‘ Well-functioning agencies: an important part of politics that constrain professional conduct’
The usual defendants have returned where they left off in 2016-2021, spewing crazy comparisons and exaggeration to describe Donald Trump, which, if anything, only proves there’s a safe bubble in which education exists.
The University of Rochester’s Jeffrey McCune, for example, don’t think Americans chose a” Hitler-brandishing, anti-immigrant, anti-abortion criminal” over the” joyful, articulate, well-experienced” Kamala Harris.
NYU’s Ruth Ben-Ghiat used the first Trump death endeavor to worry , Trump , would use it to further his “authoritarian” targets.
And evidently in sleep the last four decades, Pitt’s Paul Johnson is concerned how the internet may be “censored” in Trump’s next term.
A pair of political technology professors and a “distinguished practitioner of royal plan,” which are all “researchers on autocratic politics,” largely rehashed a item from a year ago that criticizes Trump’s actions in downsizing the executive branch as evidence of a “leader bent on expanding his own power.”
Trump has spent the past 30 days distributing pink slips to inefficient federal bureaucrats and attempting to combine and destroy several agencies.
Erica Frantz ( Michigan State U., pictured ), Joe Wright ( Penn State ), and Andrea Kendall-Taylor ( Yale ) write in The Conversation , the” seemingly bizarre series of events” initiated by Trump since Jan. 20 “are highly consistent with other countries where democracy has been dismantled”.
A “well-functioning bureaucracy ]… ] of highly qualified civil servants who follow established rules prevent abuses of power”, the professors contend. ” Agencies, in this way, are an important part of politics that constrain professional behavior”.
Like utterances of Hitler, Stalin, et. albert., Frantz and firm compare Trump to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro— because they both “purged” legal employees deemed to be hostile.
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And consider, Chávez also was constitutionally elected” but went on to destroy democracy”.
The professor notes that Maduro “was able to overturn an vote he lost and prison his critics, knowing full well that the courts and generals would follow his orders.”
Trump even emulates to one degree or another Turkey President Reccep Erdoğan, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Benin’s Patrice Talon, and Mobutu Sese Seko’s Zaire ( now the Democratic Republic of Congo ), all of whom fired officials and restructured political organizations, according to the group.
Take note of the profs ‘ use of the phrase, such as the” seemingly bizarre series of events” Trump has started. ” Seemingly” to … whom?
Not to mention, a “well-functioning government”? ” Highly qualified civil servants who adhere to established rules” are targeted by “aspiring demagogues” and therefore “replaced by incompetent loyalists who would never be hired for the location based on merit”? Actually?
Like … these men?
( Michigan State’s Frantz also wrote” Why Trump’s control of the Republican Party is bad for democracy” for , The Conversation, and was interviewed for” What’s behind Trump’s flurry of executive action: 4 essential reads on autocrats and authoritarianism”, both within the last month. )
The truth, as noted by Hans von Spakovsky and Seth Lucas, is that “bureaucrats and beneficiaries of useless federal largesse” are acting the “like spoilt children suddenly told’ no’ by their parents”.
Look at President Eisenhower, who in early 1953 “moved swiftly to clean out the then-scandal-ridden IRS and Justice Department,”” sought to roll back federal interference in matters that could be handled by the states,” and “used civil business practices as models for improving administrative processes.”
To put it even more succinctly, here’s Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller:
Want to see a murder?
Libs in the White House press corps yelled at Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff of Trump, to claim Elon Musk is “unelected”!
What happens next is a fatality.
This is the best video available right now, I swear to you: pic. twitter.com/Nxcw0qTtj1
— Benny Johnson ( @bennyjohnson ) February 20, 2025
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