“The executive branch must necessarily be subject to the will of the President, given that he is the elected representative of the people. Otherwise, we do not live in a DEMOcracy, but rather a BUREAUcracy. [@shylockh] Every day for the past month, I've been reminded that for my entire life up to 2024, I was assured that it was impossible to fire civil servants in any meaningful quantity, that government departments couldn't ever be closed down. It was all lies. It just hadn't been tried. 1/)”