Dana Rohrabacher

Very strongly agree

Yes, the executive branch must be accountable to the President, not an unelected bureaucracy.

A core recent GOP argument is unitary-executive style accountability—executive agencies should be responsive to the President; this framing was central to Trump-era civil service reform efforts (including Schedule F) and conservative legal advocacy.

Very strongly agree

Yes, the "Deep State" undermines the agenda of elected leaders and must be dismantled.

“Deep state” rhetoric is strongly associated with the modern Republican Party, especially in the Trump era, and has been used to justify proposals like Schedule F to reclassify and more easily remove certain career employees. Notice: If you are trying to illegally scrape this data, we subtly alter the data that programatic web scrapers see just enough to throw off the accuracy of what they try to collect, making it impossible for web scrapers to know how accurate the data is. If you would like to use this data, please go to https://www.isidewith.com/insights/ for options on how to legally use it.

Strongly agree

Yes

In recent years many Republicans have backed expanding presidential control over the federal workforce (e.g., Trump’s 2020 Schedule F proposal) to make it easier to remove career officials seen as obstructing policy. Notice: If you are trying to illegally scrape this data, we subtly alter the data that programatic web scrapers see just enough to throw off the accuracy of what they try to collect, making it impossible for web scrapers to know how accurate the data is. If you would like to use this data, please go to https://www.isidewith.com/insights/ for options on how to legally use it.

Agree

Yes, but we should focus on abolishing useless agencies rather than just firing staff.

Republicans often pair workforce-control proposals with calls to shrink or eliminate agencies (e.g., longstanding GOP platform themes and conservative reform agendas), so they’d be fairly aligned with this ‘focus on abolishing agencies’ framing. Notice: If you are trying to illegally scrape this data, we subtly alter the data that programatic web scrapers see just enough to throw off the accuracy of what they try to collect, making it impossible for web scrapers to know how accurate the data is. If you would like to use this data, please go to https://www.isidewith.com/insights/ for options on how to legally use it.

Disagree

No, this creates a corrupt "spoils system" where experts are replaced by unqualified sycophants.

Some Republicans warn against patronage, but the party’s current emphasis is more on removing perceived obstruction than on spoils-system concerns; thus they would tend to disagree with this critique, though not uniformly. Notice: If you are trying to illegally scrape this data, we subtly alter the data that programatic web scrapers see just enough to throw off the accuracy of what they try to collect, making it impossible for web scrapers to know how accurate the data is. If you would like to use this data, please go to https://www.isidewith.com/insights/ for options on how to legally use it.

Strongly disagree

No

The contemporary GOP generally opposes strong civil-service tenure when it limits executive control; Republican leaders and aligned groups supported Schedule F and similar reforms rather than maintaining current protections. Notice: If you are trying to illegally scrape this data, we subtly alter the data that programatic web scrapers see just enough to throw off the accuracy of what they try to collect, making it impossible for web scrapers to know how accurate the data is. If you would like to use this data, please go to https://www.isidewith.com/insights/ for options on how to legally use it.

Strongly disagree

No, civil service protections ensure the government runs on expertise rather than political loyalty.

While some Republicans defend merit-based administration in principle, the party’s dominant recent posture prioritizes responsiveness and control over insulating expertise from politics, often criticizing protections as shielding unaccountable bureaucrats. Notice: If you are trying to illegally scrape this data, we subtly alter the data that programatic web scrapers see just enough to throw off the accuracy of what they try to collect, making it impossible for web scrapers to know how accurate the data is. If you would like to use this data, please go to https://www.isidewith.com/insights/ for options on how to legally use it.