Expect 'mini-crusades' as government crumbles under Trump: analyst

Former President Donald Trump and his allies have no plans to fix anything in government, and instead, they'll make a big show out of purging enemies from the civil service while shirking any responsibility for the ill consequences. "The pirates aboard the 'Trump Revenge Tour' need not pack an overnight bag because Washington has it all: a plump platoon of public servants ready to be sacked; a sad downtown emptied out by federal workers still enjoying covid-era downtime at home; a tax-happy city government struggling to improve troubled schools, provide safe streets and build decent housing," he wrote. "Sure, there’ll be some ritual firings, and every GOP administration loves to smack D.C. around," wrote Fisher — indeed, even Democratic presidents sometimes overturn D.C.'s decisions. Will the middle managers of the Project 2025 Brigade really want to run D.C.’s sprawling bureaucracies and take the heat when the sewers back up, shoplifting worsens and school attendance remains shockingly low?" "He will, as ever, look for showy ways to spotlight any lefty lunacies his foot soldiers find in the bloated federal workforce or in the region’s many woke institutions," he wrote.