The Maoist struggle sessions hosted by the US State Department to help employees cope with Donald Trump’s election to a second term in the White House have drawn the attention of a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Californian Republican Darrell Issa, who is in the running to be the next chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, is demanding straight answers from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
As a Senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I write to you regarding reports of official post-election State Department therapy and listening sessions. I am concerned that the Department is catering to federal employees who are personally devastated by the normal functioning of American democracy through the provision of government-funded mental health counseling because Kamala Harris was not elected President of the United…