The so called spoils system was a President appointing people who would execute his policy. Instead we have a Prussian style bureaucracy that naturally corrupts and decides IT sets national policy.
A president must follow their talking points or get impeached. Vindman said this on every without a hint of being aware of how horrifying this is.
Spoils system was better
Maybe.
We have prospered tremendously under the bureaucracy. But it is hard to know if they helped or hindered.
What they have done, is take enormous amounts of power, given to them by the Congress and Courts, and they are pretty much unaccountable.
A lot of folks I know picked up on that about Vindman - who is this Trump idiot who thinks he can just go talking to the President of the Ukraine without consulting ME! ME! What about ME!
Who says we don’t have a spoils system now?
Isn’t that the Deep State?
We got “wing men” and “ Vive la Resistance.”
The good thing about the Spoils System is that the next administration could fire their asses. Try firing anybody in the Civil Service ( an oxymoron ) today.