Donald J. Devine

Donald J. Devine (born 1937) is an American political scientist, former government official, and conservative 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 wrote more than ten books on various libertarian conservative themes, and collaborated to Project 2025. Provided by Wikipedia