Biden Allies Plot to Use Mass Protests, Lawfare to Keep Trump from Firing Deep State BureaucratsWendell Husebø 17 Jun 2024
The establishment in Washington, DC, is preparing to resist and thwart reforms to the federal bureaucracy proposed by a potential second Trump administration.
Trump plans to purge the administrative state by firing career bureaucrats from the DOJ and the FBI if he wins reelection, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters in May. Trump has repeatedly vowed to drain the administrative state, or “deep state” as he termed it, upon returning to office.
The term “administrative state” specifically describes the phenomenon of unaccountable and unelected administrative agencies, including the national security apparatus, exercising power to create and enforce their own rules. The administrative state uses its rule-making ability and raw power to essentially usurp the separation of powers between the three branches of government by creating a so-called fourth branch of government not formed by the Constitution.
Democrats, fearing a Trump return to the White House, are working to thwart any reforms from a Trump administration. Interviews conducted by the New York Times with more than 30 officials and leaders of organizations told the paper they plan to use mass protests and legal means to stop a second Trump administration.
“What Trump and his acolytes are running on is an authoritarian playbook,” Patrick Gaspard, the chief executive of the CAP Action Fund, told the Times. “So now we have to democracy-proof our actual institutions and the values that we share.”
“He is no normal candidate, this is no normal election, and these are no normal preparations for merely coming out on the wrong side of a national referendum on policy choices,” Ian Bassin, the executive director of Protect Democracy, said about his plans to resist a Trump agenda of reform.
The ACLU’s director, Anthony Romero, said his left-wing organization mapped out 63 scenarios to combat Trump. His team organized the resistance according to policy, timing, and other factors. One form of resistance is organizing mass protests to potential Trump reforms.
“You’re going to have to go retail, protest by protest,” Romero told the Times.
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