My newest over at AMAC
Personnel is Policy as Richard Viguerie teaches
Happy Tuesday. I am pleased to see my newest column getting lots of attention. It’s Pro America policy to have Pro America personnel.
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Link here: https://amac.us/newsline/society/trump-transition-should-anticipate-deep-state-shenanigans/
Here is an excerpt of the column:
Trump Transition Should Anticipate Deep State Shenanigans
Posted on Monday, April 1, 2024
by Ed Martin
If former President Donald Trump successfully completes his comeback bid this November, he should expect no shortage of efforts from entrenched bureaucrats and Biden’s outgoing political aides to sabotage his second term before it even begins. A rock-solid transition plan will be absolutely critical for him to effectively govern over the next four years.
Scorched-earth methods have become a favorite of outgoing Democrat administrations since at least the turn of the century. After the contentious election cycle in 2000, the incoming aides to President George W. Bush were surprised to find that their predecessors in the Clinton administration hadn’t exactly left them a warm welcome.
Phone cords had been ripped from the walls, antiques had been stolen, and notes were scattered about with messages such as “Hail to the thief.” Most infamously of all, the “W” key had been removed from keyboards, an obvious barb at the eponymous middle initial of the incoming president. A GAO report found a total of $15,000 in damages during the transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush.
But those hijinks pale in comparison to what Donald Trump has in store for him upon returning to the White House next year.
During the presidential transition, there is no more important mantra than “personnel is policy.” The number one enemy of the Trump transition will undeniably be the Deep State. Uttering the phrase “Deep State” is usually met with mockery from the left, who brush the concept off as a right-wing conspiracy. However, it is hard not to believe in a Deep State when the full context is taken into account.
Fears about a transition of power in America date back to the transition from President John Adams to Thomas Jefferson in 1801. This was the first time that the presidency was handed from one political party to another. In other nations throughout history, such a transition would have been met with bloodshed. Yet, because of our nation’s strong religious tradition and ironclad Constitution, we were able to make that transition a smooth one.
At that critical period in American history, our federal government had less than 150 non-military employees to serve 5.3 million citizens. That’s roughly one federal employee per 35,350 citizens.
Compare that to our federal government today, which boasts (or bloats) around 2,250,000 federal employees for 341,000,000 citizens. That’s a staggering ratio of one federal employee for every 152 Americans. Without a doubt, the personnel aspect of presidential transitions has raised the stakes to a whole new level.
With such an enormous federal workforce, the prospect of entrenched bureaucrats who work for their own interests rather than for the chief executive is all but certain.
We saw this in practice with the first Trump transition. In the past, newly elected presidents enjoyed what was known as a “honeymoon phase,” where….
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