'Losing their minds': Fear of second Trump presidency 'most acute' at DOJ

[milestogo]

While Republican lawmakers celebrate Donald Trump's win over Kamala Harris, "alarm" over the ex-president's "return is widespread throughout the federal bureaucracy," according to a Sunday Politico report. However, fear over what a second Trump presidency might bring is "most acute" at the Department of Justice, Politico reports, "which was at the center of many of the major controversies of his first term."

A DOJ attorney told the news outlet, "Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds. The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out."Now, DOJ officials worry the president-elect will take revenge, and that many longtime staffers could lose their jobs.

"Many federal employees are terrified that we’ll be replaced with partisan loyalists — not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service,” DOJ trial attorney Stacey Young told Politico.

An ex-DOJ official who served under Trump told the news outlet, "We’ve all seen this movie before and it’s going to be worse. It will be worse. It’s just a question of how much worse it’s going to be."

https://www.alternet.org/doj-lawyers-trump/

[SoCalDavidS]

1. LOL!!

They failed to hold the Face Eating Leopard accountable, and now they're concerned that the Face Eating Leopard is going to be running the show.

[Aviation Pro]

2. The most concerned should be Milquetoast

Who failed to do his fucking job.

[Lovie777]

3. Stop it ....

[RockRaven]

4. Your institution totally failed to hold TCF and his white-collar thugs accountable

even though you KNEW there was a limited time window of 4 years after which you would be in this position if you failed. What the fuck did you expect to happen while you were bumbling along like that? Someone else to take care of it for you?

[Autumn]

5. Alarm? Too bad nothing was done to prevent his return.

Don't worry, you will all be fine.

[slightlv]

6. They've been doing away with a totally

merit based system since Bush jr was in office. I will never forget when we had an "all hands" introduction to the new yearly review forms. After listening to what was said in between the lines and couched in dog whistles, once we broke up and were mingling, I hit up one guy pretty high up in mgmt and made a comment that it looked to me like this was just created to make it easier to RIF people. He agreed with me, and told me to keep my head down. (I didn't, but I DID retire not long after that.)

These lawyers have been making excellent money for selling us out all these years. I'm not at all worried about them. I'm worried about the mid-level and actual worker bees who make the trains run on time. Like the friends I left behind when I retired. I have a huge issue with trying to run up sympathy with people who make the kind of money these guys probably make. Try making it as a family on a GS-9 and then come talk to me.