“The specific deficiencies of the federal bureaucracy – size, levels of organization, inefficiency, expense, and lack of responsiveness to political leadership – are rooted in the progressive ideology that unelected experts can and should be trusted to promote the general welfare in just about every area of social life.”
Citation: Project 2025, Section 1.3: Central Personnel Agencies: Managing the Bureaucracy, Donald Devine, Dennis Dean Kirk, and Paul Dans, page 115, paragraph 3
Context:
They’ve brought it back full-circle here to the idea that the government contains far too many experts in their fields and not nearly enough partisan loyalists. They’re attributing this to “progressive ideology” rather than simply common sense.
Full contextual analysis of Section 1.3: Central Personnel Agencies: The Bureaucracy here.