Goes way back before Soetero.
State Dept has been a home for anti-American scumbags since at least FDR’s time.
FDR’s 2nd veep was a leftist creep (nice rhyme scheme) and dropped from the ticket in 1944, in favor of Truman. The pro-Soviet jackasses that riddled the gov’t did it because they wanted the same for all of us. In “The Managerial Revolution”, the author referred to the Roosevelt regime as a failed or poor-man’s version of the same kinds of regimes in power throughout the world at that time (I don’t recall the exact wording, read it 40 years ago). A good many people who grew up in that period (including most Great Depression kids, such as my late parents) came away with an odd devotion to the notion that, yes, two parties are somehow a necessity, but that just the one needed to be in power all the time.