I think that is what happened. Now, it has a life of its own. Just my opinion, but discussing "SES" as some sort of automatic Deep State entity helps to de-legitimize the movement. All it takes is from some MSM reporter to bring up the topic, point out that many of Trump's own appointments and White House hires hold that Federal civilian rank, and we lose credibility.
Not trying to start an argument or fight or anything. I had enough of that last week.
There was a post / discussion awhile back about a "keystone" and the symbol looked a lot like the logo for the SES. This may be where the alarm over SES originated; together with discussion of Obama having appointed many at the last minute, and how difficult they are for an incoming Prez to dislodge.
(See, no flames. /tips hat>)
I think the issue with it is that Obama added about 6-8K people to it specifically due to the difficulty of removing them and the power the added people had at the non elected bureaucratic level.
You make good points. And thanks for explaining SES. I am probably not tge only one who was under the impression that SES was a creation of the Obama Infestation.
It appears that, under Obama, the ranks of the SES were greatly expanded to keep Deepies firmly entrenched in the federal government.
PS: Perhaps it would be helpful if you were to offer an addendum to “SES” in Swordmaker’s LexiQon.
“SES is pretty much just a pay scale ...”
kind of, and it should be, but...
we beat the SES question to death a few whiles ago on one of these “Q” threads.
Interesting document here.
https://aim4truth.org/2018/01/03/deep-state-shadow-government-revealed-senior-executive-service/
“The Senior Executive Service (SES) in 2016 had 8,156 members who were appointees. Obama appointed over 7,000 of them to these key positions”