“A suggestion to Trump for a counter-strategy should he get elected. For any bureaucrat . . . .”
Trump is one person. The bureaucracy has hundreds of thousands of politicized activist leftist employees legally protected from being easily fired. In addition the national media is poised to make an issue of any attempt to remove disruptive bureaucrats from their assignments.
A key lesson from the first Trump term was Trump’s failure to staff the cabinet and key executive branch appointed positions with capable and talented individuals committed to his agenda. He was slow in staffing the administration, using Obama holdovers for months, and many of his most critical cabinet level appointees - Sessions at Justice, Preibus and Kelly as WH chief of staff, Mattis at Defense, Tillerson at State actively opposed him.
If Trump is to take on the bureaucracy he needs to have an administration of capable fighters ready to go to work on Inauguration Day. Can Donald Trump attract, vet and appoint an A level team of warriors capable of taking on the entrenched bureaucracy? He can’t do it by himself.
Mitch McConnell, as beholden to the Chinese, made clear he would not move Trump's nominees without his direct assent.