Posted on 02/04/2025 12:25:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
No president in history has caused more damage to the nation more quickly. As we enter Week 3 of President Donald Trump’s second term, the chaos and disruption of his first look quaint by comparison. The country survived Trump 1. Now, it faces a real threat that the harm he inflicts during his second term will be irreparable. The United States’ standing in the world, its ability to keep the country safe, the federal government’s fundamental capacity to operate effectively — all of these will take years to repair, if that can be achieved at all.
This column will concentrate on the third piece of that trifecta: efforts to undermine the basic functioning of government. A unifying theme of much of Trump’s activity since Jan. 20 has been his unrelenting and broadscale assault on the federal workforce. In his first term, Trump railed about what he termed the “deep state” and its seeming ability to frustrate his plans. In his second, he has unleashed a no-holds-barred attack on career employees — one designed to punish those who dared to counter him or his allies; to oust or neuter those with years of expertise; and to set the stage for a new spoils system, replacing seasoned, nonpartisan career workers with compliant Trump loyalists.
“[Trump] is destroying whatever gets in the way of what he wants to do,” Max Stier, the normally mild-mannered president of the Partnership for Public Service, told me. “That includes having loyalty be the primary screen for choosing his direct lieutenants and crushing the civil service and converting it into a tool for his private agenda, as opposed to a force for the public good and the rule of law.”
Contempt for civil servants — sneering at “unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.” — is not...
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... and it is working
That leed sentence is wonderful to see. Almost anything the washPost says is upside down bullkrap
In my case, Trump has done less damage to my wallet than Biden did; I feel it every time I go shopping for groceries.
If she means by “the nation” the blob otherwise known as “The Deep State,” then I agree with Ruth. But she doesn’t, then all I can say is that this whiney Leftist bitch can cry all she likes, but it’s going to continue - and I will enjoy your tears and those of your fellow scumbag Leftists.
See my tagline, I have used it for years.
Yes if your part of the corrupt incompetent poltical/media machine that is on the verge of bankrupting the US, then yes it been very damaging
If you an average American trying very hard to provide for your family despite the dead head of the US Federal Government, it been the best 2 weeks in about 40 years.
The nation? No. Just the Deep State.
No president in history has caused more damage to the nation more quickly then Rresident Biden thankfully Trump is back to save the country.
The Washington Post still trying to cover up Biden’s chaos and their agenda futile at best.
“””The United States’ standing in the world, its ability to keep the country safe, the federal government’s fundamental capacity to operate effectively — all of these will take years to repair, if that can be achieved at all.”””
Or as MAGA would write the above sentence-—”The Federal Government’s capacity to create and operate bogus agencies who hand out money to big government cronies will take decades and maybe centuries to recreate after Trump47 finishes his first 100 days in office”
Yes! Yes! Yes! Every day I’m more and more proud of Trump! More winning please!!!
Yawn. The WaPo and its fairy tales.
“Hyperbole Much.”
They can’t help themselves, it’s become a habit for them.
“””If you an average American trying very hard to provide for your family despite the dead head of the US Federal Government, it been the best 2 weeks in about 40 years.”””
It was 30 years ago when the Democrats lost their majority in the House of Representatives—power that they had held for more than 50 years. It was a glorious month in January 1995 when the GOP took over the House and stopped Clinton’s Progressive Agenda in its tracks.
Ruth Marcus is one butthurt Leftist...
TO GLOBALISTS AND COMMIES.
Ruth Marcus is a slack-jawed moron, a liar, or both. The “most damaging two weeks in history”? Worse than Pearl Harbor? Worse than any two-week period in any of our wars? Worse than 9/11? Worse than the Covid shutdowns? Worse than the BLM rioting and looting in 2020? Worse than the Spanish flu epidemic in the early 20th Century?
It may go down in history as the most consequential two weeks to the success of the Republic since the Constitutional Convention and it is only begun.
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