This whole operation is as related to finding corruption exhibits as the Moscow trials were to finding traitors in the Red Army.
It is a (ridiculous) pretext for purging the system from people that the new power deems “uncooperative”.
It is a (ridiculous) pretext for purging the system from people that the new power deems “uncooperative”.
And it's not some theoretical idea, in all Western democracies, every civil servant that has been in place for long enough has seen governments from multiple political sides. That's how it works.
Using illegal means to purge the institutions from undesired people is not something that happens in a democracy, this is unprecedented in the West since Gleichschaltung.
Have you forgotten Trump's first presidential term? The resistance [1], the gleeful celebration of the "deep state" fighting back against Trump [2], a US general calling his Chinese counterparts before the 2020 election [3]?
Bureaucrats cannot fight against a democratically elected executive, call themselves the resistance and then be surprised when they are treated as the resistance.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/trump-fauci-deep-...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-top-general-secretly-cal...
for example, you are defending firing workers for: “People are just going to have to accept the results,” he told The Washington Post. “I’m a Republican. I believe in fair and secure elections.”
...some dangerous deep state, indeed.
In a democracy, a civil servant must respect the law even if it goes against orders. When all you have civil servants who respect their boss's orders even when it goes against the law, you have left the domain of democracy.
Which was something people here screamed bloody murder about when they accused Biden of doing it, just by asking Twitter to moderate content, but I guess this is all fine now.
It's never wrong when it's something you agree with, and that's as far as Musk's belief in free speech goes. Allowing posts he agrees with, it's free speech. If it's something that sheds bad light on something he is, owns, or believes, it's bad and must be stopped. It's a classic as old as time