When in the course of American events it becomes evident that the federal government has grown too large, too bloated, and too powerful, it is necessary to reform said government to protect the safety and autonomy of the people. It becomes especially necessary when people are warning that the fired federal employees could use the skills they learned at toppling foreign governments against their own.
This idea came to fruition in the last election, when the American people said “enough” to the wanton spending and politicization of the federal government. This has led to much-needed reductions in force and funding for programs that are not performing well enough for the American people, such as at the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, and others. It has also led to blatant political theater by the so-called “Resistance” in their relentless quest to garner sympathy from the American people so they can undermine their will.
The over-the-top videos of now-former employees crying on their way out of the government’s ever-spinning revolving door are, themselves, a problem, but they belie two greater issues. First is the politicization of the State Department that plays semantic games with charged terms like “fascism,” and the second, and real threat, is of angry former employees using their skills to undermine the change we voted for in November. (RELATED: The Rise Up Legal Defense Network Is About Obstruction, Not Justice)
As I’m sure many of us have read on social media, departing State Department employees left signs encouraging the remaining staff to “resist fascism” in their roles while receiving a “clap out” for leaving their taxpayer-paid jobs. While the signs are a lazy, last-minute middle finger to the Trump administration and the American people who duly elected them (and rely on the left’s tired trope of calling everything they disagree with “fascist”), they are a symptom of an overall problem in the federal government: self-importan...