Well, Don’s right about that. First thing a new Pres should do is fire everyone in govt with an Ivy League degree, especially in State. State’s a worse enemy to the USA than AlQaeda. Certainly they’ve done more damage with these “free trade” deals that allow our “trading partners” to retain most of their barriers. That sort of thing is the Yalie idea of free trade.
Seru, you sound suspiciously like an old professor of mine at Georgetown (non-Ivy League, mind you), who hated the State Dept with a passion. Edward Luttwak often fantasized in class about becoming President and ordering the Army Corps of Engineers to dig a tunnel with its terminus directly under Foggy Bottom, where he'd order a large chamber dug and filled with explosives. Then he'd have the tunnel sealed and the fuze lit (while being rather far away from the site himself). He said that it'd do more good for our national interest than anything else he could think of, and his was/is a brilliant mind.
In all seriousness, TPTB, many of whom are Ivy-League educated, have not been on the side of the American public or our national interest for at least the last 40 years.
Trump is a huge exception to this. OK, the guy is so full of himself that he needs doorways to be widened just to fit his head through them, but in this case he's hit the nail on the head - especially the part about not using diplomats. You see, I had roommates who were in the GU Foreign Service School, and to a person they understood the job of a diplomat as "getting treaties agreed to and signed." HORSECRAP!!! The job of a diplomat is to represent his country's interest against those of any and all other nations. Sometimes that calls for a treaty, and sometimes it calls for no treaty and a lot of diplomatic, military and economic pressure. That's what these assclowns don't understand - their very jobs. They are loyal to the idea of diplomacy and getting along with others as ends unto themselves, whereas they are mere tools (diplomacy and getting along, not the people involved - though sometimes they are also tools). Loyalty to their own country is, at best, far down the list of priorities for most of them; for some, its an active evil to be combatted without mercy. Frankly, it is for people like this that masonry walls and hemp ropes were created.
What I wouldn't give to see someone with similar viewpoints sitting in the Oval Office and running our government's machinery.