Poll Finds Nearly Half of Federal Employees Are Planning to ‘Resist’ Trump
“44% saying they would support the administration and 42% saying they would resist it”
Some Legal Insurrection readers will remember when Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers. That’s what Trump might need to do here. Just start mass firings until these folks get the message.
The Daily Signal reports:
DEEP STATE GEARING UP: Nearly Half of Federal Employees in the Swamp Plan to Resist Trump, Poll Finds
A surprising number of federal government employees admit they are gearing up to act like a deep state, opposing the incoming second administration of Donald Trump.
Most Americans, even many of the elites who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, are willing to support Trump’s administration, according to an RMG Research survey commissioned by the Napolitan Institute. Yet 42% of federal government managers who work in the Washington, D.C., swamp intend to work against the administration.
RMG Research conducted three surveys in mid-December to study three different segments of the population. The polling firm focused on what it calls the Elite 1% who have postgraduate degrees, earn more than $150,000 annually, and live in densely populated areas; Main Street Americans who meet none of these three criteria and who represent between 70% and 75% of the U.S. population; and Federal Government Managers—federal employees who live in the National Capitol Region around Washington and earn at least $75,000 annually.
Main Street Americans tend to have less faith in government and want more freedom for Americans, while the Elite 1% tend to have more faith in government and say Americans have too much freedom. Main Street Americans tend to look down on the idea of a deep state opposing the people’s elected president…
On Election Day, 64% of the Elite 1% voted for Harris while only 34% voted for Trump. Yet among the Elite 1% who voted for Harris, a quarter (26%) said they are working to support the new administration.
Federal Government Managers, however, proved evenly split, with only 44% saying they would support the administration and 42% saying they would resist it…
Unsurprisingly, Federal Government Managers proved more gung-ho about resistance when they identified as Democrats.
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FIRE. THEM. NOW
I am done worrying about those assholes who threat to resist. Screw that and fire the lot of them.
I don’t suppose, “I will do my job to the best of my ability regardless of who is in power: was even one of the options?
It’s not important. It would be very unfashionable to even think such a thing.
That was one of the options. For a federal employee, “working to support the new administration” is their job. The administration (i.e. the president) is their employer and their job is to implement its (i.e. his) policies.
It seems like a simple solution. Do what your bosses tell you to do or find a new job. I think we are going to see a different story than Trump 45. He is wise to the game and after several hundred of those clowns are shown the door this nonsense will die in the bud.
First you have to catch them refusing to do their jobs. In most cases their sabotage is likely to be subtle enough that it will take some doing to catch them at it.
For some reason I doubt that the respondents who said they would resist doing their jobs identified themselves.
Notify DOGE that they may be able to cut 40+ percent of the federal work force.
Yeah, but you gotta cut the right 40%. If these are civil service employees, those with greater seniority are probably protected at the expense of those with less.
Mass firings of whom?
If some of these 42% are dumb enough to repeat their threat of insubordination on the record, then firing them is a no-brainer. But most of them are too smart for that. So how do you identify them for firing, and separate them from the majority who intend to do their jobs whether they like it or not?
“42% saying they would resist it”
What a coincidence. That’s almost exactly the percent the federal government needs to be reduced.
At least in Trump’s first month. We may skin it even more later.
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