What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
Trump’s Corrupt Plan to Fire Federal Workers, Hire Loyalists and Build His Own ‘Deep State’
Shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing foreign aid, placing the agency’s 10,000 employees ...
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What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
It’s an imperfect comparison, as I learned from Daniel Feller, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Tennessee, who has written extensively about Jackson and the spoils system of ...
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What Trump is doing to the US government is not a spoils system
FELLER: The rise of the spoils system during and after Jackson’s presidency – it wasn’t all Jackson’s doing – was attendant upon the rise of political partisanship in the United States ...