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At an August 4 Alabama rally Donald Trump vowed, if reelected, totally to dismantle the “Deep State.”  Being ignorant regarding the character and cadre behind this ominous label, I went to the web.  It turns out that the clandestine cabal behind the curtain, secretly flipping switches and pulling lever, is none other than our United States government!

In a “Forbes Breaking,” March 21, 2023, report, Donald Trump articulated a Ten-point Plan to dismantle the Deep State:

1. Restore the President’s power to remove bureaucrats.
2. Clean out all corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus  .  .  .  so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute Conservatives, Christians, or the Left’s political enemies.
3. Totally reform corrupt FISA courts.
4. Establish a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to expose Deep State spying and corruption.
5. Clamp down on government leakers who, with the Fake News, deliberately weave false narratives to subvert our government and democracy.
6. Inspectors General will be independent and physically separate from the departments they oversee, so they do not become protectors of the Deep State.
7. Establish an independent organization continually to monitor our intelligence agencies and insure they are not spying or running disinformation campaigns against the American people.
8. Move parts of the sprawling Federal Bureaucracy to new locations outside DC.
9. Ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs with companies they have dealt with or regulated.
10. Ask congress to enact legislation limiting term limits on its members.

May former President Trump, or any President, implement Donald’s Ten-point Plan?

To address the wishes and needs of the People, Congress establishes Departments and Agencies.  The President administers these Departments and Agencies.  Does Donald’s Ten-point Plan serve the wishes and needs of the People?

“Ay, there’s the rub.”

Explicit and implicit throughout Donald’s Ten-point—some would call “diatribe”—is the supposition that the United States government is shot through with corruption.  (Curiously, throughout Trump’s four-year administration this endemic malfeasance was never mentioned, much less addressed.)  Under his presumption, Donald would retool America’s government to his specifications, clamp down on Departments and agencies, bring it all under his iron-fisted grip!  Congress and the will of the People be damned!

Despite uncounted shortcomings and blunders, for two-and-a-half centuries the United States of America’s government has served its citizens as well as anyone anywhere has any right to expect.

Donald Trump’s Ten-point Plan would replace America’s Democracy with His Dictatorship!