Slaying the Leviathan: Seven Steps to Restore the Republic

Let’s be honest with ourselves: We’re not going to vote our way out of this mess by sending another empty suit to Congress with a list of talking points, a donor-funded smile and a backbone of jelly.

The problem isn’t just bad policy or partisan overreach. The problem is structural. Systemic. Existential.

We are ruled—not governed—by a vast, unelected bureaucracy.

A Leviathan with no face, no term limit, and no accountability in which elections come and go but the Administrative State remains.

And until we break it, we will never be free again.

This is not just a diagnosis. It’s a war plan. And we need one.

So let’s talk solutions.

1. Reclaim Congressional Authority—Or Shut It Down

Congress created this mess by un Constitutionally sub-delegating its legislative powers to the unelected bureaucrats in the Article II executive agencies, and then, insult to injury, actually funding those same bureaucrats to do the governing while rejecting oversight and accountability. If we want to reverse the rot, it starts with Congress actually showing the political courage to take that power back.

Here’s how:

• Pass legislation explicitly reclaiming delegated rulemaking authority from federal agencies.

• Mandate that all major regulatory decisions be voted on by Congress—or they don’t exist.

• Stop blindly funding these departments and agencies.

And if the bureaucrats won’t play ball? Shut down the agencies. Don’t pass their budgets. Force a standoff.

The American people should not be held hostage by unelected paper-pushers with god complexes.

2. Mass Layoffs and Attrition

This will make some squirm, but it needs to be said plainly:We need to fire hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

The Administrative State is not just policy—it’s personnel. Careerists who believe they are the rightful rulers of this country. They don’t fear elections. They don’t answer to the people. And they don’t leave unless they’re forced out.

So force them out.

• Reinstate Schedule F to strip job protections from politicized bureaucrats.

• Abolish entire agencies—starting with the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the IRS, and the ATF.

• Institute a hiring freeze, followed by attrition through retirement and buyouts.

This is a numbers game. Fewer bureaucrats = less tyranny. Then make the bureaucrats that remain bend the knee to the duly elected representatives of the American people.

3. Defund and Deplatform the Leviathan

Every bloated agency runs on two things: money and narrative.

We have to take away both.

• Slash budgets. Start with the the Department of Education, HUD, EPA, FBI, and DOJ.

• Zero out discretionary spending for “climate equity,” “gender studies,” and every other Marxist grift.

• Ban government coordination with tech companies to censor speech or manipulate elections.

• Investigate and expose coordination between federal agencies and legacy media outlets.

If they want to propagandize the American people, they can do it without your tax dollars.

4. Decentralize or Die

Washington, D.C. was never supposed to be the center of your life. That was the entire point of federalism.

We need to return power to states, to counties, to individuals.

• Block-grant federal programs back to the states—with no strings attached.

• Encourage states to refuse cooperation with unconstitutional federal mandates.

• Reassert 10th Amendment rights to nullify federal overreach.

The Founders gave us a system of diffused and distributed power. It’s time we restore it and start using it again.

5. Build Parallel Infrastructure

Don’t just reform the old system. Replace it.

• Build parallel institutions—media, finance, education—that don’t depend on woke capital or federal approval.

• Develop alternative legal frameworks through state compacts and interstate agreements.

• Create a new ecosystem of schools, credit unions, internet services, and civil society that reflect American—not bureaucratic—values.

This is not just a political fight. It’s a cultural one. The regime cannot survive if we refuse to feed it.

6. Reform the Presidency or Don’t Bother Running

Any Republican running for president in 2028 must have one central mission:Dismantle the administrative state and restoring representative government.

That means:

• Using the full power of the executive branch to remove disloyal or rogue officials.

• Prioritizing constitutionalists for DOJ, FBI, DHS, and every major agency.

• Refusing to “manage” the bureaucracy and instead waging open war on it.

The next president must treat the federal bureaucracy like a hostile foreign power.

Because it is.

7. Change the Mindset

Finally, and most importantly: the American people must stop accepting this as normal.

Stop tolerating the surveillance.

Stop shrugging at censorship.

Stop accepting the rule of the bureaucrat.

Stop believing the lie that this is “just how things work.”

It’s not.

This isn’t America.

And we don’t have to live like this.

We must revive the revolutionary spirit of 1776—the belief that power flows from the people and must answer to the people, not the other way around.

That government is our servant, not our master.

That tyranny—no matter how subtle, how bureaucratic, how bloodless—must be destroyed.

This is the way forward.

This is the mission.

This is the solution.

Not to trim the Leviathan’s claws.

But to cut off its head and tear it into a million pieces. 

Let’s get to work.