Quote (Pollster @ Jul 15 2016 07:24pm)
The most remarkable thing is what it's done to so many careers and what it could end up doing to so many more, in both parties and in nonpartisan agencies. Public policy is going to have its impact on the citizenry, but no one ever thinks about the fact that some of us are going to actually have to run the fucking country these next four years, and Trump's nomination has made that job significantly harder all on it's own even if he loses the GE. His nomination alone has set the Republican party and fucked a lot of careers, especially in the Republican party, and in the event that he did win the GE a lot of people who have worked in both parties or in nonpartisan capacities would then be in a position of having to ask themselves "well, do I press pause on what I'm doing and risk my career in order to serve my country, because I know his administration is not going to be able to fill all the posts they need to, let alone be able to fill them with A-level and B-level staff like they're supposed to?"
Making that sacrifice is probably the end of your career. Choosing not to do it could make you a scumbag, because holding out and passing the job on to someone less qualified will only cause innocent people pain and could even put the country at risk, because that's how big of a threat Trump is to our democracy itself. That's the remarkable thing about his nomination: the sheer stakes it carries for so many people who have spent their careers trying to build a better country, regardless if they work for that party or this one, or that one and now this one, or for no party at all.
Some things are better off dead, especially if your job is worthless and doesn't produce anything.
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