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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (199172)	4/18/2021 12:43:44 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 363194

I can't explain it, other than an unwillingness to be open to the possibility the Democrats are evil. Um, let's see. Your explanation is that 30 or so percent of the country is evil. Who is the conspiracy theorist again?

To: i-node who wrote (199172)	4/18/2021 2:14:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 363194

given her years with the federal government, which has a corrosive on almost everyone who works there. The federal bureaucracy is as close to objective and non-partisan as can be found these days. Congress appropriates money to fund programs established by law and regulation. Bureaucrats effect those programs. They do it regardless of which party is in the White House or which party advocated for those laws and regulations. That's the job. Far from corrosive, the federal bureaucracy, even now, is one of the most constructive institutions we have going. To the extent that there is bias, it is because the Democrats see government as part of the solution and Republicans see government as part of the problem. As a result, Republicans have traditionally squeezed the bureaucracy while the Democrats appreciated it. But the law and regulations are still the law and regulations and the job is still the job. Part of the problem with the Trump administration was that it did not attract the experienced let alone the best and the brightest. It featured amateurs who were continuously bumping into the furniture when they weren't actively dismantling. An administration needs profound knowledge of how things work to get what they want out of institutions. If Trump was disappointed in the product of the bureaucracy, it's because he didn't know how to use it and didn't want to know. Can't blame the horse when the rider is sitting on it backwards.