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"Multiple people now literally have the wealth of nations, or at least that of large government agencies. No wonder public policy is in shambles."
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At a fundamental level, they’re just hostile to the idea of expertise in any domain, in pretty much every agency where there’s something to know, where there’s technical stuff that you need to know to make good decisions. The people who actually know things, or the people who are willing to speak up about what they know, have been silenced, purged.
18 August
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these decisions are extraordinarily federated. There isn't just like one or two people in the White House who decide something.
7 August
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we've both come to believe that when transformation fails repeatedly, it's time for something different, and one of the tools that leaders need to add to their tool belts (and probably use a lot more frequently than they do today), is starting fresh, creating new entities (agencies and departments, for example) and either endowing them with new authorities or transferring authorities from legacy institutions to the new ones.
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There is suddenly political will and leadership on these issues, which makes change now possible, but the administrative state is not going to reform itself.
30 June
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