Treason Season??

[Labster]

At this point, it's pretty clear your government's become a kakistocracy. The bureaucracy isn't supposed to function.

Not sure what a kakistocracy.  Is it rule by Kakifly?  I could go for a government where they have afternoon tea-time every day, and occasionally play some wicked riffs on Elizabass.

It seems Mike Huckabee tweeted to express his pleasure at the McCabe firing.

I Huckabees.

Trump does realize that the bureaucracy is fighting him; he's not completely clueless.  But they have this theory about the Deep State which is this sort of Obama-Hillary-Pelosi conspiracy to keep him from doing the people's governing.  This plays very well with his base, so he thinks it's a good thing to talk about.  He makes a lot of comments that that criticize his own government that sound crazy unless you're viewing the government through this lens -- that somehow, as president, he's outside the real inner power circle of the government.

Though by his own actions, he's proving the lack of this sort of state-within-a-state in the American government.  While we do have a military-industrial-intelligence complex, it's clearly not ironclad.  I mean, someone let him into the White House.  What we have is more of a lack of a conspiracy -- just bureaucrats doing their best to resist orders that the President made while he was sundowning.  There's no control structure here, because the bureaucrats are just individual Americans are just making choices they think will best protect the republic.

The real risk here is that enough of the good bureaucrats will decide enough is enough, and move into industry.  But if Trump thinks bullshit firing threats like his are going to scare people into submission, he's got no idea what he's doing.  Well, it's just as true if you lose the first clause on the last sentence.