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石來民 Lutheran. Husband. Dad. Kentuckian. Demographer. @DemographicNTEL @FamStudies @AEI @NovakFellows . lymanrstone at gmail dot com

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    1. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

      Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 Retweeted Ross Douthat

      I think the GOP judicial strategy for the last 3 decades and the prominence of fights over SSM put the lie to the idea that social conservatives were quiet members of the coalition in the past.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1134651785094881281 …

      Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 added,

      Ross DouthatVerified account @DouthatNYT
      For a long time social conservatism imagined itself to be strong in the culture - a moral majority, even - while playing a dutiful role in a GOP coalition managed by the business wing. Now that it is weak in the culture, it may be trying to be strong where it can be strong.
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    2. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

      I think this all has a much simpler explanation: Few conservatives, including Sohrab, have any actual vision for governance. Outside of the courts, our movement has little competence to run an administration, little bench of expertise, no idea of what to do with power.

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    3. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

      This shows up in the staffing troubles that face every GOP administration. You either hire wishy washy folks who aren’t really on board with the vision, or you leave key positions vacant for years and are hamstrung.

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    4. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

      The actual problem facing the GOP is that even when it has power it legitimately doesn’t have any idea what to do with it. Witness TCJA as a great example of this.

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      Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

      The place where conservatives have had the most success, the courts and to a lesser extent some economic policy, also happen to be the places where elite conservative institutions have cultivated actual talent for managing an actual government.

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        2. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          But the reality is that outside those narrow ranges, conservatives would prefer to debate the esoteric question of who is truly conservative than do the yeoman’s work of learning to master the state.

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        3. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          At every level of the conservative movement, we are abundant in commentary but not in core competencies of governance. That’s the root of this whole debate: inability to formulate an actual coherent plan of government.

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        4. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          Nature abhors a vacuum, and so you get this weird thing where Catholic integralista try to claim the Trumpian mantle to entirely uncertain ends. But it’s all litigated at a very high volume.

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        5. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          So to expand on this let me give you an anecdote. I did the Koch Associate Program (KAP). KAP recruits like 100 right-leaning or libertarian young professionals every year and subsidizes their placement in right-leaning orgs.

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        6. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          It also requires the participants to gather for one day a week for management training. But here’s the reality. Most placed people were in fundraising. Probably less than 25% of us were in any role where we were actually touching policy questions.

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        7. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          And of those, the vast majority were at orgs that did a lot of online publication and very little actual policy work. There was literally no effort at any level to train these cohorts *to actually be in government*.

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        8. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          Gajillions of dollars are spent each year on this program to incubate rightist talent. Like 90% of it is spent on philosophical discussions of Hayek, donor correspondence, or “management training” using models that you can’t implement in nonprofits.

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        9. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          KAP is one example of the ridiculous structuring of right wing talent management. But it just blows my mind that so many internships have “reading lists” that include literally zero texts offering practical accounts of actual governance.

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        10. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          Young conservatives are recruited, paid, and socially pressured to believe that the best thing they can do for the movement is send donor emails, read a sophomore philosophy curriculum, and go to happy hours to complain about the libs.

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        11. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          Now look, I’m sure the left has a lot of dysfunction too. OTOH, many lefty folks get their big break actually working in government, or actually helping organize popular movements. And culturally, their orgs prioritize being good at government.

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        12. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          Now look I get it: conservatives want to reduce the size of the state. But you don’t go boar-hunting without a spear. You don’t step into the arena without training. Conservatives envision this all-consuming state that crushes liberty and then assume a reading list will beat it.

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        13. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          What conservative talent management programs should actually do is use their resources to push young rightists to develop specialties in actual areas of governance. As Federalist Soc did for the judiciary, so we must do for the whole state.

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        14. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          We should be training young conservatives not to right the beast commentary essay but to be able to walk into a DHHS office on day 1 of a new administration and accomplish the conservative administration’s objectives.

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        15. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          Instead we have a situation where the Trump Adminisyration has the worst losing record in court of any President ever.... and the vast majority of his defeats... Are due to noncompliance with the ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT. It’s just plain old fashion incompetence, folks.

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        16. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          The Trump Admin is NOT mostly losing cases due to like equal protection or some ideological thing, but because the Admin’s staff is so phenomenally bad at their jobs that they can’t manage to write a basic regulation without screwing up the legally required process.

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        17. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          This is largely because the Trump Administration has refused to hire 1) anyone who ever said anything not awesome about Trump, 2) anyone who doesn’t fit exactly with their ideology. 1) is stupid. But 2) actually makes sense. Problem is, that bench ain’t deep!

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        18. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          You cannot win a war without mid-level officers. You cannot run a government, heck you cannot SHRINK a government, without competent officials.

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        19. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 31 May 2019

          The question we should encourage young right-leaning folks to ask themselves is: next time we win, is there ANY actual function of government I would be competent to step in and run? What specific function? And what do I think should be done with it?

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        20. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 1 Jun 2019

          I would like to note that in my tenure at USDA, I successfully identified multiple errors in regulatory implementation. When fixed, in my time at USDA, I and one other colleague together prevented over $350 million in unjustified spending over my 3.5 years.

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        21. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 1 Jun 2019

          I’m real darn proud of that. And that’s just stuff I know I can take credit for. I was on several advisory bodies as well where I cannot take credit for all outcomes. But in general, I looked for ways to not spend taxpayer money frivolously, and succeeded in a grand scale.

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        22. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 1 Jun 2019

          But that can only happen if there are conservatives actually learning the skills of government, the institutional jujitsu of the state, and using that mastery to *make a difference.* Oh, a colleague and I also killed 2 big trade disputes before they left the building.

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        23. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 1 Jun 2019

          Which is to say: having passionate conservatives in government can make a difference. We should tell young conservatives that! And also IMHO I should have gotten a bounty for finding the excess spending and correcting it.

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