Posted on 02/23/2025 6:05:21 AM PST by MtnClimber
There was a moment in Sean Hannity’s Fox News interview with President Donald Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk when Musk seemed to contemplate — as if for the first time — the existence of what used to be called the “permanent bureaucracy” and now sometimes goes by “deep state.”
“There’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet,” Musk said. “And you look at, say, DC voting. It’s 92% Kamala … I think about that number a lot. That’s basically everyone. And so, if the will of the president is not implemented, and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented, and that means we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy.”
Musk made a minor error in the District of Columbia voting numbers. Yes, in the 2020 election, with former President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, 92.1% of district voters chose Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, versus 5.4% for Trump. In 2024, when Harris was the presidential candidate, 90.3% voted for her versus 6.5% for Trump. So, Musk was a couple of points off for 2024.
You get the idea. The district, home of the federal government, is a single-party jurisdiction, and it has voted 90%-plus for Democrats for president for the last 20 years.
But, the permanent bureaucracy does not all squeeze into the district. It also lives in several surrounding counties. Montgomery County, Maryland, voted 75% for Harris, while Prince George’s County, Maryland, voted 86% for Harris. In Virginia, Alexandria voted 77% for Harris, Arlington County also voted 77% for Harris, and Fairfax County voted 66% for Harris.
So yes, the heart of the deep state is overwhelmingly Democratic. You will not be surprised to learn that, of the federal employees who contributed to a presidential candidate in 2024, most gave to Harris. The publication Government Executive reported that federal employees donated “at least $4.2 million” in the 2024 race, and nearly 84% went to Harris.
Breaking things down a bit, Government Executive reported that more than 61% of Trump’s relatively meager donations came from two cabinet agencies, the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security. The rest of the executive branch’s money went to Harris. “The Education Department had the most one-sided donation breakdown,” Government Executive said. “Employees there gave more than $25,000 to Harris and did not make a single donation to Trump, according to FEC records. That was followed by the Environmental Protection Agency, with 99% of donations going to [Harris], the Energy Department at 97%, the Commerce Department at 96%, and the State Department at 94%.”
When it comes to federal government workers, political donations go almost entirely in one direction....SNIP
The parasite vote.
2 death attempts. It’s serious.
Why Trump is so threatening to the permanent bureaucracy
Because they realize they may not be permanent?
President Trump and Elon Musk are the greatest threat to RAT bureaucrazy.
I think some of their reaction/feelings are outrage versus feeling threatened (which they do). With numbers like those in the article (and witnessing these people first hand), they believe that the government belongs to them. They own, they run it. Trump is an uninvited, unwelcome interloper and how dare he and his J6 cretins and rubes from flyover country invade their turf. That’s the outrage. The threat is they realize, that, at least for now, the jig is up. The bureaucracy considers this their Holocaust. And they will seek revenge on their Hitler who caused this.
ping
So basically, the democrat party is the source of our problems as a country.
Yrp.
Yep.
That has been true for a very long time
Do you remember that the government employee union, the SEIU was only made possible by a little noticed (at the time) EO from JFK? Can you imagine the hootin' and hollerin' if that EO was reversed, the SEIU decertified, and saner, performance based criteria were put in place for government workers?
That we know of, probably many more that we don’t know about.
Make DC a nonvoting territory of the US—and close down the DC courts.
So nonsubscribers get the preamble, but not the answer to the title?
No governments should have unions.
The article’s focus on the bureaucracy is correct but very incomplete.
Surrounding the bureaucracy is a complex set of US and international NGO’s and corporations that get money from the bureaucracy and then do something or other with it in the most complex and impossible to follow manner. This provides employment and huge tranches of money for left-wing causes and puts money in their pocket to donate back to politicians who will look the other way on the bureaucracy’s fraud.
Taxpayers fund their own enslavement.
Does the article ever make the point?
We, the normal people, are the deep state / leftist’s Hitler as far as they are concerned.
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