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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: The Unaccountable Government Class
Description: First, government bureaucrats and even some of his own staff worked to subvert the Trump agenda. Now young staffers openly protest their bosses’ support for Israel. The public, vocal policy protests by unelected government workers are troubling. It’s a sign our representative democracy isn’t working as intended. Elected officials—the people’s representatives—are supposed to make the decisions. Bureaucrats and other staffers are supposed to carry them out. Instead, over time, elected officials have ceded their authority and unelected staff have come to think of this authority as their due. The result i...