With the fires of war raging in Europe and the Middle East and an invasion of illegal immigrants swamping the American homeland, it might look like the new presidency will have enough on its plate.

But Americans looking at the future of President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration have already gotten a preview of his plan to overhaul the federal bureaucracy.

And it’s the deep state’s deepest fear.

In March 2023, when his return to office was still just a dream for his millions of supporters, Trump released a video detailing a 10-point plan to tame the leviathan of the United States’ sprawling federal government.

The words are clear — free of bureaucratic jargon and likely to resonate with Americans who are furious with being treated like subordinate spectators to the government they are supposed to control.

https://www.westernjournal.com/draining-swamp-trumps-10-part-plan-dismantle-deep-state-shake-dc-core/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribuneAnd they should be terrifying to the kind of arrogant operatives who bedeviled Trump’s first term in office.

Conservative commentator Colin Rugg resurfaced the video in a post on the social media platform X published Friday.

What’s notable is that No. 1 on the list is an item relatively few Americans, even among Trump supporters, would consider the No. 1 problem facing the country.

But Trump’s announcement that he would bring back his executive order from October 2020 to make it easier to rid the government of employees pursuing their own political agenda versus carrying out the orders of the administration elected by the American people.

This is no minor matter of job reorganization — it will shake Washington, D.C. to its core.

As the first Trump administration showed, the federal government is rife with personal fiefdoms — from high-profile high priests of pomposity like former FBI Director James Comey and his successor, Christopher Wray — to the activist faceless moles buried in the offices of the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Education.

The self-described “resistance” operated as a fifth column inside the Trump administration, aiming to foil the duly elected president of the American people, running out the clock on his years in office until the rightful rule — in their view — of regulators and progressive pencil pushers could be restored.

Trump’s order, known as “Schedule F” is aimed right in their direction. It wouldn’t solve all of the government’s problems. It wouldn’t address leadership at the FBI for instance, for instance, but it would go a long way toward restoring some sanity to the situation.

As the swelling of the federal government in the decades since World War II has shown, there may be no greater threat to the republic envisioned by the Founders than the metastatic multiplication of petty tyrants empowered by offices they hold without accountability to the people who are paying their salaries.

Virtually all of the rest of Trump’s plan is a variation on No. 1, in that he’s aiming to tame a government that has become ruinously powerful over the citizenry — from law enforcement and intelligence offices that have become blatantly politicized (see Trump impeachment No. 1) to the courts established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which are supposed to protect Americans but made a mockery of that role in the “Russia collusion” hoax.

That goal is included with No. 10 on the list, in which Trump vows to push for a constitutional amendment to impose (the Rugg X post incorrectly uses the word “oppose”) term limits on members of Congress.

Regardless of whether term limits are a good idea — their adoption is well beyond the powers of a presidency.

It would require amending the Constitution, which would need a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress (the very men and women whose government careers could be cut short by the proposal) or the convocation of a constitutional convention. And while a constitutional convention isn’t impossible, it hasn’t happened since ratification.

And while there’s little doubt that the sclerotic nature of the federal government is fed by the fact that election to federal office in many cases amounts to a lifetime appointment for an undeserving hack (e.g. Waters, Maxine: 33 years and counting), there’s plenty of reason to doubt term limits are ever going to happen.

And it’s no small thing to note that Founders could have included term limits in the Constitution if they’d thought it necessary. If James Madison & Co. didn’t think so, contemporary conservatives should at least have their doubts about the wisdom of it. (Messing with Madison is more of a leftist idea.)

Trump and his advisers clearly know all of that. But they’re making a bigger point.

The goal here is to restore the government to its constitutional role as a servant of the people, not their master.

The goals is making federal agencies accountable to the administration elected by the people, not to their own political agendas.

The goal, in short, is to bring the leviathan to heel.

And that’s the deep state’s deepest fear of all. source

HOW CAN I BE SAVED?

COME LORD JESUS!

No wonder she stormed away from the podium.

After all, she had no good answer because none exists.

At Thursday’s White House news conference, the first since President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 election, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre grew agitated and declared “it’s unfair” while responding to questions from Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News.

“This administration messaged to millions of Americans that they’re gonna wake up the day after the election, if Trump won, and have their rights stripped away, that democracy would crumble, and the president said today, ‘We’re gonna be OK,’” Heinrich said by way of prefacing her question.

“So how do you square that?” she added.

“I can square that,” Jean-Pierre replied.

The press secretary then proceeded to do no such thing. In fact, her comments merely highlighted the absurdity of Democrats’ hyperbolic campaign rhetoric.

Jean-Pierre spoke for more than a minute about respecting the election’s results and ensuring a peaceful transfer of power. That is all well and good, of course, but she certainly did not “square” those comments with the pre-election hyperbole.

Thus, Heinrich pressed her.

The Fox reporter asked about the “message to people who are fearful based on what the messaging was about the stakes and what could happen.”

Jean-Pierre grew agitated.

“Now, you’re just twisting everything around, and that’s really unfair,” the press secretary replied.

More gaslighting ensued as Jean-Pierre reiterated her earlier point about President Joe Biden respecting the election results. Never mind that Heinrich asked about pre-election messaging.

“I do not appreciate having my words twisted,” Jean-Pierre finally said as she closed up a folder on the podium. Moments later, she walked away, abruptly ending the news conference.

Readers may watch the entire five-minute exchange between Jean-Pierre and Heinrich in the video below. The relevant segment began around the 3:25 mark.

On the whole, Jean-Pierre’s response to Heinrich made sense in one way but not in another.

It made sense, of course, because the press secretary personifies the modern Democratic Party’s loathsome DEI regime. In other words, she holds her position because of physical characteristics such as race, gender and sexuality. Otherwise, she has no skills relevant to her job.

The same holds true for Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden selected as his running mate in 2020 solely on account of her skin color and chromosomes — and who has repeatedly shown the same communication-related deficiencies as Jean-Pierre.

Had Harris struck voters as competent, then perhaps they might have rewarded her with the presidency. But she did not, so they did not.

In short, the 2024 election amounted to a repudiation of the core DEI principle that merit means nothing. Thus, in rejecting Harris, voters also rejected Jean-Pierre. Deep inside, the press secretary must know that. Hence her irritation.

On the other hand, Jean-Pierre’s response to Heinrich made no sense because, on substance, it did not constitute an answer.

For nearly four years, Biden has governed as if Trump’s movement posed an existential threat to democracy. The Biden regime has targeted the former president and his supporters for persecution.

Nor has Biden made any attempt to conceal his authoritarianism by couching it in soft language. In fact, the president made his war on MAGA the centerpiece of his 2024 State of the Union address.

Meanwhile, Harris herself likened Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Harris surrogates have followed her lead by smearing Trump supporters in the same fashion.

Now, the Biden-Harris regime plans to peacefully transfer power to “Hitler” himself?

As Heinrich correctly implied, either Democrats are lying now, or they lied before the election. Nothing else makes sense. source

Nothing else does make sense.