Project 2025: "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise"

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

This what Norquist meant by shrinking government in order to drown it in the bathtub. This drive to do away with the administrative state has been going on a long time. Regardless of what they're calling it now.

Richard Cheney posited the unitary executive thinking after the Nixon years - in defense of Nixon and his actions, of course. As Ford's chief of staff, Cheney worked to do away with any safe-guards placed on presidential power after Nixon. Reagan also claimed certain rights as the unitary executive, using that exact phrase. Though that was not the first time the term was used.

Shrub was in favor of the unitary executive as well. As were the authors of the Torture Memos, but Duh, right?