There are certainly problems with the federal civil service, but how could a return to the spoils system be better? And to a large degree, the civil service still operates very much like a spoils system under the hood, despite all the documentation and attempts to the contrary.
Well, if it really operates very much like one, why not make it explicit?
As for how it could be better, as I said about, accountability.
Let's take a recent partial example: when George H. W. Bush became president, he immediately got rid of every "Reaganite" in the politically appointed/staff/whatever parts that a president has control over.
And the nation didn't like the results and fired his ass in the next election.
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There are certainly problems with the federal civil service, but how could a return to the spoils system be better? And to a large degree, the civil service still operates very much like a spoils system under the hood, despite all the documentation and attempts to the contrary.
Well, if it really operates very much like one, why not make it explicit?
As for how it could be better, as I said about, accountability.
Let's take a recent partial example: when George H. W. Bush became president, he immediately got rid of every "Reaganite" in the politically appointed/staff/whatever parts that a president has control over.
And the nation didn't like the results and fired his ass in the next election.