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> When the CDC head refused to implement changes to vaccine policy and fire subordinates, she lost her job immediately, as did they.
> When the politician appointed to run the IRS appeared to side with the permanent staff, President Donald Trump literally sent him to Iceland.

Trump’s victories against the bureaucracy have appalled many Democrats, though none have much of a theory on how to put Humpty Dumpty back together. It’s going to be hard to attract the best and the brightest to temporary employment.
But others on the left are ready for the
change and believe that
, most of all — are no longer
viable.
After mocking think-tankers for identifying Federal Reserve independence — undemocratic by definition — as vital to “our democracy,” the liberal economist Adam Tooze asked whether it’s “time to actually define what the appeal of ‘our democracy’ actually is” and to “define what a democratic politics of central banking might look like.”
As with many of Trump’s innovations, Democrats are beginning to believe there’s no going back.


The Niskanen Center argued recently that politicizing the bureaucracy will produce such bad outcomes that future presidents will have to reverse course. “Business literature has developed a robust evidence base showing that the ability of employees to speak up without fear of retribution directly contributes to improved team and firm performance” — and inversely, that fear is “significantly” related to worse outcomes.


With no other witnesses, Solomon devises a test.
He orders one of his guards to cut the living child in half and give each woman a piece.
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