X post by Cynical Publius
I want to talk about disruptive change.
I’m disheartened to see so many MAGA supporters saying that Trump’s Cabinet picks won’t be able to beat The Swamp. This is particularly true with Trump’s latest pick of Pete Hegseth as SecDef. Pete is a warrior who never saw the E Ring of the Pentagon, and some Trump supporters are saying the Military/Industrial Complex and the Pentagon Deep State will make mincemeat of him.
I disagree.
Pete represents disruptive change, just like Elon/Vivek in DOGE and the rest of the Trump ’47 team.
Trump learned his lesson in his first term when he wrongfully trusted the Beltway insiders, and he has seen the error of his ways. Even better than that, he has had four years to figure how to make things right.
History is replete with examples of effective disruptive change. Effective disruptive change is when a system is failing, and a dynamic visionary radically wrecks the old system and simultaneously builds it anew in a better way.
Moses.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Galileo.
Martin Luther.
Abraham Lincoln.
Louis Pasteur.
Henry Ford.
Thomas Edison.
General George C . Marshall.
Jackie Robinson.
Ronald Reagan.
Margaret Thatcher.
Pope John Paul II.
Steve Jobs.
Elon Musk.
Donald Trump.
Change agents, every last one of them.
When entrenched systems fail, change agent visionaries know that radical new ideas are needed to come in and wreck the old system while building an effective new system inside the ruins of the old one.
Donald Tump is such a visionary change agent, and he is picking kindred change agent spirits like Pete Hegseth to tear things down and build a better day anew. Pete knows the rot that has infested the DoD, because he was on the receiving end of it as a dirty boots infantryman. His books express the sort of radical reimagining of the DoD that is typical of all visionary change agents.
Will Pete Hegseth face intense bureaucratic resistance to the radical change that is so necessary to return our military to an effective warfighting force? Of course he will. Is his resume one that lacks experience in the entrenched Pentagon budget battles that everyone thinks are the defining characteristic of classic senior defense leadership? Yes it does.
I don’t care.
Radical change is necessary, and radical leadership choices are required to make that happen.
It will be a hard slog, and there will be defeats on the way to victory. But constructive radical change WILL happen, because I trust Donald Trump’s vision.
Let’s get behind that vision and make it work.
Too bad Trump couldn’t appoint the Senate Majority Leader. Then the GOP might have something like “Democracy” in the Senate, you know, Senators who ACTUALLY respond to the will of the people, who actually balance the budget, don’t risk WWIII by playing “Army” in other countries, who don’t rubber stamp Democrat prerogatives to the point where we have $35T in debut, and higher interest payments than the entire defense budget, and maybe, … just maybe … they keep a promise or two, like repealing Obamacare? (Foot note: On a fixed, mostly SS income, we can tally between 15% and 20% of our budget, owning to changes in Medicare and energy price increases, which don’t even begin to touch the inflation of the past four year. The GOP Senate has been a part of EVERY bit of that increase. Now we have more of the same? Why vote?! – at least why vote GOP for Senator. Idaho (my state) needs new alternatives to the GOP for Congress. The two Senators and two Congressmen are sold-out-GOP-RINO’s.)
Some few of these appointees require Senate confirmation.
I wonder if President Trump has selected very MAGA Republicans who, should they not get confirmed allow him to next nominate persons he’d be perfectly fine with, tho less strident to most observers.
Just a thought.
Most of his selections of Congresspeople seem to come from Florida, which should be able to replace them with Republicans. I worry about Stefanik, though.
I hope these picks are people that will clean out their respective departments. No more Vindman’s, no more leaks of phone calls with world leaders, no more spying. Democrats are most upset that they may lose their ability to infiltrate and disrupt. I hope and pray Trump can hold all that together.
Whom ever is selected by Trump will be opposed by the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and Gutter/Sewer Dwellers and other Liberal lower lifeforms
Watching the meltdowns from the Swamp, dems, and RINO’s has been entertaining. It also proves they are the right picks.