by John Bossange
So you thought the MAGA movement led by President Trump is intent on abolishing the “Administrative Deep State”, and returning government to the people? After a month in office, it is clear that the President and his MAGA leadership team and a new group of “elites,” are quickly establishing their own Deep State, designed to do exactly the opposite; remove the government from people.
Project 2025, created by the Heritage Foundation for the administration, aims to restore American democracy “of, by, and for the people,” and secure “God-given individual rights to live freely.” Yet the Administrative Deep State now created by the MAGA Party and driven by Elon Musk, removes individual Americans, communities, and in some cases even states from having any local control of their God-given individual rights to live freely.
The end game for this new cabal of elites is to place the entire federal government, including independent agencies such as the Department of Justice, under the direct control of President Trump and his Executive Branch, a controversial plan known as “Unitary Executive Theory.” Having a Unitary Executive means total control of Washington DC. If that’s not a different version of an Administrative Deep State, then what is?
A Unitary Executive is not restoring American democracy to the people or securing our individual God-given rights. It’s taking our rights away and giving them to the President. We fought against a monarchical power 250 years ago and formed a nation founded on resistance to arbitrary authority. In the age of monarchs, kings issued decrees. Dictators of the 20th century issued diktats. Trump issues executive orders. Today we should still be calling that big government over-reach.
The MAGA Administrative Deep State is under the control of several authors of the Project 2025, including Russell Vought who served as the MAGA National Committee’s 2024 policy platform. This Deep State oligarchy includes three new elites: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg. Together they are worth $885,000,000,000, holding more wealth than the bottom 50% of the rest of America. That fact should be a wake up call to all Americans.
As a nation we have experienced this before. A century ago, the Rockefeller, Frick, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Mellon, and the Du Pont families, among other Gilded Age robber barons, operated as an economic oligarchy, with unfettered access to a series of presidents and members of Congress. We should expect to see the same from these three technology barons of today, along with other super-wealthy individuals looking to protect their wealth by cozying up to another billionaire, the President.
All of us should be deeply concerned that history is repeating itself. The income disparity from the 1920’s and lack of financial regulations eventually led to the Great Depression of 1929.
Where does this leave the rest of us if the MAGA Deep State of elites continues to use unitary executive theory and big government overreach to control the federal government and bypass the Constitution, Congress, the courts, our states? On the outside looking in, and that’s where we were before the MAGA elites took over.
Trump’s MAGA Deep State means tremendous losses for most of us struggling to buy our food, pay our taxes, cover our medical bills, and educate our kids. Consider the following Administrative Deep State initiatives drawn from Project 2025:
*A lifetime cap on Medicare coverage
*Ending Medicare’s $2,500 per year cap of out of pocket drug costs
*Massive tax cuts to corporate income taxes
*Abolishing the Federal Reserve
*Place tariffs on competing nation imports
*Complete elimination of the Head Start program
*Dismantling the Department of Homeland Security
*Complete dismantling of the Department of Education.
*Eliminate the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
*End all federal funds for renewable energy and increase fossil fuel production
*Penalize states the require abortion coverage in private insurance plans
*Remove the abortion drug Mifepristone from the market entirely
*Pull the US out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement
Most of these initiatives will hit our pocket books, take away some of our freedoms both directly or indirectly, drain the US treasury, and ignore the ongoing climate crisis. Importantly, the MAGA elites have not worked with Congress, followed the language and intent of our Constitution, or respected the courts.
The most serious violation by the new Administrative Deep State is best represented by the spooky work of DOGE, led by Elon Musk’s tribe of techies who are diving into our personal financial data, and that of many business organizations. A federal judge has ordered this due process violation to stop, just as the courts did to protect President Trump’s sensitive bank account information and social security number. Every American deserves the same legal protection.
I don’t like Deep State governments anywhere because they lead to dictatorships where individuals lose their rights and freedoms. Our Constitution, Congress and courts are here to protect those rights and freedoms. Now is the time to be a strong and vocal advocate for the preservation of our three branches of government. We need to be sure the elites of the MAGA Party do not install a Unitary Executive.
Our silence will lead us to an oligarchy of billionaires and a dictatorship. For me, I’ll gladly work to improve America’s imperfect representative government before I support any dictator who thinks they know best.