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
Can’t fire them without cause…
SO, authorize DOGE to investigate possible corruption ( the OIG is too embedded in the swamp). Ask for testimonials from the public regarding ethics violations. Pressure lower echelon bureaucrats to testify against thier supervisors. I hate to use the term but a purge is what the system needs to survive. By the way…. if you see vehicle decals with Smoky Bear in sunglasses with the word RESIST or a decal with trees saying May the Forest be with you, these are probably National Park service employees who belong to the anti Trump Alt.NPS 5th column. Know your enemy.
I am done worrying about those assholes who threat to resist. Screw that and fire the lot of them.
Tell them that resistance is futile, we are MAGA. Identify who the 41%. Retribution should be very public and swift. Government has become far too big, and wit it gross incompetence. Recruit informants. Bring terror to deep state.
Think about debt reduction from massive firings.
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.
“Supporting the new administration” implies partisanship, though. irv is asking if there was an option of “Do my job properly, regardless of the administration.” Their job is mostly to implement the law, not even to implement the administration’s policies – depending on whether we’re talking a bureaucrat flunky or an ambassador or department head.
Use computer searches of internal communications to identify resistors, do that going back 15-20 years
, they will be a goldmine of useful information for downsizing.
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.
Internal communications will hang large numbers.
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.
Eliminate their jobs, for the ones you can’t outright fire for insubordination. That will handle some largish portion. (Because that’s what they need to be doing anyway, is cutting away vast portions of the gov’t.)
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?
I think if you start those firings, the “resisters” will start to self-identify. At least some larger portion of them.
Especially when they eventually impeach themselves on social media, like attention starved narcissists.
First Amendment lets them say whatever they want but does it guarantee them a job?
“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.
60% would be more reasonable, these clowns have had their way so long, most are sloppy and lazy.
If those bureaucrats are no more effective in resisting Trump than they were in supporting Biden, there’s not a lot to worry about. Except for the fact that we’re paying people to do badly what we don’t want done at all.
At first sign of resistance, fire them. After making examples of the initial resistors others will conform to the new way of operating.
Resist at your peril, fools.
They plan to “defend democracy” — by substituting their judgment for the will of the people. Their votes be damned. Irony much? Do these people listen to themselves?
TDS is a crippling mental illness.
A 42% downsizing sounds just about right!
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