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So let me get this straight. The President can dictate Federal workers do stuff that are likely – or may be – illegal. If they don’t do it, they get fired. By the time an employee’s complaint works itself through the system, they’ve been replaced by a MAGA loyalist who willfully takes on the task. If months – or years – later the request of the President is deemed illegal, it’s too late; damage done.
Exasperating this dire situation is the tactic by the President to make sure he edicts so many of these dictates at the same time that it becomes impossible for the workforce to complain through the proper channels.
Exasperating it even more is what is happening to the legal system. The President is decapitating the legal system to ensure lawyers become increasingly hesitant to take on any case against him. “Do it at your own peril”, he is loudly saying.
Trump is simply using the good will of the system we’ve created to destroy that very system.
As long as there are enough MAGA loyalists work-a-bees willing to embrace his approach and not giving a second thought to the legality of it all, the damage being done, or the cruelty of how it is being done, there is truly not much anyone can do about it other than sporadic ‘mini-heroes’ shining a momentary light on a very dark reality, or – if there are any decent lawyers left – make a court case out it. As long as these MAGA work-a-bees are part of his self-serving dictatorial schemes, things will continue sliding fast down the road of autocracy.
Welcome to MAGAmerica. We are here.