If Trump wins reelection, there may be a different kind of chaos, revolving around an effort to identify federal officials deemed insufficiently loyal to the president and replace them with people who have demonstrated their full support for him.
Trump has already moved to create a new employment category, Schedule F, to make it easier to remove career civil servants and replace them with administration loyalists. Agencies have been ordered to identify potentially thousands of employees who could be shifted to the new category.
That presumably, would make it easier for the president to rid himself of people like Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom Trump has increasingly treated with scorn and ridicule. (The problem is that even in situations where federal employees have more limited civil service protections, it’s problematic to announce in advancethat you’re waiting until after an election to terminate one of them merely for being insufficiently dedicated to downplaying a pandemic.)
Fauci is in the glare of the spotlight in a national crisis that has become increasingly politicized. But federal employees in less prominent positions should not kid themselves. To an administration that may be in charge for another four years, they are at best viewed as a bothersome impediment to action on the president’s goals. At worst, they are the enemy.
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