by Joy Pullmann at the Federalist
The right is not the party of regime change, the left is.
The Atlantic’s “disinformation expert,” Anne Applebaum, came right out and admitted it Thursday: The permanent bureaucracy is a “regime change” in the United States. The article is titled “There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing” and subtitled “How regime change happens in America.”
Her article’s second line reads: “DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have … focused their activity on the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values, and its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change.”
This is an open admission that the federal bureaucracy runs our government and that Applebaum considers the constitutional branches of president, Congress, and federal judiciary to be impediments to its rule. It’s directly in line with the views of Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and other early Progressives, who hated the Constitution’s checks and balances within a separation of powers and designed their administrative state to erase the constitutional portion of our government.
Creating this unaccountable fourth branch of government was indeed a regime change, as many constitutional scholars have documented. It was a secret regime change, though, because Progressives such as Wilson and the Roosevelts kept claiming to support the Constitution.
They meant a different thing by “the Constitution,”…
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