Tracing the birth of a conspiracy theory.

[berg80]

Trump wants to end the Hatch Act and make Federal Employees loyal to him

The details of that plan are in Project 2025.

 

[surada]

They like the term because it sounds so dark and vague and scary.

From what I can tell, the term was taken by hyperbolic MAGA talk radio propagandist Mark Levin, and that's when it entered the movement's bloodstream in full.

Trump overheard the words once.

 

[SeaMajor7]

The details of that plan are in Project 2025.

No, that's your PROJECTION 2025

 

[berg80]

Trump overheard the words once.

Something as simple as that is all it takes. Look what happened with CRT. Trump caught wind of it and it was off to the races.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Something as simple as that is all it takes. Look what happened with CRT. Trump caught wind of it and it was off to the races.

Fuck YOU and you Marxist CRT!!!!!!
You neo-Bolsheviks have absolutely no self-awareness AT ALL.

 

[SweetSue92]

Like any citizen, Federal Employees are allowed to make donations but they must report them

The Deep State is liberal. Can't deny that.

That's ok though bc the SC basically disbanded them, or at least de-fanged them. As they should.

 

[rightwinger]

The Deep State is liberal. Can't deny that.

That's ok though bc the SC basically disbanded them, or at least de-fanged them. As they should.

There is no such thing as the Deep State
You can’t deny that

 

[berg80]

The Deep State is liberal. Can't deny that.

The deep state is a fiction.

 

[berg80]

The deep state conspiracy theory has had a corrosive affect.

Confidence in government’s career employees drops​

The share of Americans who have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in career employees at government agencies who are not appointed by a president has declined by 9 percentage points since late 2018, from 61% to 52%.

Roughly one-in-ten adults (9%) now say they have a great deal of confidence in career government employees, while 44% have a fair amount of confidence. A third say they have not too much confidence in career civil servants, and 14% say they have no confidence in them at all.

Confidence in government employees has declined among both Republicans and Democrats since 2018. Among Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party, 38% say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in civil servants, down from 48% in December 2018.


Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, nearly two-thirds (65%) have a great deal (14%) or a fair amount (51%) of confidence in career civil servants, down from 71% nearly four years ago.

6. The people of government: Career employees, political appointees and candidates for office

The public continues to express more confidence in the federal government’s career employees than in officials appointed by the president. However, the

www.pewresearch.org

 

[rightwinger]

The deep state conspiracy theory has had a corrosive affect.

Confidence in government’s career employees drops​

The share of Americans who have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in career employees at government agencies who are not appointed by a president has declined by 9 percentage points since late 2018, from 61% to 52%.

Roughly one-in-ten adults (9%) now say they have a great deal of confidence in career government employees, while 44% have a fair amount of confidence. A third say they have not too much confidence in career civil servants, and 14% say they have no confidence in them at all.

Confidence in government employees has declined among both Republicans and Democrats since 2018. Among Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party, 38% say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in civil servants, down from 48% in December 2018.


Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, nearly two-thirds (65%) have a great deal (14%) or a fair amount (51%) of confidence in career civil servants, down from 71% nearly four years ago.

6. The people of government: Career employees, political appointees and candidates for office

The public continues to express more confidence in the federal government’s career employees than in officials appointed by the president. However, the

www.pewresearch.org

It is all part of the Trump Playbook

Breed mistrust of Career Civil Service among the public and pave the way to replace them with an appointed partisan workforce loyal to Trump

 

[SeaMajor7]

The deep state is a fiction.

"These are not the droids you are looking for."
* waves hand *

 

[berg80]

It is all part of the Trump Playbook

Breed mistrust of Career Civil Service among the public and pave the way to replace them with an appointed partisan workforce loyal to Trump

Right, dissenters must be purged. Because in a pluralistic republic dissent is not tolerated.

 

[rightwinger]

Right, dissenters must be purged. Because in a pluralistic republic dissent is not tolerated.

Isn’t appointing partisan government employees by definition…..A Deep State?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Ah, now we are getting somewhere. IOW, agencies you don't like are full of deep staters? Do they carry membership cards? Are they told what to do or do they receive messages subliminally?

Any non elected agency that changes any laws is the deep state.

 

[rightwinger]

Any non elected agency that changes any laws is the deep state.

An agency doing its stated mission is not a deep state

 

[bigrebnc1775]

An agency doing its stated mission is not a deep state

No only Congress can change laws.

 

[rightwinger]

No only Congress can change laws.

Federal agencies set rules and regulations

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Federal agencies set rules and regulations

Numbnuts the ATF changed the law. And others do the same thing. That's why the supreme court spanked their ass.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

 

[dudmuck]

The deep state is a fiction.