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> The "federal government is inherently evil" is a principle that doesn't magically go away when small-government people get in to power.

In my experience it’s exactly this. The principle vanishes quickly, because none of those “small government” people were really so. The primary small government faction in the US is conservatives. They’ve been, for a few decades now, VERY large government. Bordering on fascist.

They just lie, because it’s easy and none of their constituents care. You have better odds of hell freezing over than conservative constituencies holding their representatives accountable. When you’re in that situation, you’d be stupid not to lie.

To expand on this, shrinking the bureaucracy isn’t shrinking the government. Because, if you had read the agenda in project 2025, you’d know that the intention is to then concentrate those powers in the president.

That’s not smaller gov, that’s bigger. You’re creating a monarch.

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I’m not sure why this comment was killed. Completely accurate assessment. Republicans are only “small government” until states try to do something they don’t like. (Support trans athletes or undocumented immigrants? Have fun getting all your federal funding pulled.) And the monarchy of the executive is something they’ve been eagerly proselytizing for years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

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It’s unpopular because conservatives hate it when you tell them what their representatives are doing. Again, they’re allergic to accountability!

To this day, millions deny the impact of project 2025. Like it’s some made up liberal strawman.

Guys, half the writers are in his cabinet. He’s following it to a tee. I don’t think we could’ve asked for a more perfect establishment Republican if we tried.

They’re not some little guys dismantling the system. They ARE the system.

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Yep: https://www.project2025.observer/