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While sympathetic to the cause of “deconstructing” the administrative state, Vance offered a more Caesarist alternative: “I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left…and turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.”

"De-Baathification", as it was called, was a disaster.

The Iraqi army was hastily disbanded, the sloppy de-Baathification of government institutions drove people away from a common project and into the hands of political entrepreneurs who spoke in terms of tribe and sect.

“And turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.”

“I wonder if you have thought through kind of how Republicans begin what someone on my team earlier today called de-Baathification of the Republican Party?”