Many of these civil servants work for the government because they believe in big government; they already lean left. And they were turbocharged by an Obama administration that ruled by regulation and executive order, thereby handing to the bureaucracy decisions that are supposed to be made by an elected legislature. The career bureaucracy was put in charge of vast new programs—regulating energy, transportation, water, health care, taxes, finance. And as the Obama administration had no interest in policing them, they were left to run the show. This is the bureaucracy Trump inherited—big, bold,
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