The Heritage Foundation has been issuing its doorstop-length “Mandate for Leadership” books since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. But this is the first one that has inflamed The New York Times into painting it as a manual for autocracy.
On the March 8 edition of PBS’s Washington Week With The Atlantic, moderator Jeffrey “Obama Is Awesome” Goldberg cued up Times book reviewer Carlos Lozada to discuss his article “What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump’s Second Term.”
What surely delighted Goldberg was Lozada’s hot take. The Heritage book is “not about anything as simplistic as being dictator for a day, but about consolidating authority and eroding accountability for the long haul.”
Here’s what is unsaid. Conservatives would like to impose more political appointees on the executive branch because they feel the…
