@austinkocher I think it can be both personal revenge (Trump has form on this) and part of a broader strategy. That strategy is like the Reagan-era policy of redeploying "awkward" civil servants to posts where they can't do as much harm (there's also an element of "punishment" in this). Or it could be like a Gulenist-style infiltration of the apparatus of the government. Or perhaps a better comparison would be with how the right wing in the US takes its lead from places like Orbán's Hungary.

Speaking of, it will be interesting to see if/how civil society in Hungary can rid itself of such ideological appointees now that the climate seems to be shifting...