“The Federal Bureaucracy™, aka Deep State, is in complete rebellion and will not carry out direct legal Executive orders. The Feds have gone rogue.”
This may be true. It is difficult to envision Robert Mueller and Jim Comey’s FBI, now under the director of Christopher Wray, arresting any statue destroyers. Even if someone is arrested the DOJ, filled with career civil service lawyers hired and promoted during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years, will make the decision to prosecute — or not.
Clinton and Obama aggressively worked to staff the federal bureaucracy with social justice warriors. George W. Bush did not weed out the Clinton appointees and most of his appointments were “go along” and complicit moderates. Trump has experienced great difficulty identifying, hiring, getting Senate approval for, and putting in place swamp draining change agents so very little of the filling of the bureaucracy with leftist social justice warriors has been undone. The career bureaucrats can act with impunity (slow walking and blocking) against orders from the few Trump political appointees who are trying to shift the mission of federal departments. Undoing 28 years of staffing the bureaucracy (Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama) with leftists and complicit moderates will take another two decades and since Trump’s hands have been tied during his first term, the effort has not really begun.
Consider senior leftist career bureaucrat, hired during the Clinton and Obama years are every day hiring new social justice warriors, fresh from college campuses (Marxist indoctrination centers) to fill entry level jobs in every federal department. In 20 years the new hires will be the senior hiring bureaucrats. The rot is deep, wide, and permanent due to civil service laws restricting firing and disciplining even in cases of pure insubordination and unlawful behavior.
For those who don’t believe, how many law breaking DOJ, IRS, FBI officials from the Obama Administration (Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Rosenstein, Yates, Strozk, Lois Lerner etc. have been indicted, much less convicted and sent to prison? How many calls do you hear demanding they be brought to justice from the media, or even Republican politicians? Crickets.
The next one they indict, convict, and send to prison will be the first they indict, convict, and send to prison will be the first.
That’s the problem, in a nutshell.