In my almost 40 years of teaching, the perennial question that arose whenever an administrator would admonish teachers for having political opinions and, perhaps, expressing them was, “How are we teachers supposed to be examples of citizenship to our students if, in order to enter the classroom, we are expected to leave our Constitutional rights at the school house door?”

This giving up Constitutional rights is not limited to school teachers, but to most people who work for governmental agencies.

It is not, or at least hasn’t been an official limitation, merely one imposed by supervisors who do not want their own political agendas questioned. Although not necessarily policy, it is common practice.

Well, until now.

Quietly, at the end of November, the Trump administration barred nearly two million federal employees from speaking in any negative fashion about Trump.

Just as phrases like “climate change” and “global warming” cannot be used by federal agencies that deal with the environment, the words “resist” and “resistance,” as well as any discussion of impeachment are banned.

Although all federal employees are subject to the Hatch Act that restricts them from participating in partisan political campaigns while at work or when they are acting in their official capacity, those who spoke favorably about Trump under those conditions were allowed to do so freely.

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But, with people like Kelly Anne Conway stumping for candidates in her official capacity on selected media outlets, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) decided that several Trump officials had violated the act by using their official Twitter account to tweet out #MAGA and retweeting partisan research.

In response, the OSC told all federal employees that the terms “resistance” and “#resist” are now forbidden because they have become connected with the electoral success, or failure, of the president, and advocating for impeachment is the same as advocating against Trump because he has declared he was running for a second term almost immediately after beginning his first.

So in the eyes of his administration and the OSC  no one with a federal job can speak out about Trump in a negative way as he is a political candidate, and this violates the prohibition on campaigning on duty  for or against a candidate while federally employed.

It is a clever and biased reading of the act.

The Hatch Act is supposed to stop the Trump administration, or any administration,  from using federal employees as campaign staff or political props, but this action stops federal employees from having any publicly expressed opinion on the administration. It goes too far as it refers only to those things that are perceived as anti-Trump.

Millions of federal employees are now barred from speaking out against Trump.

Trump has tried to demand personal loyalty, and as that has not been 100% forthcoming, he has found a way to make it mandatory.