Populists Blamed for Targeting Civil Servants

“Fiddling the figures,” “dodgy dossiers,” “deep state retaliation.” On both sides of the Atlantic, career public servants are finding themselves in the crosshairs of conservative populists who are questioning their political neutrality as well as the impartiality of their counsel. With populists and civil servants from Hungary to Britain, as well as the United States, clashing, some alarmed senior bureaucrats are warning that civil services risk emerging from an era of populism...

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