The next bumper sticker: political science

 As usual, Ramaswamy ' s glib slogans aren ' t self-explanatory, but I think we can figure out what he ' s pretending to be thinking about with this one:There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.One would guess that this is a reference to the bullshit concept of the " Deep State. " What that actually means is of course the career civil service -- federal employees who don ' t get replaced wholesale every time the party in power changes, and who have legal protections to make sure that doesn ' t happen. Sometimes it also includes the military. (Sometimes it ' s the Deep State that ' s persecuting Ronald Dump, sometimes it ' s Joe Biden personally. They want to have it both ways.) Some conservatives also rail against the " Administrative State, " which is more or less the same idea but with an emphasis on the regulatory and rulemaking process more than the people who carry it out. So here ' s the view from a guy with a master ' s degree in environmental policy and a doctorate in social policy. I know, that makes me less credible than the guy on the next barstool, because I ' m an elite who ' s laughing at you, but really I ' m not. I ' ve spent a lot of years reading and studying and yes, doing my own research by which I don ' t mean reading random nutcases on the Internet but actually collecting data from the real world and analyzing it. (This was mostly paid for by grants from the Deep State, in the interest of full disclosure.)The fact is the world ...
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