TRUMPIANS LIKE TO SAY DESANTIS IS DEEP STATE CONTROLLED…BUT…DOESN’T LOOK LIKE IT…DOES IT ?

Earlier this week, Real Clear Politics ran a story headlined, “EXCLUSIVE: The DeSantis Plan To Wage War on ‘Weaponized’ DOJ.”

The article reported Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been working for months on plans to tear down and rebuild both the Department of Justice and the FBI, consulting with experts and members of Congress to develop a “Day One” strategy for de-weaponizing the justice system.

Apparently Governor DeSantis has recognized the importance of the Sisyphean job of presenting a coherent, believable plan for how the criminal syndicate inside the U.S government can be brought to heel, if not completely surgically exised. The Governor is consulting with experts, such as Steven Bradbury of the Heritage Foundation and Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, among others.

According to Real Clear Politics, the Governor has privately told his advisors he plans to hire and fire large numbers of federal personnel, reorganize entire agencies, and execute a “disciplined” and “relentless” strategy to restore the Justice Department to a mission more in line with what the “Founding Fathers envisioned.”

The article said that DeSantis has assembled a “brain trust of academics, members of Congress, and former administration officials” to design step-by-step blueprints for tearing the dysfunctional DOJ and FBI down and then building them back up again properly.

It’s not just a random idea floating around in the Governor’s head:

There have been regular conference calls, detailed memos, and at least one policy retreat in Tallahassee earlier this year. The work is ongoing because their enemy, the so-called “deep state,” is vast. Their aim is nothing short of crippling it once and for all. A key feature of the emerging plan: Move fast. Don’t wait on Congress.
Examples offered in the article include: relocating FBI headquarters out of Washington DC, eliminating and consolidating the agency’s general counsel, public affairs, and government relations offices with existing divisions in the DOJ, and “beefing up” the field offices over headquarters.

This is a critical issue, fraught with potential political pitfalls. I commend the Governor for taking it on. It reminds me of how, during the pandemic, Governor DeSantis repeatedly assembled panels of heterodox experts to advise him on covid policy, allowing him to circumnavigate media’s political “not following the science” icebergs.

During the pandemic, DeSantis was the only governor who saw a way to snake through the deep state’s bureaucracy — and best of all, it was effective. I’m glad he’s now tackling disassembling the Deep State, and that he’s not hiding the details until he gets elected.

Let’s get a plan out there!

(PS — I’ve run plenty of pro-Trump stories this week and will keep doing that. Please be patient when I also run important news from the Governor’s side. I’m not endorsing either gentleman, and I won’t criticize them either. When either one does something helpful or newsworthy, I’ll let you know about it.)