Good point.
When you think about it, he had to assemble a cabinet, advisors, NSC members, Ambassadors, the whole nine yards, and look at what happened in those months between him winning the election, and being inaugurated.
The Deep State began the process of poisoning the well to cripple him, beginning with General Michael Flynn. They began the process of taking anyone who was on his team (and not “their” team) and doing everything from spying on them or setting them up (as they did to Flynn) to ensuring people being considered for positions knew they would have no future in government or media if they took jobs with him.
And those that were bore the brunt of it. It is astonishing Trump was able to accomplish anything at all, yet he managed to do so. Think of what might have taken place in those four years had even a large part of his “own” party put themselves to the task and helped him.
Instead, the vast majority (though not all) didn’t want to upset the gravy train, and either meekly
Yet, we have people, even on this very forum of Free Republic, and on this thread, who are too intellectually narrowed to understand that, or too ideologically poisoned to see it.
They may disagree because they think some candidate is better than another one, and I don’t per se have a problem with that, but saying someone who likely didn’t understand the extent of the Deep State until he was being actively persecuted by it is incompetent because 80% of the candidates for a given position are captured out of greed or beholden to the deep state by blackmail or other means, well, it isn’t a well thought out proposition.