coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.

The supposedly objective public servants are actually more partisan hacks than they were two

generations ago. Without some cleansing of the department of the administrative state, you know,

competent government that allows planes to take off and land

safely will suffer. And part of making bureaucracy more accountable is transferring functions to the

states. But the states might have the same problem, and they're going to have to, like,

do some of the same stuff.

Cleansing bureaucracies every generation or two is really necessary to make, to keep them competent.

And so, you know, when the administrative state, when the civil service was established, there was

always a worry that it would be like an aristocratic faction within this otherwise Republican

people.

And, you know, that has happened.

It is now an unaccountable, somewhat aristocratic clack within our country.

And for the first time, someone is intentionally

trying to be in accountability to that clack.

The I'm Well, welcome everyone once again to this now the final installment of the Cincinnati

series, a special podcast and vidcast series here at the Claremont Institute under the auspices

of our normal channel for the American Minds

podcast. But we wanted to continue this series or conclude this series with some discussions

about how legislators in red states or maybe even purple states can think through some of the

major issues. I'm your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute

and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books

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