Theres recently been a lot of speculation about just that kind of scenario. But we dont have to actually imagine because Something Like that has happened before in july offo 1981. Heres the headline. Reagan reversing many u. S. Policies. The New York Times reported the reaganli administration has set about accomplishing a sweeping reversal of policy and practice in the way the government deals with business and individual citizens. In key cabinet and regulatory posts the reagan transformation amounts to a revolution of attitude involving the appointment of officials who in previous administrations might have been ruled out over concern of lack of interest or open or ostilt to the mission of the agencies theyhe now lead. Sounds familiar. President reagan embarked on what you might call the first modern purge of the administrative state, filling the federal government with young conservative zealots who were looking to carry out a radical newo agenda. And nowhere was that more evident th
places that you wouldn t have been able to lead yourself like i started thinking about things like and it s in the book when i was younger, when we were just a few years younger, when people would have a faux pas, they misspeak, they would write a letter of apology that saidte if anyone wasr offended, i apologize. nowe. they say if anyone was affected, we apologize and offended is on you. c that just means you couldn t take a joke or you re too a uptight. up but affected means we did something to you. so think about just the use of the word offended as we heardwi growing up and up until recently versus affected and affected means we have to change. that means you must be fired. you must be removed for your job affecting offendingop people. hey dude, lighten up, get a sense of humor. smart language changes imperceptibly, but the effects