Trump is smart and has very competent advisors. He is not relying on the old elements in the State Department and the CIA.
He has already done some removal at the top in the State Department. Cleaned Mahogany Row.
Next will be the CIA. I suspect both agencies are still badly riddled with subversives.
The Executive order to Department heads within the Executive Branch was an amazing bold move. I believe he will actually get that done.
“Trump is smart and has very competent advisors.”
Well, that’s been my perception all along, but there’s still this creeping doubt whether Trump can remain above the fray as the outsider he is. Color me jaded, I guess; I’ve seen one — or thirty — too many “good men” bamboozled by establishment cronies inside The Beltway; watched them get elected on high hopes of real change only to become conformed to that world and end in establishment ignominy.