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Donald J. Devine

Donald J. Devine (born 1937) is an American political scientist and former government official, who has popularized fusionism as taught by Frank Meyer. He is associated to The Fund for American Studies and The Heritage Foundation. He is also a trustee of the Philadelphia Society.

Devine served as the Office of Personnel Management director of Ronald Reagan's first administration. During his tenure, he helped cut 100,000 federal jobs, and over $6 billion in benefits. He was labeled by ''The Washington Post'' as a "terrible swift sword of the civil service", by ''The New York Times'' as "the Grinch", and by ''Federal Times'' as the "Rasputin of the reduction in force".

Devine taught government and politics at the University of Maryland, and Western civilization at Bellevue University. He has written more than ten libertarian conservative books, and was a contributor to Project 2025. Provided by Wikipedia