Decius Speaks On Administrative State

Michael Anton Addresses His Critics, Affirms Support for Trump - American Greatness:

Turns out that Michael Anton was "Decius" who authored a couple of well done "why Trump" columns in fall of 2016. My favorites here and here.

It is worth going off and reading the linked article (as it is the linked Decius posts if you have not already). He says a couple worth things about the Adminstrative State that I'll insert here.

 "Democrats are the party of government, no question. Given that, any Republican Administration begins from a huge disadvantage. You’re taking over an apparatus of enormous size that has institutional interests of its own that diverge from the Republican agenda, and that is staffed largely, if not totally, by people who don’t agree with that agenda. This is why some of us have been sounding the alarm for years about the “administrative state.” It’s a problem so large as to be almost intractable."

The second are employees who happen to be in place when the administration turns over This is inevitable given the nature of detailing and the constitutional presidential term. The presumption, or polite fiction you might say, is that everyone who works for the federal government in a nonpolitical position is a neutral, nonpartisan civil servant, or at least someone who keeps his politics out of his job. Certainly that is true of many people. But is it credible to believe that it’s true of all or even most? Given the direction we’ve seen the administrative state go over the last several decades?

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