If you’re fond of certain social media memes—sowing/reaping, how it started/how it’s going, fuck around/find out—this is a real boom time.
But here’s the bottom line: Trumpism isn’t working.
What Trump and his cronies misunderstand is that the civil service is essentially an extension of the people’s will.
Nor is it surprising to find that the same set of respondents are not exactly “clamoring for DOGE cuts.”
At the same time, public approval is trending against Trump’s Silicon Valley suck-ups, not to mention Trump himself, of whom half the country now disapproves.
The civil service is a collection of people doing the mostly invisible work of keeping daily life thrumming along and keeping us safe from a multitude of harms.
The percentage of Americans who feel the economy is on the wrong track has risen 10 points in less than a month. »
