The DC area is like a fascist state. As such Conservatives have to fake being liberals to survive if they are FedGov employees. The workers who are Conservatives have to maintain their cover like covert agents in a foreign land. DC is not the land of the free.
That is mostly true.
However, as others have said, DOD tends to be far far more conservative.
In my 36 years I have worked with one person who was “liberal” and even he would be counted as conservative by the democrat leadership these days.
It is true them many agencies are rabidly anti-American. but DOD is mostly conservative.
In Kansas City no conservatives need apply.
I don’t doubt that for a single second.
Living behind enemy lines.