They purged the people who would say no, loyalty-tested who remained, and made the rest complicit. Can this be undone?
Excerpt: The strategy was spelled out in advance. First, push out everyone you can. Then institute loyalty tests for the people who remain. Ask those remaining to do unlawful things, so that the only ones who stay have partisan loyalty and are complicit in unlawful conduct. Project 2025 called for a president to make “aggressive use” of executive power “to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will,” and for one who could “handcuff the bureaucracy” and bring “the Administrative State to heel.” What was a proposal in 2024 is now the staffing orders for the Department of Justice and the FBI.














