{"id":17824,"date":"2025-10-14T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=17824"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:06:56","slug":"der-krieg-des-donald-t-wie-ein-praesident-den-staat-zerlegt-und-das-chaos-regiert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/der-krieg-des-donald-t-wie-ein-praesident-den-staat-zerlegt-und-das-chaos-regiert\/","title":{"rendered":"The War of Donald T. \u2013 How a President Dismantles the State and Governs Through Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington these days resembles a besieged palace. In the corridors of the White House, where strategies were once forged, now reigns the silence of an administrative corpse. No budget, no trust, no sense of proportion. Only a president who has turned paralysis into the tool of his power. Donald Trump calls it order, others call it destruction - and perhaps both are true. This is no ordinary shutdown. It is a war, fought with memos and dismissal letters, orchestrated by a president who has transformed his budget office into a kind of internal tribunal. The agency that once monitored numbers now decides over people: who gets paid, who loses their job, who belongs to the system and who does not. \u201cThe grim reaper,\u201d Trump calls his budget chief Russ Vought - and rarely has a metaphor so precisely captured the nature of a government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Office of Management and Budget has been instructed to \u201cbatten down the hatches.\u201d In the corridors, a new slogan circulates, officially confirmed via social media post: \u201cPay the troops, pay law enforcement, continue the RIFs, and wait.\u201d Pay the soldiers, pay the police, cut the rest - and wait. It is a sentence that sounds as if it were chiseled in stone, a mantra of a state devouring itself. As the paralysis enters its third week, the lists of those dismissed continue to grow. Scientists, teachers, social workers, administrative lawyers - all whose work does not fit Trump\u2019s worldview. What remains are the army and the deportation agency, guns and border fences. In the ministries, the dismissal letters pile up like dead flies on stacks of files. More than 750,000 federal employees are affected - a mass experiment in administrative demolition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump enjoys the sight. He speaks of cutting \u201cthe deep roots of bureaucracy,\u201d and by that he means the remnants of institutional reason. Vought, architect of the ultraconservative \u201cProject 2025,\u201d calls it reform. In truth, it is the systematic disassembly of the state - not through laws but through payrolls. Those who are paid live. Those who are not, disappear. In front of the budget office building, where civil servants and employees have gathered, stands Senator Chris Van Hollen. \u201cTrump and Vought are using this moment to terrorize these people,\u201d he shouts into the crowd. His voice echoes off the glass fa\u00e7ade behind which the new power center of America sits - unremarkable but lethally efficient. \u201cIt\u2019s a lie,\u201d he says, \u201ca big, fat lie.\u201d But the lie now works faster than the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shutdown, now in its 14th day, is no longer a budget crisis - it is a creed. Trump has turned the state into a reflection of his ideology: militarily strong, socially amputated, legally deaf. He has turned a political instrument into a ritual. The government, once a guarantor of order, has become a stage where arbitrariness wins the applause. Russ Vought, a man with the stoic expression of an accountant and the mission of a zealot, is Trump\u2019s tool and amplifier. In his hands, budget law becomes a weapon. He speaks of \u201cefficiency,\u201d but what he means is erasure. In one draft, it is proposed that laid-off employees shall have no right to back pay after the shutdown ends - a break with decades of precedent, a slap in the face for hundreds of thousands of families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the lives of civil servants are on hold, Trump\u2019s parallel state runs at full speed. The military is now receiving its pay on time. Homeland Security remains fully funded. The money for mass deportations continues to flow - drawn from those \u201cavailable funds\u201d of the so-called \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill,\u201d a law that sounds like a Trump quote and works exactly like one: loud, imprecise, and dangerous. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, speaks of \u201cinnovative solutions\u201d to pay the Coast Guard. She smiles as if the crisis were a marketing opportunity. \u201cThanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill,\u201d she says, \u201cno hero of the Coast Guard will miss a paycheck.\u201d Not a word about nurses, researchers, or parents whose incomes are frozen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, who never leaves a stage unused, has adorned Vought\u2019s new role with a manufactured hero myth. An AI-generated video shows the budget chief in a black robe, scythe over his shoulder, set to Don\u2019t Fear the Reaper. \u201cEvery authoritarian leader has his grim reaper,\u201d says Democrat Steny Hoyer. \u201cRussell Vought is Donald Trump\u2019s.\u201d And while Hoyer speaks, a grotesque parody of democracy plays out in the halls of Congress: Republicans refuse to convene, Democrats fail to reach majorities. House Speaker Mike Johnson simply nods. \u201cThey have every right to move the funds around,\u201d he says, as if it were pocket change. If the Democrats want to sue - \u201cbring it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n