This is supposedly an adult professional, but he is unable to grasp one simple and time proven fact: The Democrat Party will manufacture controversy and foment hate against whoever the Republicans run. Trump or not.
Do you really think he doesn’t grasp that?
What you’ve articulated is one of the furst lessons an active member of the elephant party learns, either by being told by someone more experienced (like yiurself), or by personally observing the phenomenon in question in the field (in the wild). So Mick Mulvaney certainly knows better than to put an old war horse out to pasture that is stronger than, and
can still outfight, every other horse in the stable.
Was Mick Mulvaney a foe of the deep state? This is not to be presumed without evidence, such as verifiable (and substantial—contra John Kerry) war wounds. If he ever was, he must have fallen asleep and allowed his body to be snatched. Because masculine, wise, red-blooded pubbies would never say what he just said to the enemy.