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The Trump administration is replacing professional bureaucracy with a corrupt, personalist system that extracts rents through force.

Drawn from what Daniel W. Drezner said

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  1. Daniel W. Drezner Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations
    In practice, Hochman's hire is another nauseating sign that the Trump administration is destroying the bureaucracy in favor of some corrupt, neo-royalist husk of an apparatus that mostly posts memes and occasionally deploys the 82nd Airborne to extract rents.

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