Portions of “Mandate for Leadership” read as though the authors did a Control-F search of the executive branch for any terms they deemed suspect and then deleted the offending programs or offices. The White House’s Gender Policy Council must go, along with its Office of Domestic Climate Policy. The Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations is a no-no. The E.P.A. can do without its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should be dismantled because it constitutes “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”
The title is misleading.
The book has not been blessed by Donald Trump or his campaign, and the authors emphasize that they want to help the next conservative president, “whoever he or she may be.”
It is however written by a group of right-wing activists and blessed by the Heritage Foundation, which has a long history of setting the Republican agenda.
You don’t elect one person; you’re electing a whole group of people they bring with them. And these are the people any Republican administration will put into power.
That’s uh … basically a playbook for implementing Orwell’s 1984. About 40 years late I guess?