As John has covered, there is a lot of hysteria on the left these days about Project 2025, and above all the idea that a President Trump might actually run the executive branch. The left is so used to a bureaucracy that runs autonomously from the expressed will of the people, not to mention the constitutional power of the chief executive, that they can’t fathom the thought of a president actually deciding to fire bureaucrats and give them firm orders about what to do.
But maybe this is a self-correcting problem? It seems that a lot of federal workers in Washington got used to (not) working at home during Covid, and still aren’t coming into the office:
It is annoying to be paying the salaries of federal employees who don’t show up for work, but this has the character of the old joke about ambivalence being the sensation when you see your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your brand new Cadillac. If we can’t fire them, maybe paying feds not to work would still be a bargain for Americans, given how much damage they do when they do show up for work.
