Rather than sideline federal agencies, Republicans want to seize control of them, purge civil servants and replace them with America First footsoldiers
According to the Axios report, Trump’s top priority in a new administration will be to ‘clean house’ in the intelligence community, DoJ and FBI.According to the Axios report, Trump’s top priority in a new administration will be to ‘clean house’ in the intelligence community, DoJ and FBI.Last modified on Tue 2 Aug 2022 14.25 BSThe Republican party of today has a new attitude towards the power of government.
What seems to have changed in the interim is Trump’s desire for revenge. According to the Axios report, Trump’s top priority in a new administration will be to “clean house” in the intelligence community, DoJ and FBI. Loyalists will be installed in the place of current leadership. Why these places? The standard conservative critique of the civil service is that everyone in it is a liberal, but that certainly isn’t true of these agencies.
What will be done with this power? Some of it is grimly predictable. With the Department of Justice finally under control, the next Republican president would be free to launch criminal inquiries into political opponents. The brutality of immigration enforcement would be sharply increased while environmental regulations would languish unenforced. Rightwing extremists would go unmolested while American Muslims had their rights abused.
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