- I predict Trump will say the quiet part out loud: these elections are annoying and won’t you be relieved that 2024 is the last one?
- The plan to purge the Executive branch is well-defined for Heritage Foundation causes, too boring and preachy for Trump. He enacts some of it, but mostly offends true conservatives by irrationally attacking things like Federal accounting standards and postal carrier pensions.
- The biggest disagreement between the Heritage Foundation and Trump’s followers will be the single statute they fear most: the Hatch Act. Trump himself won’t care, and the battle to neuter the Hatch Act will elevate an insider to be his successor, because:
- Among his loyalists, the spoils system: identify a civil servant whose job you want, hound them and demand in social media your immediate appointment. I predict Trump delegates this not to underlings but to social media itself.
- The value of spoils here is the delusional interpretation of Federal statutes criminalizing interference of Federal employees. It is not a bold prediction to say these people are immune to shame. An IRS appointee just walks onto flights for free. A Department of Agriculture appointee takes his cameraphone into the women’s locker room. An immigration and naturalization appointee runs a beauty contest of immigrants. The point of Republicans tolerating this will be that it’s the fastest, dramatic solution to prove we need to shrink the evil government.
EDIT: it's not an outcome I want, it's just what I believe will happen.