"Every bureaucracy has some bloat. But there are no more civil servants now than there were in the late 1960s, even as the population they serve has grown by two-thirds. The tasks these 2.2 million employees perform are often uncontroversial; the Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the largest employers, and 70 percent of the civil service works in defense and security-related agencies. Moreover, federal workers are more efficient than private workers; they are less expensive to hire too."
Steven Levitsky describes the rise of "competitive authoritarianism."
And Jonathan Chait writes that "bribery is basically legal now, as long as you support, or are, Donald Trump."
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