Rather than some secret anti-Trump fifth column inside the career bureaucracy, public servants function as part of the constitutional autoimmune system at work.
Mr .Bruno, whether you intend to be or not, you are one of the most eloquent gaslighters I've encountered in a long while.
WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION does it say the unelected bureaucracy is to "provide an added check and balance on executive power?"
"Rather than some secret anti-Trump fifth column inside the career bureaucracy, they function as part of the constitutional autoimmune system at work." Did you skip the definition of "irony" in school?
The "Deep State" need NOT mean a grand cabal, in fact it is insane to believe such stupidity outside of a movie theatre.
The term can mean "the emergent property of a self-interested, unaccountable administrative state, acting in concert - NOT coordination - to stymie the will of the people in their electoral choices." Alignment of interests is all that is required for each individual to take or NOT take action that observed on a macro level would indicate the existence of this Deep State. Against a man who promised to fire 50% of 2,100,000 lavishly paid public sector union members, it is not hard to discern how those interests are aligned.
Incompetence, bureaucratic inertia and a range of tactics like slow-rolling requests, accidentally shredding, say, FOIA requests and the like can all undermine a President's agenda. Which you seem to applaud by saying the bureaucracy is a "check" on the Executive Branch.
You create false strawmen when you say "If you believe in a metastasizing bureaucracy, then you ALSO MUST call fine patriots part of a vast conspiracy." I, too, have worked with many excellent patriots in various governmental departments. Their hard work and self-sacrifice does not change the fact that a vast administrative state is smothering the nation in a nanny state whose actions are killing us by a thousand paper cuts. The two phenomena can exist together, and demonstrably do.
I understand where you are coming from, but all of us face challenges when trying to see a problem from myriad angles. Given your experience and dedication, you are rightly outraged and appalled when you hear about "conspiracy theories" which bear no resemblance to the on the ground reality of the hardworking (mostly), dedicated (mostly) professionals who work in the government. What you are NOT hearing is what we in the private sector know which is this massive, bloated bureaucracy is too big to be effective, has proven to be more expensive than we can afford and will fight like any organism for its survival. Parasites kill their hosts all the time.
So, while you are right about the "Deep State" as a figment of the QAnon tinfoil hat brigade, you are wrong to believe that the same effects cannot be achieved in a distributed organic manner as the bureaucracy's immune system reacts to attempts to trim it down to size.
And you are 100% wrong about an unelected cadre of people - no matter how well-intentioned - who exist to be a further check on the Executive Branch. Completely and utterly wrong.
Mr .Bruno, whether you intend to be or not, you are one of the most eloquent gaslighters I've encountered in a long while.
WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION does it say the unelected bureaucracy is to "provide an added check and balance on executive power?"
"Rather than some secret anti-Trump fifth column inside the career bureaucracy, they function as part of the constitutional autoimmune system at work." Did you skip the definition of "irony" in school?
The "Deep State" need NOT mean a grand cabal, in fact it is insane to believe such stupidity outside of a movie theatre.
The term can mean "the emergent property of a self-interested, unaccountable administrative state, acting in concert - NOT coordination - to stymie the will of the people in their electoral choices." Alignment of interests is all that is required for each individual to take or NOT take action that observed on a macro level would indicate the existence of this Deep State. Against a man who promised to fire 50% of 2,100,000 lavishly paid public sector union members, it is not hard to discern how those interests are aligned.
Incompetence, bureaucratic inertia and a range of tactics like slow-rolling requests, accidentally shredding, say, FOIA requests and the like can all undermine a President's agenda. Which you seem to applaud by saying the bureaucracy is a "check" on the Executive Branch.
You create false strawmen when you say "If you believe in a metastasizing bureaucracy, then you ALSO MUST call fine patriots part of a vast conspiracy." I, too, have worked with many excellent patriots in various governmental departments. Their hard work and self-sacrifice does not change the fact that a vast administrative state is smothering the nation in a nanny state whose actions are killing us by a thousand paper cuts. The two phenomena can exist together, and demonstrably do.
I understand where you are coming from, but all of us face challenges when trying to see a problem from myriad angles. Given your experience and dedication, you are rightly outraged and appalled when you hear about "conspiracy theories" which bear no resemblance to the on the ground reality of the hardworking (mostly), dedicated (mostly) professionals who work in the government. What you are NOT hearing is what we in the private sector know which is this massive, bloated bureaucracy is too big to be effective, has proven to be more expensive than we can afford and will fight like any organism for its survival. Parasites kill their hosts all the time.
So, while you are right about the "Deep State" as a figment of the QAnon tinfoil hat brigade, you are wrong to believe that the same effects cannot be achieved in a distributed organic manner as the bureaucracy's immune system reacts to attempts to trim it down to size.
And you are 100% wrong about an unelected cadre of people - no matter how well-intentioned - who exist to be a further check on the Executive Branch. Completely and utterly wrong.