For decades, working for the DoJ has been considered a plum job for attorneys. The best and the brightest wanted to work there. For those who had ambition, it could be a pathway to a well-paid career. Unless you had some pull somewhere, you wren't getting in without graduating from a decent law school with a high class standing.
But now, under Trump/Bondi/Blanche, the DoJ will not only take anyone they can get (kind of like the Army during the Iraq War), they're offering signing bonuses. Which tells you that they're not geting the best and the brightest, they're recruiting from the clowns at the bottom of their class ranking in lower tier 4 law schools.
The reputation that will now come with working for Trump's Legal Department will put one at a firm that chases fender-benders, offers cheap divorces and closes deals on trailers. Because the employment market for partisan goons is not that great and will become even worse as this administration sinks into the morass of the bottom of the reputational pile.
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
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Paul Krugman: "Let me call this Arendt’s Law: Totalitarian and wannabe totalitarian regimes only hire incompetent hacks."
DEI for Liberty University "Law" School grads.
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