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I hear this Reagan guy worked for the government...

One could argue it is actually the other way around: the government works for the president. The president works for the people.

One could argue that, but one would be wrong, in the United States at least. Federal employees swear an oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" (see https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2019/10/the-oath-o...). It doesn't say anything about supporting either the office or the person of the President.

The president is the commander in chief of the army. The DoD does in fact work for the president. This fact, which is not popular on hn is that the USA wouldn’t exist without the DoD. We’d all be speaking Chinese or Russian. The rest of the federal government wouldn’t exist without the DoD.

I don’t think the oath you quoted is much of an argument.

Proved his own point

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