The point is a politicized bureaucracy is an even bigger problem than a corrupt administration. Administrations can be exposed and forced to fire people or be voted out. But if the rot extends to the bureaucrats, they have civil service protection and a much bigger fix is required. I hope all we have here is a corrupt administration.
I read the piece but I guess I misunderstood your comment.
The problem is that you can’t divide them. The bureaucracy didn’t get politicized on its own. It always had the potential to be used as a political weapon because of the power that had accumulated in it with its expansion over the decades, but it took a corrupt and dictatorial administration (with its community organizer administrator-in-chief) to politicize it and harness its power to impose policies through bureaucratic harassment and threat.