Trump’s enemies wrap themselves in the flag and claim to be the defenders of democracy, but even now, they are planning to undo his electoral victory if he succeeds.
Winning the election could prove to be a Pyrrhic victory if Trump does not take very specific steps to wrest control of the federal government from hostile elements in the permanent bureaucracy.
Setting aside who really won in 2020, no one disputes that Trump did win in 2016, but after that victory, he was still not allowed to govern.
Outright lies from the intelligence community gave birth to the "Russian Collusion" accusation, which permitted the Obama administration to spy directly on Trump's campaign through secret warrants on key campaign personnel.
Taming the Bureaucracy Trump's presidency will have little permanent effect if he does not devote himself to the task of reform.
In keeping with these efforts, Trump should lead the Republican Congress to pass legislation scaling back civil service protection.
The quality, motivations, and sheer numbers of recent immigrants are incapable of being assimilated without massive efforts by native-born Americans.
The current immigrants are also more likely to be alienated from and disruptive to our society.
Among immigrants, there are degrees of distance from our people's culture.
Certain pre-political habits-the ability to trust and be trusted without blood ties, for example-are critical for thriving in our system and for our system not to be undone by free riders and newcomers.
We see some hint of this future with Trump's oddly multicultural coalition.
Even if the new America will be quite different from what exists today-just as post-New Deal America was quite a bit less liberty-oriented than what prevailed before-there are still degrees of disorder, disunity, and decline.
Even as a Trump administration scales back our foreign policy adventurism-an unalloyed good that he mostly stuck to in his first term-rebuilding our industrial and defense capacity should remain a high priority.
Trump's background as a builder is one of his great strengths.
Compared to the country Trump grew up in, the country is weaker and uglier.
One reason I expect Trump may actually pursue reform in this area is that affirmative action is unpopular with essentially everyone.
We are told repeatedly that diversity is our strength, even though proportional diversity has only been accomplished through lower standards, which leads to many small failures and inefficiencies accreting throughout society's interlocking and complex systems.
The problems end up metastasizing, as standards are lowered for everyone in order to maintain the fiction of equal competence, extending the rot even to those not formally designated as beneficiaries of the system.
Trump and his friend Elon Musk are about excellence.
Trump needs to be singlemindedly focused on these reforms.
Anything less will simply be undone when he leaves office, just as Biden rapidly unwound Trump's successes on the border.
Trump's enemies wrap themselves in the flag and claim to be the defenders of democracy, but even now, they are planning preemptively to undo his electoral victory if he succeeds.
Thus, preliminary to the agenda proposed above, an important question remains unanswered from Trump's first term: Are elections allowed to change the course of government?
https://amgreatness.com/2024/10/22/without-massive-reform-a-trump-victory-will-be-in-vain/
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