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

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.

But why wouldn’t we want a president to “clean house?” Do we want a dirty house?

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, and particularly before the now-overturned case of Humphrey’s Executor, which protected “independent agencies” from presidential supervision.