Tom Friedman writes in his NYT essay The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away about how truth, justice, and the American way are disappearing. The termination of McEntarfer at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and cyberwarrior Jen Easterly at West Point are particularly galling (the latter after another loony Loomer post).  Friedman quotes Easterly from her response on LinkedIn:

As a lifelong independent, I’ve served our nation in peacetime and combat under Republican and Democratic administrations. I’ve led missions at home and abroad to protect all Americans from vicious terrorists …. I’ve worked my entire career not as a partisan, but as a patriot — not in pursuit of power, but in service to the country I love and in loyalty to the Constitution I swore to protect and defend, against all enemies…Every member of the Long Gray Line knows the Cadet Prayer. It asks that we ‘choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong.’ That line — so simple, yet so powerful — has been my North Star for more than three decades. In boardrooms and war rooms. In quiet moments of doubt and in public acts of leadership. The harder right is never easy. That’s the whole point…To lead in this moment is to believe that with unshakeable certainty, to resist the cynicism that corrodes our institutions, to meet falsehoods with fidelity to truth and adversity with resilience.

This government is losing the best among us.