Employee pain is a feature, not a bug

If you haven’t heard of Yale professor and author Timothy Snyder, please take a minute and google sadopopulism. In simplistic terms, it’s the substitution of pain in place of policy. Every day we hear more from the WH about how the tariffs will cause America short-term pain and then we will experience some sort of economic rebirth. Russell Vought publicly embraced subjecting federal employees to trauma as an effective tool to shrink the workforce. Good leadership in government isn’t modeled on humiliation and degradation. Causing pain and trauma isn’t an unfortunate, unintended consequence of reimagining the federal government, or for that matter America. It’s the game plan. Brutal but effective.