Employees will often internalize past actions they took, whether forced to by their bosses or not, as good actions. they will even build up a worldview to support those actions.
For the alternative is to accept that you were bad, or even evil.
That means leadership can change the course of an organization by ruthlessly making them do other things until people internalize those things as the right thing, or leave.
That only explains decay though, not the magical idea that under the right party things spring back. The best to hope for is a democratic president to slow down the decay. But it is simply so much easier to tear things down than to build things up, that it will take a lot of democrats to see actual improvement.
That means leadership can change the course of an organization by ruthlessly making them do other things until people internalize those things as the right thing, or leave.
That only explains decay though, not the magical idea that under the right party things spring back. The best to hope for is a democratic president to slow down the decay. But it is simply so much easier to tear things down than to build things up, that it will take a lot of democrats to see actual improvement.