New Poll Confirms What We Already Knew About Dem-Voting Government Employees and Donald Trump

Since Donald Trump became President, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) has reached all-time highs. Those who are afflicted still cannot grasp that their worst nightmare has been realized, that Trump is back in the White House, doing what he actually said he would do. The problem: Many of those who suffer the most severe cases of TDS are also federal employees. So, what happens when government work collides with those who feel like it is their twisted moral obligation to be part of the "resistance?" A new poll answers that question. The results are about like we would expect, and would be comical if they weren't so serious.

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“One of the reasons the left gravitates to the bureaucracies is because they know it allows them to exercise unaccountable power,” Tom Fitton,…
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On Thursday, a new poll released by the Napoleon Institute confirms what most of us have long suspected. Results showed that 76 percent of bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris in November said they would “do what [they] thought was best,” in regards to following legal orders from President Trump. Of those polled, 16 percent said they would follow orders, and nine percent said they were unsure. Of the federal employees who voted for Trump, 80 percent said they would follow orders even if they disagreed with them, 18 percent said they would not, and just two percent said they were unsure.

The question asked in the poll of federal employees was framed like this: "Imagine that you were the head of a federal government agency," and "President Trump gave you an order that was legal but you believed was bad policy." "Would you follow the President's order or do what you thought was best?" Over half, 56 percent, said that they would embrace their own political agendas and either "strongly resist" or "somewhat resist" Trump's America First agenda, with 16 percent saying they would “neither support nor resist." The poll surveyed 500 bureaucrats “living in the National Capitol Region and earning at least $75,000 annually," with a margin of error of four percent.

The poll results further validate the need for Trump to clean out any Biden or even Obama holdovers from various agencies. It included Trump initiating a hiring freeze on day one “throughout the executive branch,” and payouts to federal employees. There have also been deep cuts in Biden administration-era left-wing ideological priorities like transgender issues, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has trimmed the number of employees in many federal agencies.

This is going to get much worse before it gets better:

“Nearly two-thirds (64%) of the federal government managers who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris in November said they would ignore a lawful order from Trump if they considered it to be bad policy.”…
— Janie Johnson - America is Exceptional (@jjauthor) January 15, 2025

Founder of the Napoleon Institute, pollster Scott Rasmussen, had this to say about the survey results.

"Our research confirms that the Administrative State is not composed of thoughtful, nonpartisan experts who are making neutral decisions for voters. The deep partisan divide within the federal bureaucracy and the shifting public opinion present significant challenges for the current administration. However, the silver lining is that with such high levels of chaos in this bureaucratic 'civil war', there may be an opening for the common sense voice of the American people to rise above the political noise and once again become the shaping force of the nation's dialogue."

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Rasmussen could be right. Donald Trump received an overwhelming mandate from the American people in November. If left-wing ideologues are going to get in the way of that mandate, Americans will have to find ways to become that much more vocal about the fact that Trump is doing what they voted for. The other problem is that the TDS-afflicted firmly believe they are acting out of some twisted sense of moral superiority. Of course, they are far more intellectual than the smelly Walmart shoppers who voted for Trump. How could those rubes possibly know what's best for the country? The problem for the TDS-afflicted: Trump supporters can do the math, and they know there are far more of them than there are the TDS-afflicted.

Let's imagine for just a minute, if GOP-leaning federal employees (are there any?) would answer in a poll, that they would not carry out the legal orders of a Democrat president because they didn't agree with them...

Remember, when federal employees "resist," they are not "resisting" Donald Trump.

Instead, they are resisting the American electorate.
They are resisting democracy.
— jtomka🌺 (@jtomka) April 7, 2025

Editor's Note: The Deep State is working overtime to subvert President Trump's agenda and the will of the people.

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