Trump Is Already Damaging the Ability of State

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(01-28-2017, 12:21 AM)Dill Wrote: Trickle down Chaos. "Government by impulse" as E.J. Dionne calls it.

Presidential candidates in the past have deadlocked with Congress. We will soon have that with Trump too.

What we haven't had is a paralysis of the executive along with deadlock. That is in the making now, department by department.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/top-state-department-officials-asked-to-leave-by-trump-administration/index.html
The firings leave a huge management hole at the State Department, with a combined 150 years of institutional experience among all of the named officials. The second official echoed that the move appeared to be an effort by the new administration to "clean house" among the State Department's top leadership.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/01/26/the-state-departments-entire-senior-management-team-just-resigned/?utm_term=.ed8bd685d343
“It’s the single biggest simultaneous departure of institutional memory that anyone can remember, and that’s incredibly difficult to replicate,” said David Wade, who served as State Department chief of staff under Secretary of State John Kerry. “Department expertise in security, management, administrative and consular positions in particular are very difficult to replicate and particularly difficult to find in the private sector.”

Soooooooooooooooooooo, is the problem that he got rid of so many people? Or is it that he got rid of so many people without replacing them right away?

'Cause if it's the former (which is what it seems like), I don't really see the problem. Sure, they may be knowledgeable, but that doesn't mean that it's not time for them to move on and/or have new people with new thoughts and ideas in their place. It's kind of like how so many people (myself included) are in favor of term limits for elected officials.

Now, if their vacancies take too long to fill and/or he replaces them with idiots (which I acknowledge is possible and maybe even probable), then I'd be worried.