The mass deportations have begun! (Not yet at the border, but closer to D.C.)

After installing prominent karaoke singer Lara Trump as co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Donald Trump’s team lost no time pushing out around 60 party apparatchiks.

The reason for the removals, according to Politico, is that among Trump folks who have yet to be stabbed in the back themselves, the MAGA feelz have determined the RNC has become “bloated and bureaucratic.”

That very well may be true, but the story here isn’t about the inner workings of the RNC so much as it is about the act of creative destruction Trump and his minions promise to scale up—from the RNC to the entirety of the federal government—should he be elected to a second term.

I’m being a bit generous when I describe the Trump platform as “creative” destruction, because the fact of the matter is, he’s really only promised the destructive part. That includes the dismantling of federal agencies, blanket dismissals of vast swaths of the federal workforce who do not demonstrate sufficient loyalty, blowing up our alliances, alongside the usual monetary conflagrations incurred by somebody facing the legal debts from nearly 100 federal charges.

Any creativity in the 2024 Trump platform is the creativity of the bomb builder.

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