The next president must reimagine, not just restore, the administrative state

The next president must reimagine, not just restore, the administrative state

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently addressed the issue of what happens after the Trump administration’s assault on America’s administrative state is over. The work needed to restore the country’s governing capacity, he argued, involves more than just putting the bureaucratic Humpty Dumpty back together again.  The next president can’t “go around and just find all the little bits and pieces of everything that they smashed and…