That, unfortunately, is the image projected of the United States by people who are paid to do just that and who have a higher loyalty first to their bureaucracy and then to internationalist institutions. There was no loss of perspective on their parts because they never had one in the first place.
This is not to say that they were all deliberately anti-American although it sure looked that way from time to time. They were equally ignorant of their own country. And that's the problem. Firing the lot and putting them to work changing tires at a truck stop wouldn't hurt; replacing them with an identical mob of globalist Ivy League fantasists wouldn't help.
Every state department employee who is identified as “nervous” should be fired immediately. Enough of these anti-American compromised losers.
Thankfully, that wasn’t my experience working with State. It was actually more difficult and time-consuming to convince the military side (my side) to cut Foreign Military Financing to zero (from prior year’s $15 million).
All it took at State was a 20 minute briefing with the DCM and it was a done deal. I really enjoyed working with the State folks; we kept each other in the loop and backed each other up in meetings. Maybe I was just lucky.
Met a women at a Republican meeting for my county several months back.
She was Jewish, former State dept employee who was in the process of “coming out of the closet” LOL!
She was telling me the stupidity and amazing arrogance of her co-workers was through the roof. If they were other Repubs there, they hid it well. She was in a living hell for decades!