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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Ruth Marcus better check her adult diaper...
He's going to have to be like Lincoln.
If you're an NGO grifter, it's pretty bleak right now.
What Musk and a small handful of tech bros are doing right now is walking into the OPM and clicking delete on any government program not specifically authorized by federal statute.
And it turns out there's a lot of these programs.
It's pretty cool.
And the people who got paid by these programs (mostly liberals) are really mad.
I must agree, Trump has caused much damage the first two weeks. To the Deep State that is. May this damage continue unabated.
Glad they feel this way!
Damaging to Deep State....
Yes, we are not tired of winning.
"And WE'RE the only ones who get to do that!"
Not “the nation,” Ruthy, the deep state, and it’s glorious.
5.56mm
Exactly, grifters are deeply saddened
Jackson 2nd Term and Polks term.
Keep that damage coming ! We need more and more.
Yes. Its going to be a great four years for this nation.
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