Rise of the Trump Loyalists
How the civil service purge damages democracy
Kathleen Walters was an IRS official who was asked by the Trump administration to act illegaly and turn over data protected by privacy law. She refused.
That led her to a dramatic decision, as she told me in the fourth episode of this season of my podcast, Autocracy in America:
The decision to leave the IRS was the hardest thing I’ve ever done and yet t…
