The problem at least as far as the Lois Lerners of FedGov go. There is never real enforcement of the Hatch Act. GOP administrations pretend to enforce it, Rat administrations encourage its violation.
For example - back to Lois Lerner!
Prior to the IRS she was at the FEC
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Lerner then joined the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) general counsel’s office as an assistant general counsel in 1981. She spent twenty years at the FEC, being appointed Associate General Counsel for Enforcement (the head of the FEC’s Enforcement Division) in 1986. Lerner was acting general counsel for the FEC for the first six months of 2001.
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She was a known problem here! Extremely partisan! In the past I read accounts how she tilted the playing for Rat notables like Dick Durbin. People would come in and complain about some fund-raising or something that was in violation of federal election finance law.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Election_Commission)
She would quickly dismiss the complaint and on occasion turn the tables back on the one filing the complaint.
Any rational enforcement of the Hatch Act would have fired her long before she got to the IRS.
Then there is the whole problem of the IRS and unionization!
TEU - Treasury Employees Union a very leftwing government employees union.
If there are two places where it should be rock solid nonpartisan it should be the FEC & the IRS. But that’s not the case! Federal Employee Unions only exist due to JFK’s executive order. They could be undone that way! (Yes I know it would be challenged in Federal Court!)