Francis Wilkinson, Columnist

Bannon's Requiem for the Administrative State

The health-care debacle exposed the contradictions of Trump's promises to his voters.

March 27, 2017 at 6:41 PM UTC

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone.

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Is the demise of a rushed, poorly crafted, ill-considered, wrong-headed and politically toxic health-care bill good or bad for the "administrative state"?

I only ask because White House strategist Stephen Bannon proclaimed at a conference of conservatives in February that the "deconstruction of the administrative state" is his goal.