Thru The Back Door

Trump's fuckery is unlimited.

Every time we think it can't get worse,

he makes it worse.

There is no bottom.

But anyway -

Project 2025 is basically a plan to re-jigger the executive branch, in service of pushing hard for The Unitary Executive - which the wingnuts have been slavering over for decades.

Two things come to mind whenever I look at what President Musk and his frontman Trump have been doing the last 7 weeks.

First, it seems clear to me that the DOGE nonsense is at least partly about bringing the Line Item Veto back into play. This has been a major hobby horse for "conservatives" as far back as US Grant. Then Nixon's impoundment antics prompted legislation to outlaw that shit, and it popped up big in the Reagan years. They got Clinton to sign on for it in the mid-90s, but it got knocked down by SCOTUS in just a few years.

So it looks a lot like DOGE is an attempt to bring it in thru the back door.

Second, another bit they're trying to sneak in on us is the whole Schedule F thing - where they fire a huge number of career federal workers, and then hire (ie: appoint) people who are sufficiently loyal to Project 2025's ideology and objectives - where the ideological loyalty is disguised as loyalty to Trump.

All this shit is classic Republican fuckery on steroids.

1. Fuck something up
2. Wait for people to feel the pain, and start to push back
3. Bring in the changes you wanted to make all along, "per the mandate of the people"

Granted, government needs to work better - nobody disputes that. But only a very few obscenely wealthy assholes want to remake the whole thing so it fits the standard Animal Instincts Business Model.