Well I sure won’t call you naive, because I don’t think anyone anticipated anything like this level of resistance and insubordination. Remember when Bush the Younger took office the Clinton kids swiped the “W” keys off the keyboards and Bill and Hillary looted the furniture but it was pretty much an orderly transition of power. The difference is, W did not threaten any of the Deep State power base, in fact they were probably happier with him than they would have been with Algore because Bush’s roots are deeper (no pun intended).
Trump is everything you say, but they see his independent, dynamic leadership as a threat, not as an asset or role mode. It’s less that they are not loyal, it’s that they are loyal to the wrong things.
This article, more than any other single thing, helped me to see the Republican Party as it really is, the “R Branch of the Ruling Class Uniparty”:
https://spectator.org/39326_americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution/
We are a nation conceived by geniuses and now run by idiots. If that wasn’t bad enough our elected idiots are corrupt and bankrupt of honor, decency, and integrity.
Think of our Founding Fathers and the sacrifices they were willing to make to create this beautiful experiment, then compare them to Comey, Mueller, McCabe, Bush, Obama and Clinton.
I sincerely hope that when I die I never meet any of our Founders as I would not be able to look them in the eye when they ask, “What the heck happened?”