LEFT TURNS FEDS INTO NEW SPOILS SYSTEM: Progressives promised a non-partisan, Merit-based federal career civil service will deliver public services in a vastly more efficient and professional manner than the hated Spoils System being replaced.

Well, here we are 142 years later and what do we have? A government workforce that functions on pretty much exactly the same basic premise as the old Spoils System. Check out how it happened in my latest PJ Media column.