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In reply to the discussion: I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration [View all]joshcryer
(62,270 posts)This is an incredible article, not for what it states outright, but for the audacity to act as if it is any different from any administratively run government. Each administration has policy wonks who have been doing the job for years and years, have their own internal rules and regulations (Administrative Procedure Act), and have their own, over time, culture and priorities that the people working in them will espouse.
You can change the head of an administration and you can coerce the direction it will head (the Trump administration has for example done that with the EPA), but you cannot remove the soul of an executive branch administration. This is evident in the Trump administration's historic staffer turnover rate (see The Brookings Institution), where 34% of high level staffers have resigned or been fired because they were unable to effect the change that the Trump administration wants.
So for the author to actually champion its internal administrations keeping their course isn't really a matter of surprise. If anything it illustrates an inflated ego about what can or could be done, knowing that what they want to be done, as conservatives, is to unwind the government to begin with.