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user-inactivated · 2899 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Yale history professor’s powerful, 20-point guide to defending democracy under a Trump presidency
I'm more worried than you and Odder, but I'll say this: most of the bureaucracy has civil service protections, so attempts to punish dissenters would be difficult, and at least the subset of it I have contact with really does care about doing the job they do and are perfectly willing to subvert any policies that get in the way of them doing it. I have heard funny stories about the Bush administration. Except for those that get defunded, government business is likely to proceed more-or-less as normal in spite (perhaps more literally than usual) of whatever horror gets appointed to nominally run things.