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‘Blatant cronyism’: Trump’s gutting of the civil service has historic parallels to ‘spoils system’

The “spoils system” of the 19th century filled the government with party loyalists and increased corruption across the country, until a popular political movement created appetite for reform. Historian and Yale professor Joanne Freeman says the Trump Administration’s gutting of…