“Who really rules” is not elected positions, but career bureaucrats. The elected officials who play ball get a substantial cut of the graft.
Look at the intellectual quality of the elected puppets. Public popularity contests are the way the puppets are chosen.
At any rate, no shocker that State, DOJ, FBI, CIA and likely all the other agencies are in rebellion. Senior Executive Service sees to it that “who gets elected” is unimportant and irrelevant.
The Bidens were, IOW, bag men.
No doubt Pelosi’s cancelled CONDEL with the pix of the luggage was supposed to return with case and gems.