r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/LegendOfTreen • 4d ago
Project 2025 - our path to Gilead Politics
Should we be horrified yet??? With the overturning of Chevron???
39
Upvotes
r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/LegendOfTreen • 4d ago
Should we be horrified yet??? With the overturning of Chevron???
3
u/ZongduOfArrakis 4d ago
How likely is it that the replacement for bureaucrats are so incompetent that they cannot make things function? Like this isn't to downplay the risk, but a big thing honestly ignored in the US is an importance of an administrative state. Saying 'we're going to do all this stuff but also replace people who don't have transferrable skills' is scary but also trying to have your cake and eat it too in a way.
Trump's first presidency often depended on experts uncomfortably carrying out orders, a second term would see people without experience as well as a likely more extreme Cabinet. This might be intentional in certain departments but for others you'd have 'oh shit, we can't make the numbers work' and have an economic crisis essentially which would basically piss off a lot of 'pressure groups' who'd want to entrench Trump's powers.
Liz Truss in the UK was an example of what happened as someone who, while adopting extreme policies was probably more willing to listen to certain limits and who only had herself and her finance minister fucking things up, not the entire bureaucracy. She still caused unprecedented damage, and unlike in the US she could easily be told to go as the head of government is in the legislature and the party can easily find a replacement.