Politics ain’t beanbag. With an agenda as bold as the Trump administration’s, there’s a crying need for competent officials. When it comes to pruning bureaucracy, rooting out waste, crafting tariff schedules, or planning military action, expertise helps. You want savvy bureaucrats rather than would-be influencers and well-meaning novices in key positions.
It’d be good for everyone if there were a deeper bench of Republican policy professionals who really knew how government works. That’s why it’s such a big problem that the nation’s public policy schools serve as owned-and-operated subsidiaries of the Democratic Party.
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Frederick M. Hess is director of educational policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here.
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