoid attacks. They will continue to leak information to the New York Times, telling them regarding the emerging “dictatorship” and the ongoing “threat to democracy.” This is going to be the theme of the day, and people are going to keep hearing that President Trump has declared himself a dictator, even though that is complete nonsense.
The top priority of the executive—the professional management class of government—is to protect themselves, their jobs, and their power from the encroachments of the democratically elected president. We had never seen anything of this magnitude, not even the Reagan administration had threatened the bureaucracy so harshly. This will be an opportunity for them to test their powers of persuasion and smear campaign to make life difficult for President Trump.
Meanwhile, his legal bills and legal challenges will mount up indefinitely, he will be required to appear in court constantly to explain hundreds of little things, past and present, and he will face anything that limits and impedes the functioning of the government itself and protects the bureaucracy and its power . His presidential immunity will protect him in most circumstances, but even that right can be challenged.
The only way to solve the whole problem is for the Loyalists to act quickly and brilliantly to thwart all attempts to prevent the revolution. This will occur at all levels of government and even affect the military, which will commit to independence from President Trump’s control.
The other party is already prepared. The National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) published an article titled “Concern that Trump will use the military in an ‘authoritarian way’ following returning to the White House.” Asserts that President Trump will take control of the Pentagon and State Department, two agencies accustomed to operating without any oversight from the president.
The article said: “Donald Trump has stoked fears among those familiar with the inner workings of the Pentagon that he will turn the nonpartisan U.S. military into a powerful weapon for his political agenda by making comments regarding dictatorships that disparage the power that underpins the United States. The checks and balances of two centuries of democracy.”
Do you understand? The idea is that leaders elected by the people should have no power over the most powerful institutions. This is complete nonsense, but it is what it is. The Obama and Biden administrations have heavily politicized the military and every other institution, and personnel in all of these institutions naturally gravitate toward leftist political views because of conservation concerns. They are ready to go to war with President Trump.
There is also the CIA, which is more powerful than any other government agency. President Trump must control the situation with a group of pragmatic and hard-working people, otherwise he will definitely fail.
Throughout this whole ordeal, if this happens, remember this: When they say President Trump is “attacking democracy,” he is actually attacking the nation’s administrative institutions that have gone unchallenged for decades. I’m sorry to tell you that it’s been a long time since an elected leader has truly been in charge of the country. Most of the time, we’ve been ruled by government agencies.
Everyone needs to master the Constitution and American history, and there is no mention in the Constitution of the mysterious fourth branch, the bureaucracy, which has the power of self-government to rule the country without permission from other branches. Despite this, they believed in their power precisely because their power was never challenged.
Presidents in the 18th and 19th centuries might replace any and all federal employees. They are the bosses, the CEOs of the government, they really control the executive branch. We have an executive branch, but it is too large and empire-like for the new president to control. Plus public sector union rules prevent them from being fired easily.
In the past, the president’s power to control the bureaucracy was smeared as a “spoils system,” which is actually how the U.S. Constitution works. But the situation began to change in 1883. The government grew during the war and depression and became the beast that currently oppresses Americans.
During the pandemic, the CDC and HHS imposed a ton of terrible rules without anyone’s permission. These include eviction moratoriums, mask mandates, student loan forgiveness and vaccine mandates, all with the tacit approval of the Biden administration, as is everything bureaucrats want to do.
To regain true democracy and freedom, this bureaucracy must be ended. The Trump administration needs to get this under control and destroy it completely, otherwise the entire four years will be a failure. President Trump must not be distracted by his obsession with raising tariffs, which is deeply regrettable and will only harm the economic growth he needs every bit to boost his popularity.
It is crucial for the Trump administration that the House and Senate be controlled by Republicans. If not, it will be at the mercy of others. If it can do this and stick to its agenda, then despite media attacks, lawsuits and constant smears, Trump will A second Trump administration might also bring regarding lasting change.
Remember: People cannot live under a dictatorship, but will experience for the first time what it means for a democratically elected president to do good things for the people.
About the Author:
Jeffrey A. Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, headquartered in Austin, Texas. He has published thousands of articles in academic and popular media and 10 books in five languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown (2020). He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He also writes a regular economic column for The Epoch Times and has spoken widely on topics such as economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.
Original text: Published in the English Epoch Times.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the position of The Epoch Times.
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