No, federal workers are not "elites"

I regret to inform you that Compact Magazine is at it again

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Leighton Woodhouse, on DOGE’s attacks on the federal workforce:

What we’re seeing is the latest battle in a long war between two factions of the American elite...Silicon Valley’s recent MAGA converts have convinced themselves that the civil service and the intelligentsia it represents are …