We’ll have to agree to disagree I guess. Again, my take is that some of this early staffing or swamp creatures was deliberate. The government was too infested with swamp to take them all out initially. Time was needed to monitor and gather intel on the swamp before they could be taken out. Having some of them in your midst, early on helped accomplish that. They were being monitored all along, IMO.
A preposterous theory. Bringing in your active enemies to head up the major departments in your admin is a recipe for staffing, policy and execution disaster. In politics, it is true that personnel is policy—and Kushner has overseen a full-blown disaster on that front. It is amazing that Trump, with his regular instincts, intelligence, life experience and common touch has been able to overcome so much of it to get so much done. (Though still a fraction of what smart staffing and initial appointments would have got him.) Now we are more likely than not seeing his ultimate legacy and prospects for a second term being undone beforw our very eyes, as well as starvation for millions abroad, the loss of tens of trillions in Americans’ wealth, and hundreds of thousands of American’s life work in their small businesses. Our civil liberties? Freedom from China’s ascendancy to dominance? Short of a drastic turnaround, out the door.