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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Why do you support donald trump
« on: November 21, 2023, 09:48:54 AM »I've heard of it. There's a few different ways of looking at it.There is a very distinct difference between what you are saying here and the plan for Project 2025 though. That is the Schedule F reclassification for federal employees. This reclassifies employees who have any part of their job touching policies into a new schedule of employee who can be fired at will and replaced. It's standard for the upper management of agencies to be replaced by the president, and by extension be people picked out by the respective parties because one person doesn't have enough broad expertise to make determinations of who is fit for vastly different positions (who to lead agencies related to health vs energy vs education, etc.) It is not standard for the employees who do the day-to-day operations to be open to being replaced by the president which a lot of those day-to-day people would be open to replacement under schedule F.
Running for president as some guy has an interesting weakness. If you win you need to form an administration which means knowing a lot of people with an obscure skillset. The RNC and DNC have access to these people. If you're just some guy then you probably don't know enough of these people to form an administration. You have to rely on one of the existing two parties. This has a tendency to hamstring any agenda you have which doesn't align with either party well.
There's the "oh my god, fascism!" angle. It is a valid concern here. Maybe a bigger problem is packing the administrative state with people who couldn't run a government even if they wanted to. They're looking for loyalty over competence.
The people were largely insulated from all the stupid nonsense did during Trump's first term. If Trump wins a second term I think we're going to feel it. I think a lot government related services are just going to stop functioning effectively.