I hope this comment becomes the top comment because it de-escalates the discussion. Like most commenters here, i think it's a bad development if people get fir

I hope this comment becomes the top comment because it de-escalates the discussion. Like most commenters here, i think it's a bad development if people get fired over their political ideas, but getting fired from a political body over political ideas seems less obviously bad. It still hits all my "people get fired way too easily over opinions" trigger points, but it's decidedly less evil than firing a civil servant who disagrees with the current administration's policies, which is how I read the article title.