Mary Trump - There Is No Battlefield
If the battle lines aren’t clear, it’s because there aren’t any. Or, putting it differently, the war is happening everywhere in places we typically wouldn’t expect fighting to occur.
Here, in broad strokes, is what I’m currently looking at.
The Purges
As far as I’m aware, a significant percentage of workers at every U.S. agency have been or are about to be let go. None of this is normal. Government employees are supposed to be afforded certain protections. They cannot be fired without cause and agencies wishing to terminate an individual’s employment must follow due process. Since the Trump regime has instated Schedule F, which gives the executive broader control over the civil service, these rights have been withdrawn. Failing us once again, the corporate media have referred to these illegal firings as “buyouts” or “deferred resignations” when, in reality, they are, in the short term, a way to replace career civil servants with loyalists to Donald and his fascist agenda. Their mission will be to dismantle the agencies they are supposed to serve.
The lives of hundreds of thousands of dedicated federal employees will be upended and careers will be destroyed. A more troubling knock-on effect is that institutional memory, the essence of a high-functioning democracy, will be wiped out, potentially for generations.
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