By Steven Jonas
Contrary to surface appearances, Pres. Donald J.
Trump and Gen. John F. Kelly have certain very important characteristics in
common. Two of the most prominent are a shared
disdain for Congress and the legislative process and they both hate "the media"
(that is the media other than that sector of it that is under their
control). Nevertheless, Kelly is a general
and Trump isn't. (In fact, while he was
of induction age, the latter made sure that he did not do one day of military
service during the War on Viet Nam.) So,
one might ask, why Kelly, in addition to their commonalities? What is his role, or roles as they may
be? And oh yes. I don't think that Kelly is there by accident
or simply because Trump picked him on his own.
While many folk characterize the Trump Presidency
so far as a "failure," because he has been able to accomplish nothing in the way
of getting major legislation through the Congress, he is well on his way to hollowing
out the Executive Branch of government and destroying the regulation of the political
economy as we have come to know it since the New Deal. For the branch of the ruling class that got
him elected (beginning with the Mercers, et al) this is far more important than
any single piece of legislation, even further massive tax cuts for the
wealthy.
It is no accident that this "deconstruction of the
administrative state" is the current primary goal of Steve Bannon . And do notice that in the major changeovers in
the White House staff that have accompanied the installation of Kelly as Chief of
Staff, Bannon and his principal lap-dog Stephen Miller and lap-cat, Kelly-Anne
Conway (they both came with Bannon, brought over by the Mercers, from the Cruz
campaign), are very much in place and in play.
Also note that it is not that Bannon does not like state apparati. It is just that like other fascists he wants
state power to be fully under control of the Executive, with no independent
civil service and career professionals running the day-to-day operations and,
to a certain extent, being responsible for policy.
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Source: OpEdNews.com
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