Trump's 2025 Plan for the Executive Could Deliver a Lethal Blow to the Deep State

Former President Donald Trump might not have won the 2024 general election, but seeing that he’s the frontrunner for the nomination, it’s best to have an agenda. This plan isn’t your run-of-the-mill list of legislative priorities that every candidate drafts on foreign and domestic policy. What Trump has planned for 2025, should he win, goes beyond most white papers we’ve seen thus far. 

This action item is a far cry from his 2016 transition. It’s about retooling the executive, which The New York Times described as a Nixonian overhaul on steroids. It’s a juiced-up unitary executive theory put into practice. Allies of the former president discussed how the current model is tailored for liberals and their agenda. For a conservative to operate this system successfully, the entire institution must be revamped, giving the executive broad powers. 

The increase in presidential power will trigger liberals and probably spur weeks’ worth of free media about how Trump is a fascist. Ignore the noise, but this overhaul will allow the president to purge thousands of government workers and get the intelligence community in line. The deep state as we know it could suffer a fatal blow, as the president, under this Trump protocol, could systematically remove troublesome officials who have acted in bad faith over the past decade (via NYT): 

Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.