Bringing Back the 'Spoils System?' Yes, Please.

A better name would be an "accountability system." And it's just the beginning. -Glenn Harlan Reynolds

• She says this like it’s a bad thing:

Well, she’s a University of Michigan law professor who is, even by law professor standards, far gone into Trump Derangement Syndrome...

As for our professional, independent civil service — it is to laugh. 

The civil service isn’t independent: 

• It happily does the bidding of Democratic presidents. 
• It’s just partisan, in that it does its best to stall and undermine the work of Republican presidents. (By now we’ve all seen the emails.)

But more importantly, the proof of the pudding is in the eating: 

We’ve run America with and without a “professional, independent civil service,” and 

• there was more trust in government — and 
• better execution of policy — 

before the creation of the civil service than after...