If Trump wins, expect a hiring spree of MAGA fanatics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Many acting officials found the courage to resist Trump in large part because his presidency was nearly at its end, and it was clear that a peaceful transfer of power would take place.
55% : When acting officials failed to give Trump the answers he wanted, the then-president had no problem showing them the door.
51% : The result will be an administration where loyalty to Trump is the first and only concern, and where turnover will be even higher than the record level of personnel loss Trump saw in his first term.
38% : Yet the most damaging proposal, laundered through far-right groups such as the Heritage Foundation (which Trump has publicly disavowed), has garnered relatively few headlines: to undermine the Senate's role in confirming White House Cabinet officials.
36% : The result would be a runaway presidency unchained from accountability and federal executive branch officials beholden only to Trump.
36% : But that's just fine for Trump -- his goal has never been good government.
36% : Lawmakers never anticipated a president taking advantage of the Vacancies Act to the level Trump is likely to, and so there are no safeguards to protect the White House from becoming just another Trump influence-peddling operation.
29% : That was certainly the case for Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who testified that Trump directly pressured him to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
28% : Freed from the moderating influence of Senate confirmation hearings, Trump would be able to quickly appoint all manner of extremists to fill critical roles in an "acting" capacity -- and dump any acting official who refuses to carry out potentially illegal orders.
28% : It isn't just that Trump's first term set a record for the number of days worked by unconfirmed acting officials; itis that the holes Trump filled that also merit real concern from the country's national security experts.
26% : Worse still, there's little Congress can do to stop Trump from forcing this autocratic new policy into action.
12% : Trump fired acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire after Maguire dared to tell Congress about Russia's interests in the Trump administration.
4% : When high-level Trump officials including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and multiple national security officials resigned from his administration in disgust following the violence of January 6, Trump quickly replaced them with acting officials.

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