Episode 7 — America’s Defection Cascade Scenario and the Grim Trigger Strategy
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There is a rhythm to history and we’ve spent some time over 6 previous episodes focused on the comparison between Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, his rise to power, and Donald Trump’s MAGA administration.
If you’ve followed you’ll know there is more than a fleeting comparison. The structural similarity is the definitive roadmap for understanding modern autocracy. It shifts the focus away from superficial political theater and places it at the unsexy procedural place of state apparatus.
What the National Socialists of Germany, the Nazi’s, called Gleichschaltung (synchronization) in 1933, the modern American populist movement executes under the banners of unitary executive theory, Project 2025 blueprints, and the systematic deconstruction of the administrative state.
By looking closely at the events of 2025 and mid-2026, we can see exactly how this administrative colonization is being carried out across specific United States departments. It is not occurring via sweeping legislative transformations, but through an intricate web of Executive Orders, Reductions in Force (RIFs), and administrative reclassifications designed to trade professional competence for absolute ideological obedience.
Starting with the Office of Personnel Management, the OPM and the Office of Management and Budget, the OMB.
To dismantle the independent civil service, the White House first had to capture and weaponize the agencies that dictate federal employment and budgetary rules.
January 28, 2025 Trump issued Executive Order 14171, creating a new excepted-service job classification called Schedule Policy/Career (Schedule P/C). This is the direct, evolved successor to his first term's aborted Schedule F, targeting any career, non-political federal job deemed to be confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating. ON February 12 2025 Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Charles Ezell issued a sweeping directive instructing all federal agencies to immediately dismiss probationary employees - those with less than a year of service. The directive commanded agencies to state that the worker's performance was inadequate without citing any evidence, bypassing traditional civil service evaluation metrics.
When William Shirer walked through the ministries of Berlin in 1933, he didn’t find a state shattered by bombs; he found a state hollowed out by clerks. Under the banner of Gleichschaltung, the Nazis realized that if you control the personnel, the laws don't matter.
Thus Project 2025’s main engine — internal evisceration — not external revolution.
Just as in 1933, competence has been demoted to a secondary trait, replaced entirely by absolute ideological obedience. The state hasn't been overthrown; it has been colonized from within.
But if you want to see the true masterpiece of this modern administrative colonization, look at the Department of Education. For decades, the populist right promised to abolish it. But they didn't need a vote in Congress to do it. By May of 2026, they simply unbolted the building from the inside.
So how does this end - with a bang or a whimper?
Because dear friends, end it shall - so let’s see where we’re likely to be going.
Hitler died after shooting his new wife in the head on a spring day in Berlin in 1945, then chewed down on a cyanide capsule while simultaneously shooting himself. He had already poisoned his favourite dog, thus taking those closest to him along for his final ride into fires of Hades. If you believe that sort of thing.
What will happen to Trump?
Here are a few scenarios - a few possibilities. This episode will eventually be overcome by time, the future will have passed but I want to place on record what history determines as the likeliest trajectories America will take.
If you’ve followed you’ll know there is more than a fleeting comparison. The structural similarity is the definitive roadmap for understanding modern autocracy. It shifts the focus away from superficial political theater and places it at the unsexy procedural place of state apparatus.
What the National Socialists of Germany, the Nazi’s, called Gleichschaltung (synchronization) in 1933, the modern American populist movement executes under the banners of unitary executive theory, Project 2025 blueprints, and the systematic deconstruction of the administrative state.
By looking closely at the events of 2025 and mid-2026, we can see exactly how this administrative colonization is being carried out across specific United States departments. It is not occurring via sweeping legislative transformations, but through an intricate web of Executive Orders, Reductions in Force (RIFs), and administrative reclassifications designed to trade professional competence for absolute ideological obedience.
Starting with the Office of Personnel Management, the OPM and the Office of Management and Budget, the OMB.
To dismantle the independent civil service, the White House first had to capture and weaponize the agencies that dictate federal employment and budgetary rules.
January 28, 2025 Trump issued Executive Order 14171, creating a new excepted-service job classification called Schedule Policy/Career (Schedule P/C). This is the direct, evolved successor to his first term's aborted Schedule F, targeting any career, non-political federal job deemed to be confidential, policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating. ON February 12 2025 Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Charles Ezell issued a sweeping directive instructing all federal agencies to immediately dismiss probationary employees - those with less than a year of service. The directive commanded agencies to state that the worker's performance was inadequate without citing any evidence, bypassing traditional civil service evaluation metrics.
When William Shirer walked through the ministries of Berlin in 1933, he didn’t find a state shattered by bombs; he found a state hollowed out by clerks. Under the banner of Gleichschaltung, the Nazis realized that if you control the personnel, the laws don't matter.
Thus Project 2025’s main engine — internal evisceration — not external revolution.
Just as in 1933, competence has been demoted to a secondary trait, replaced entirely by absolute ideological obedience. The state hasn't been overthrown; it has been colonized from within.
But if you want to see the true masterpiece of this modern administrative colonization, look at the Department of Education. For decades, the populist right promised to abolish it. But they didn't need a vote in Congress to do it. By May of 2026, they simply unbolted the building from the inside.
So how does this end - with a bang or a whimper?
Because dear friends, end it shall - so let’s see where we’re likely to be going.
Hitler died after shooting his new wife in the head on a spring day in Berlin in 1945, then chewed down on a cyanide capsule while simultaneously shooting himself. He had already poisoned his favourite dog, thus taking those closest to him along for his final ride into fires of Hades. If you believe that sort of thing.
What will happen to Trump?
Here are a few scenarios - a few possibilities. This episode will eventually be overcome by time, the future will have passed but I want to place on record what history determines as the likeliest trajectories America will take.
