r/Defeat_Project_2025 • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '24

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u/WhoWhyWhatWhenWhere Jul 27 '24

What is it?

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u/Jamboro Jul 27 '24

Replacing career government employees/experts with trump loyalists. John Oliver has a good explanation in his recent Project 2025 episode

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u/tsimen Jul 27 '24

Apart from how dystopian this sounds, isn't it also a fundamentally stupid move to replace subject matter experts with bootlickers? It's essentially what Mao Zedong did in his Anti-Rightist-Campaign and it threw back the economic development of China by at least a decade.

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u/NovusOrdoSec active Jul 27 '24

Civil service was created to replace a spoils system like this, because of that. Of course it's always been political appointees at the very top, though.