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an expression once popular in President Andrew Jackson’s era: “the spoils system”. Cronyism, in a nutshell, where officials of the right stripe get the spoils of a dismantled civil service.

The “spoils system” of the 19th century filled the government with party loyalists and increased corruption across the country, until a popular political movement created appetite for reform.