President Trump, by Scaling Back the Federal Bureaucracy, Cuts the Gordian Knot
Even the greatest conservative leader of recent decades, President Reagan, worked to create the conservative side of the establishment — not to take apart the establishment itself.
The best explanation of President Trump’s aggressive strategy can be found in ancient Greece. Like Alexander the Great, Mr. Trump is cutting the Gordian knot.
According to legend, in Phrygia (in what is now Turkey) an oxcart was held together by a complex knot. No one could untie it. An oracle prophesized that whoever could loose the kno…