they are a lower part of the “Deep State” and don't even realize it.....
I was a supervisor at a large defense agency in St Louis years ago. Overtime was baked into the culture and scheduled religiously. Shops would sometimes assign certain people overtime because they “needed the money”. When a push came down from headquarters to reduce overtime things got ugly. The employees had adjusted their spending habits to having consistent overtime pay.
There’s a famous episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the Enterprise is locked in an epic battle with the Borg. The Borg adapt so rapidly that none of the Enterprise tactics will work for very long.
Finally they win when Data identifies a low-level system that is lightly protected and uses it to put the Borg to sleep.
I see parallels. The Deep State tried to take Trump out with a full frontal (DOJ and Intel) and they failed. They are trying again using less protected low-level systems (Public Health and the Postal Service).