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DeVos, Rigged Polls, and Quitting Bureaucrats

Explain It to Me

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What Happens When a New President Comes In?

A lot of senior civil servants quit if the mission of their agency is poorly aligned with the ideological imperatives of the new administration. Mid-level people though actually hang on a little bit extra tenaciously because there are lots of promotional opportunities driven by the huge quantity of quits. Trump is unusually unpopular for a Republican among people with college degrees and has picked up support more from working class people.

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