@dachte.bsky.social: This is true, although it's hard to know what that means and I worry it will be parsed in the populist "I find it exhausting to be civilized and follow rules and be non-maximalist" sense.

The future is terror. Funded by Heritage Foundation, the same group creating Project 2025, a GOP activist is snooping into the background of federal employees, creating a Trump enemies list. With Schedule F, they will fire those officials. apnews.com/article/trum...

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plansapnews.com Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homel...

We already knew that the Trump team had an enemies list of career officials they planned to fire based on their first term experiences. This is more wide-ranging. Last week I told a friend in the federal govt to delete his social media and start a Truth Social account. Only half-joking.

You can watch John Oliver's explanation of Schedule F here. Two points: 1) Engage in ideological purges is a central strategy to the GOP's governing doctrine now. 2) There is not equivalent energy in fighting back from the center or the left. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-public...

The Public Opposes Trump's Plans to Politicize Public Servicesdonmoynihan.substack.com And John Oliver provides a Project 2025 explainer for you to share

I don't know what equivalent energy would like like, but ideological purges are not really how we do things on the center-left. To match methods with the populist right would be to lose ourselves.

He said equivalent energy fighting back, he did not say equivalent methods

This is true, although it's hard to know what that means and I worry it will be parsed in the populist "I find it exhausting to be civilized and follow rules and be non-maximalist" sense.

Can't craft all skeets for all people, unfortunately

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