@Ash_Kvetchum @LovecraftEnthusiast @BowsacNoodle @monsterislandcolonizer @sickburnbro One of those last minute questionable things at the end of the (first?) Trump administration was shifting a bunch of "civil servants" into the category they really are, political types.
"Biden" of course immediately reversed that, but they could try this again, and with Vance the presumptive 2028 Republican candidate have 8-12 years to see it through.
One thing to factor in is that Trump's brush with mortality is likely to change him, we're hearing of signs it already seems to have done so.