Dr. Mark Moyar
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first heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, and of course it also ignores, largely ignores class privileges if every white male works on Wall Street and drives a Porsche and everyone else is impoverished and cursed. No, that's untrue. And obviously, this is one of the big reasons Donald Trump got elected, because Americans saw through this sort of political correct DEI ideology.
And especially the working class realized that, in fact, people are disadvantaged for lots of different reasons, most of which are not covered by DEI.
Yeah, that's an excellent question. I think the closest parallel we have really is Andrew Jackson. And it's fascinating. We teach an American history course here at Hillsdale, and we have students read Andrew Jackson. And one of the things Jackson talks a lot about is how the bureaucracy, career government officials become corrupt. They become self-serving.
And so he wanted to limit the amount of time they could serve. And so I think that's a point we've now returned to. It's not the only one. And obviously, government's much bigger now than it was in his day. But some of these problems are new. People have pointed out even Bill Clinton, when he came in 1993, recognized that you had bloated government and he cut hundreds of thousands.
of jobs and so the idea that it's fundamentally new is is i think largely mistaken i mean i do think you have very high level of distrust in the government but that's against something we've we've seen before i do think it's going to be a challenge to try to bring americans together in the the biden administration i think also the obama administrations were among the most divisive And you...
Americans are now divided against each other. And then you have, when Trump comes in, the people who were doing sort of the most dividing now are crying foul and things are getting worse.
So I do think we will need some period at some point where people will get along better and we don't have this phenomenon we have where people don't want to be friends with other people simply because they belong to the wrong political party.
Yeah, I think it's going to be tough. And I think the left, to a large degree, has kind of invited this on themselves because they've been, and when they've been in power, they have really been the ones, I think, who have tried to make politics the center of everything and to assume they know all and therefore anybody else must be evil in some way who doesn't.
And that has created great support for Donald Trump because he's been willing to push back on that. And you've got lots of other people now feel aggrieved because they have been the victim of this left-wing intolerance.
Yeah, certainly you can see a lot of the Wilsonian concepts that basically you need this expertise, bureaucratic expertise, and they're going to solve everything because, of course, experts are very smart and they don't have any biases, which of course has been disproven time and again. I think one thing that could help move us past is if we move ahead with this
sharp paring down of government, I do think what you're going to see is that most of what government does will still work. Now, I think people right now are worried that they're cutting so much that it's going to destroy things. But I can tell you, I was...
at usa during a shutdown when most of the employees were not allowed to work and a lot of the you know stuff most important stuff was still getting done and uh you know i said there's good people in government there's a lot of people who aren't pulling their weight and so you know i think if americans see that in fact we can save a bunch of money by you know removing it shrinking the workforce and i think also dealing with other forms of corruption i think you know entitlement
corruption is a huge problem too that should save us huge amounts of money. I think that maybe will get us back to a place where there's more consensus.
Well, the most popular program with Congress is what's called PEPFAR. And that is a program to give drugs to people in poor countries to keep them from dying of AIDS. And so that has actually been granted. The Trump administration has, I think, generally been okay with that. And so that program I think is likely to continue. There are some things that are actually very much in our interests.
When we have health programs that will help us identify diseases in foreign countries before they come over here, or we have programs that will help us detect whether people are trying to come here illegally. And also when we're trying to
Yeah, one thing to keep in mind is that this country was created in a way to restrict the authority of anyone, and that includes the president. So the things the White House is trying to do now are running into opposition from both Congress and the courts. And I think inherently there is value to that. I think...
We don't want to allow one person to do everything they want because we may sympathize with that person now, but tomorrow it could be somebody with very different motives. So I think that is going to put some serious constraints. I will say, actually, I've been surprised at how fast they've been able to move, especially with Doge. I think they...
Probably figured they would try to get a lot of this done before Congress and the courts could even react. And they have done a lot.
But I think we're going to see in the next at least year and probably more that you're going to have courts and Congress battling with the executive branch over these things like getting rid of bureaucrats, whether the executive branch can just refuse to spend money that Congress has authorized.
Yeah, I don't think there's probably anything that would be unfixable. I do think there'll be some short-term pain that... may be unnecessary. Whether you can avoid that, I'm not sure. But there's companies... You can't.
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