What Changed Between Trump’s First and Second Term?
August 21, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn this clip from Project Cosmos: Executive Power and the Common Good, the panel explores why President Trump’s second term looks so dramatically different from his first.
The discussion covers:
-Why Trump’s first term stalled outside the Supreme Court
-How OMB planning in 2020 laid the groundwork for later reforms
-The role of loyal staffing and administrative culture in executing policy
-Why efficiency alone is not enough — “a more efficient bad thing is worse than an inefficient bad thing”
-How the post-BLM political context opened the door for repealing LBJ’s affirmative action order (EO 11246)
-The importance of building a government in waiting
This conversation sheds light on the deeper forces shaping the federal government — from personnel and policy to political context and executive power.
📺 Watch the full episode of Project CosmosExecutive Power and the Common Good here
Guests: Christopher Rufo, Patrick Deneen, Christopher Caldwell, Curtis Yarvin, moderated by Johnny Burtka (President of ISI).
#ProjectCosmos #ExecutivePower #Trump #AdministrativeState #CommonGood
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