What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump’s Second Term
Posted on AllSides February 29th, 2024
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Christopher Lee for The New York Times
OPINION
Every new administration that wins power away from the opposing party contends that whatever its predecessors did was terrible and that victory constitutes a popular mandate to fix or get rid of it all. Elections have consequences, politicians love to remind us, and a big one entails trying to change everything, right away.
It is possible to read “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” — an 887-page document proposing to remake the executive branch, department by department, agency by agency, office by office — as one more go-round in this...
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