Shock and Awe

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Day 1 Fire them all

Like airplanes on a runway.  Trump's approach this time around should be what he should have done last time:  Shock and awe.  Shut down departments, fire bureaucrats, exercise emergency powers, all so fast that the establishment's responses are saturated.  Javier Millei's whirlwind assault in Argentina should be the model, sometimes in specifics but also in general approach.  Bureaucrats move slowly; Trump should move fast.

Elon Musk says he can cut $2 trillion easily; do it.  Also, set bureaucrats competing with each other for what funds remain.  Divide and conquer.

The FBI's files on its policing of domestic dissent should be opened up, as should the details of the NSA's illegal domestic spying.  Trump should have outsiders investigate possible (likely) prosecutorial misconduct in the January 6 prosecutions – something judges have already raised – and fire those responsible, as well as subjecting them to what other legal consequences may apply.  The lesson that the deep state can't intervene in domestic politics needs to be driven home, and the only way to do that is to ruin a lot of lives on the part of people who deserve to have their lives ruined, from the top of the Justice Department and the intelligence agencies to the bottom.  Likewise those involved in social media censorship programs, "Operation Chokepoint" style economic warfare, and the like.  Abuse of government power against the citizenry should be treated as a criminal matter, because it is.

Trump should also announce that the federal government is waiving qualified immunity on the part of such officials.

There are lots more ideas – you can submit your own in the comments below, and the much-maligned Project 2025, though not actually a Trump initiative, contains some – and Bloomberg is already warning that if elected Trump will dismantle the White House's gun control ministry.  Oh no!

The specifics aren't really the point here, though I should probably post another essay just about those.  But the point here is rapid action across a wide variety of fronts.  Trump should take advantage of the precedents that Biden has set for far-reaching executive action, though you can bet that when he does the press will pretend this is the first time anything like that has ever been done.

On the legislative side, it depends.  Assuming functional majorities in both houses, he should strike hard.  He should do what Reagan promised and abolish the Department of Education.  The Department of Justice should be drastically shrunk and it, along with the IRS, should be moved out of the capital to rural parts of blue states.   (Blue states so as not to change the political balance as might happen if you sent a bunch of federal workers to a red state).  Think what an economic boon the new FBI headquarters would be to Plattsburgh, NY if it were built there!

Federal spending on education, which has produced little in the way of tangible benefits, and nontrivial amounts of harm, should be slashed or eliminated.  Campaign finance laws, which are just a tool for lawfare now, should be repealed.  Etc., etc.

Again, rapid action is the key.  Saturate the media's targeting systems so that it can't focus on one thing long enough to make a difference.  And any bills that might appeal to the GOPe should be held back, as hostages, until Trump's priorities get through.  No giving away the store up front, leaving them free to undercut you once they have what they want, as was done last time.

[CNCAppsJames]

Scorched Earth to bureaucracy is the ONLY way. 

[Jim at Gentex]

"It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning."
-Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone'

A reckoning indeed.

I think Trump can actually make some progress in draining the swamp this time around because he knows the mistakes he made in 2016 and will likely not repeat any of them.

He can't fire anyone in Congress, that's up to we the people.
But he CAN and WILL fire a shitload of life-long bureaucrats who sabotaged his first term from within. 

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But he CAN and WILL fire a shitload of life-long bureaucrats who sabotaged his first term from within

yes...

During Trump's first term, the EPA actually was offering classes on how to legally slow walk and ignore Trump's orders.
He should go through that organization like a cleansing flame, firing every live soul he legally has the power to fire.

[CNCAppsJames]

Vivek Ramaswanny (sp?) spelled it out clearly how it can be done Constitutionally on Shawn Ryan's Podcast.


 

[Jim at Gentex]

Vivek will be a key person in the Trump Administration II.

He's very bright, he understands the US Constitution inside and out, AND, his desire is to follow it to the letter.

That in itself is a refreshing change that I personally can't wait to see...

[RobertELee]

This is a good start

https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1855346782433398956