There’s a separate (but also important) issue of how people on Facebook make “friending” and “defriending” decisions based on agreement/disagreement over various political and philosophical issues, including the criteria they use. But that’s a topic probably best saved for a later time.

The big problem is that with the new administration came rampant uncertainty about future costs of employment. Law firms, just like everyone else, had no idea what it was going to cost them to hire new employees, so they stopped hiring. Or reduced hiring to only those people who were certain to pay off.

That’s interesting given the standard Republican claim that trial lawyers and Democratic administrations go hand in hand.