THE PURGE OF THE PROFESSIONAL CLASS: DONALD TRUMP, ELON MUSK, AND THE LIQUIDATION OF THE FEDERAL SOUL
A biting analysis of Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14385 and the DOGE-led liquidation of the federal workforce, exposing the end of the American meritocracy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The "Deep State" isn't being dismantled; it's being decapitated and replaced with a digital monarchy.
On February 6, 2026, Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14385, a decree that the court jesters in the press have framed as a "national security update." In reality, it is the final stroke of a guillotine that has been falling since the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up its command center in the shadows of the Mall.
This is the "Power & Parody" of the 2020s: a world where "protecting the welfare of the citizens" is the code for a mass purge of anyone who lacks the requisite digital fealty to the Crown.
The Aristocracy of the Algorithm
Under the iron-fisted "Workforce Optimization Initiative" led by the Technocratic Overlord Elon Musk, the American federal government has been treated like a distressed asset in a hostile takeover.
Since the 2025 inauguration, over 350,000 workers have been scrubbed from the rolls—not because they failed in their duties, but because their existence was deemed an "inefficiency" by a billionaire who views humans as lines of code to be deleted.
Executive Order 14385 is the tactical expansion of this purge, weaponizing the Department of Homeland Security to peer into the "criminal history" of every surviving civil servant. It is a digital dragnet designed to find any excuse—a protest arrest, a social media post, a tax discrepancy—to cast the remaining "serf class" of the bureaucracy into the outer darkness.
The Silence of the Purged
The numbers are staggering, yet the silence in the capital is deafening. The Department of Education has been gutted by 49%, its skeletal remains unable to even process basic student loans for the very children the elite claim to "protect."
At the Centers for Disease Control, analysts who spent decades tracking the next pandemic are now filing for unemployment, replaced by "DOGE Team Leads" who vet every new hire for ideological purity.
Donald Trump has realized that to rule a empire, you do not need a functioning civil service; you only need a loyal one. By reclassifying 50,000 career positions as "Schedule Policy/Career" (the new Schedule F), he has effectively ended the era of merit-based governance, replacing it with a system of patronage that would make a 14th-century duke blush with envy.
The Plunder of the Public Trust
While the "serf class" is told these cuts are "saving the taxpayer money," the reality is a massive transfer of power.
The $1 billion in "savings" boasted by Musk’s DOGE website—which vanished overnight when the math stopped favoring the narrative—is a rounding error compared to the trillions being redirected toward "National Security" projects like the Golden Dome missile shield.
The plunder is total: we are losing the collective expertise of our scientists, our auditors, and our caregivers, while the funds are funneled into the military-industrial maw that protects the gated communities of the elite. The "efficiency" being sought is not financial; it is the efficiency of a government that can no longer say "no" to the whims of its Lord.
The Technocratic Feudalism of the Workplace
The survivors of this purge are being forced into a new kind of fealty. With a 1-to-4 hiring ratio, the remaining workers are being ground down, tasked with doing the work of five people while living under the constant threat of a "Reduction in Force" (RIF).
The DOGE Team Leads act as political commissars, prowling the halls of the remaining agencies to ensure that no one is "subverting presidential directives."
It is the ultimate "triumph of the elite"—a government that functions as a megaphone for a single man, operated by a terrified workforce that knows their digital ID can be revoked at any moment. The "welfare of the United States" mentioned in EO 14385 is the welfare of the boardroom, not the boiler room.
The Future of the Managed Decline
As we move toward the 2026 midterms, the message from the White House is clear: the state is the President, and the President is the state.
Donald Trump has liquidated the professional class, ensuring that the only voices left in the halls of power are those that harmonize with his own.
The gallows of the civil service are standing tall, and the "Schedule F" trapdoor is ready to swing open for anyone who dares to prioritize the public interest over the private whim. The "serf class" is being told to celebrate their "liberation" from bureaucracy, even as the walls of the digital gulag are being bolted into place.
