Steve Bannon, said many ominous things yesterday when he spoke at CPAC. Most ominous was his goal -- "the deconstruction of the administrative state." What does this mean? No more environmental regulation? No more gun control? No more regulation at all? The rollback of the New Deal? No civil rights enforcement? A libertarian dream of no government? A Hobbesian world? But Bannon has always been a fan of Lenin and spoke of the destruction of 'the state,' decades ago. Now he is moving swiftly to this goal. He says: “And that is what I’m proudest about Donald Trump. All the opportunities he had to waver off this, all the people who have come to him and said, ‘Oh, you’ve got to moderate’ — every day in the Oval Office, he tells Reince and I, ‘I committed this to the American people, I promised this when I ran, and I’m going to deliver on this.’ ” This is the end of our government.
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