Deep State resistance taught Trump he needed to tame bureaucrats

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : President Andrew Jackson restricted government employment to four years because with lengthier service men were "apt to acquire a habit of looking with indifference upon the public interests."
42% : Career lawyers at the Department of Justice's Civil Rights division impaired the division's investigations and prosecutions by refusing to work on matters such as affirmative action, religious liberty and biological males in women's sports.
38% : The Defense Department abused the security clearance system to oust Adam Lovinger after he identified the misuse of government funds to entrap Trump associates.
38% : During his first term, Trump also learned that federal bureaucrats were intent on slow rolling or completely obstructing his policies.
31% : Yet the experiences of the first Trump administration gave Trump and DOGE good reason to believe that such an approach would bog down.
31% : Experience led me, along with Trump and many other Republicans, to conclude that subversion was widespread, and hence subversives needed to be removed from the federal bureaucracies henceforth.
29% : For this reason, Trump and those around him spent the last several years screening individuals for these jobs.
27% : Once Trump was elected, FBI bureaucrats like Kevin Clinesmith and Brian Auten and Justice Department lawyers like Bruce Ohr and Dana Boente kept the espionage going through additional acts of duplicity.
25% : President Bill Clinton cut the federal civilian work force by 427,000 during his two terms in office.
24% : USAID bureaucrats deliberately concealed the agency's humanitarian programs in Syria because they feared Trump would terminate the programs if he learned about them.
23% : The weaponization of the government against Trump and his supporters extended into federal agencies.
22% : One of the chief lessons Trump learned from his first administration was that senior career bureaucrats, left to their own devices, were willing and able to sabotage him.

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