Trump Takes On The "Deep State"...

I don't think this will end the "Deep State", but it may be the beginning of the end for them!   The evidence is mounting that members of the federal bureaucracy, Obama appointees in particular (but not exclusively; and to their great shame, even some Trump Administration appointees!) have been conspiring behind closed doors to disrupt the Trump administration's policies, and "stonewall" legal evidence that appears to incriminate them for so doing.  They apparently felt they could get away with this malfeasance, because their Government Employees contract protects them from being fired for political reasons.  Or, perhaps they were so sure that Hillary would be elected,  that they could risk their (even illegal) behavior, and she would ignore their malfeasance.

All they have to do to protect themselves from being fired is to characterize the attempt to fire them as being politically motivated, and the courts will throw the case out, not because there is no merit to it, but because their contract is so air tight that it is difficult to prove, legally.  The whole process, if successful, takes anywhere from six months to a year to fully accomplish, and is so time consuming, and probably expensive, that most agencies don't bother, but merely demote, and  reassign to less important tasks.

This "protection" was  written into the contracts, ostensibly to protect bureaucrats from being fired automatically when the opposing party gained power through election, and merely wanted their own people in position.   But, the implication was obviously to allow them to keep their jobs, and demonstrate that they could implement the policies of the new administration, even if they politically disagreed with them.  It has now become obvious that many feel they can subvert the new administration's policies, at will, and expect their jobs to be protected by this one-way-protection contract!

President Trump has just signed an Executive Order, "making it easier to fire incompetent workers", according to news reports.  I don't know the details of it. but if it truly does, then this will be a major step n the right direction.  Of course the unions will scream "unconstitutional", even though there is nothing in the Constitution about Union contracts, and then we will have to put up with insufferable rhetoric about ridiculous twists of facts to characterize this as the most legally repugnant effort by any President in history, ignoring the fact that no President has ever had to deal with such evil efforts to subvert his presidency while in office.

Then there is the quagmire of negotiating a new employee contract, that both protects the employees from political firing, and guarantees that they will perform the legal, and legitimate policies of the new administration, even if they personally object to them.  We may have to deal with periodic walkouts of the bureaucracy, which will shut down the government, from the bottom up, instead of from the top down.  But, after many hostile bureaucrats drain their bank accounts, during the walkouts, and others lose their court cases to sue for reinstatement, we may actually see some real progress in draining the "Deep State", which I consider to be more important than "Draining the Swamp"!!!

This whole process could take years to accomplish, dragging out beyond the term of President Trump.  It will then be imperative to keep the Democrats out of office, and out of control of the Congress, until this is done!

But, by the grace of God, this, too, may prove Not to be impossible !!!