Subject: Re: Maintaining focus this election cycle
But I'm NOT OK with reclassifying much of the civil service so that they can be replaced based on loyalty rather than competence and experience.

This has been fought over since early in our Republic and the end result was a Civil Service based on merit, not cronyism and spoils of political victory. To take that away would send us down a path of deep corruption leading us to something like Putin's gawdawful oligarchical kleptocracy.

Republicans, are you really this stupid?