1- I’ll never understand why Bush didn’t do this. Because Bush is a good cop. Obama is a bad cop. They both want us to confess that the State is Lord. They are the two sides of a two headed coin.
We know this because he did not clear out the communists, America haters, careerists, islamists and others.
We know this because he accomplished zero things conservative, and accomplished many things obviously statist.
We know this because he never defended himself; nor did he attack his "opponent" with anything approaching the vigor that was needed; he was a sandbagger.
Laura Bush is pro abortion.
We got duped, plain and simple.
No true revolution, nationalist or communist, ever succeeded unless the bureaucracy, military and civilian, was cleaned up. Lenin abolished the Tsarist secret police and bureaucracy and established his own. While some ex-Tsarist military personnel were assimilated into the Red Army, they were junior officers and NCOs who were not overtly hostile to the revolution. After Ireland successfully established near-independence from Britain, the Royal Irish Constabulary and British civil service were eliminated; the Garda was established as a Free State national police force and a new Irish bureaucracy established. On the other hand, neither Salvador Allende in Chile in the 1970s nor the leftist government of 1930s era Spain fully purged their respective armed services of traditionalist officers. They paid the price.
Trump will have to follow the cleansing practices of Lenin and De Valera if he truly wants to revamp the Federal government.