Imagine if Kamala Harris becomes president. Some people might think that things will actually run better than when Joe Biden was in charge because she’s even stupider than he was and won’t attempt to run anything at all and so the “geniuses” in charge of the deep state will manage all the decisions of the federal government and everything will be coordinated to the nth degree.
And maybe to some extent this will be true. But I don’t think the various bureaucracies of the federal government can be allowed to run their little satraps indefinitely without supervision by someone who understands reality. I’m imagining the State Department and the CIA explaining to Harris that it’s going to be necessary to return to Afghanistan to prevent homophobia and transphobia from threatening the LGBTQ population there. And Kamala would immediately approve of such a plan. Or suppose the EPA talks her into banning fossil fuels altogether. Or the Justice Department easily convinces her that reparations for slavery to the tune of $45 trillion dollars can no longer wait. You can see how having a complete moron as president could lead to extremely unfortunate decisions being made.
This kind of analysis goes along with the accelerationist theory for destabilizing the current regime. Specifically, if the terrible people in charge of the Left are allowed to follow their inclinations without a brake from the Right, eventually they’ll damage the system so much that it will cease to function. I think this is a simplistic version of how things will go but essentially it is correct. This is what happens in a blue state like Massachusetts for instance. The Democrats will assume complete control of the legislature, governor’s mansion and the courts and they will run hog wild and vote themselves anything and everything. And then they go broke and everything stops working. And they will vote a Republican governor in to fix the budget and return at least a modicum of sanity to the state government. And of course, a Massachusetts “Republican” means William Weld or Mitt Romney. Basically, they’re middle of the road Democrats anywhere else. And as soon as this Republican has balanced the budget he is immediately cast into the outer darkness and replaced by a lunatic lesbian who wants to fund on-demand gender affirming surgery for toddlers and cradle to grave benefits for illegal aliens.
So the problem is how to avoid the return to power by the Democrats? I think part of the answer is to take a page from Milei’s book. Radically reducing the size of the federal government would reduce the power and control of the deep state. And it would make policies that favor private sector job creation critical. Of course, most of these laid off bureaucrats will be at a distinct disadvantage in the real world of the private section but I’m sure a few of them will survive. So, it would be a win/win, sort of.
But I’m not trying to paint the accelerationist model as a pain free scenario. In order to get to a place where a solid majority would be willing to let the Right have their way, there will have to be economic chaos unleashed on our society, the like of which hasn’t been seen for over a century. We’re talking 30% unemployment or runaway hyperinflation. That kind of stuff. So, shock therapy. Anything less than that will be tolerated by the schlubs who now populate this sad benighted world we live in.
I’ll be honest. Having this be the path forward is a pretty depressing plan. But I now doubt anything less will shock this nation out of its addiction to infantile socialism. So that’s my pep talk!