Fresh proof the federal workforce is still stuck on #Resisting Trump
For dispelling the myth of a super-competent, nonpartisan federal workforce, let us all thank Sean Charles Dunn.
Dunn reportedly worked as an international-affairs specialist in the Justice Department’s criminal division — until Thursday, when he allegedly had a public meltdown at federal agents, finishing up by throwing his Subway sandwich at one of them.
Video shows him cussing out his fellow law-enforcement professionals, proudly denouncing them as “fascists” before his closing food offensive.
He apparently objected to President Donald Trump’s intervention to fight DC crime.
The escapade won Dunn a felony charge that could bring a year behind bars — and, once higher-ups learned what he’d done, cost him his job.
Good: It would be audacious enough if some civilian lunatic did something like that, but a federal employee — who works for the president, and at the nation’s top law-enforcement agency, no less?
No wonder Trump has sought to “drain the swamp.”
Sure, many federal workers are hard-working and carry out their jobs without bias.
But the rot runs deep: Studies have found support for Dems over GOPers running as high as 2-1 among the federal workforce, and far higher at certain agencies.
Plus, Uncle Sam’s employees gave a whopping 84% of their donations last year to Kamala Harris, Government Executive found; 42% admitted plans to “resist” Trump, including 73% of Democratic managers, per the Napolitan Institute.
Such #Resistance clearly hobbled Trump during his first term, weighing him down with probes, impeachments, insider leaks, and all manner of “creative noncompliance” with his policies.
It’s outrageous. Federal workers take an oath to “faithfully discharge the duties” of their office — i.e., without bias against a president or policies they dislike.
The system can’t function any other way.
If Dunn is found guilty, he deserves every day he gets in lockup. And should never work for the government again.
No, that won’t put a major dent in this political scourge, but it might send a message to those workers who care about maintaining a functional democracy.
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