trump has shadow government ready to go. Purge the "Deep State"

Guys you can close the door on this boogeyman. Trump is not winning in 2024. He may not even win the primary. You are safe to sleep well at night without looking under the bed each time you wake to take a tinckle.

 

I never thought he had a chance in hell the first time. Yet here we are. The fact he could even sniff the White House again is insanity.

 

One of the main reasons America gets by no matter who is in charge is that you have a professional career civil service. I cant imagine firing tens of thousands of federal employees will do anything other than make the country incredibly dysfunctional and even more corrupt. Its amazing how much right-wingers are angling to kill the golden goose by putting Groyper134MAGA or MAGAKaren999 as SEC regulators or IRS staff, or whatever.

 

Clearly, they plan a purge of anyone who places country and the Constitution over fealty to der fuhrer Trump. No one should be surprised.

 

I know invoking Hitler can be fun, but people also don't seem to realize this is how the country was run during much of the 19th century. Its a general theme with these people taking us back to the 19th century.

Spoils system - Wikipedia

Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act - Wikipedia

 

Forget surprised... you have people still denying it could happen, and saying we're all crazy for worrying about it.
Like the last few years didn't happen...

 

Oh my. Isn't that what happened when President Biden and his administration took office? House cleaning and identification of President Trump supporters in the government jobs. If I recall they actually put people on a black list.

 

It was more than political employees. As for the Post Master General as I recall that is not a political appointment. That position is selcted by a board that over sees USPS.

 

The scale we are talking about is totally different. Every president cleans house, what Trump is proposing is scorched earth burning the house down, not cleaning house.

 

There are a bunch that need firing, but not for this reason (not being a trump supporter). Government is a big bloated "jobs" program.
I think 50% could be fired or let go, and the real people doing the actual work would still be "doing the work". This would still leave 20+ percent doing much of nothing and living off the tax payers.

 

Insane that people think this, but this is just the other side of the coin that thinks you can just replace 10-50k civil service jobs with campaign loyalists and expect everything will function as usual. I would say most agencies are understaffed as it is. The IRS can barely enforce the tax code as it is lol.

 

Trump placed unqualified, inexperienced loyalists in many jobs, including cabinet level. He appointed several judges who were so unqualified that they weren't even endorsed by conservative judicial groups. Loyalty always trumped qualifications.

 

And you said you weren’t a libbie….ha.

 

Which gets to my point about many others being fired once heads of administrations change. As for DeJoy obviously he is not a problem and never was to begin with.

 

Invoking Hitler circa late 1920's/early 1930's is reasonable, given Trump led his brownshirts to try to stop the legal certification of his opponent who won by 8 million votes.