This has been the (largely) conservative playbook for decades, at least since the religious right took over, it’s just being borne out in a much more direct way. The old model was “claim that public institution X is bloated/corrupt/ineffective/evil and replace it with private company Y”. The current admin has done away with any table dressing and just flat-out collapsed entire departments - the furloughs, replacing department heads or essentially forcing them to step down on moral grounds, gutting and stacking the justice system, DOGE…this has all been synonymous with the right’s playbook for a long time.