After the US election but before Trump took office I’d been preparing an article on how the bureaucracy would likely fight back against any changes he might try to make. But things are moving so fast over there that some parts of what I wrote are already outdated. Nevertheless there were strategies and tactics specific to America that I figured the ResistanceTM would still use, since they’d employed them against Trump 1.0. In order of battle:

  1. Relying on the Administration knowing less than they did about myriad bureaucratic details. One of Sir Humphrey Appleby’s classics.
  2. Assuming that Trump and company simply would not see them. Places like the virtually unknown department set up by Obama, the US Digital Service, which was supposed to just be about fixing government IT issues, starting with the bungled launch of the Obamacare website. Trump 1.0 foolishly trusted them and you can read about the shit they pulled on him here (plot spoiler: Trump 2.0 turned this department into DOGE).
  3. Coordinating with the MSM and the Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) in Washington D.C., to drum up fierce PR campaigns explaining the hurt and pain and suffering and injustice that Trump was unleashing by “reforming” these wonderful organs of government. This might slow things down if pauses were provided so that things could be studied in more detail.
  4. Last and not last, working with lawyers of NGO’s and friendly Democrat Attorney Generals and Governors across the US to craft legal cases against Trump’s actions and orders and the shopping around to find friendly District Court judges to issue Stays, Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO’s), Premliminary Injunctions (PI) and such like. (District Courts were created by Congress to take the load of Federal cases of the Supreme Court).
    TRO’s were a particular favourite, stalling everything while it was settled up through the courts, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court, and hopefully not before the Mid-Term elections when the Democrats might re-take the House or Senate and stuff the reforms that way. Just one example was when in early 2017 when a District Court judge in Hawaii issued a TRO and then a PI to stop Trump limiting immigration.

As it happens Trump 47 has learned a lot from Trump 45 and has smashed through almost all these barriers, but the judges remain as a last defence. So far the following restraints have been slapped onto the Administration:

There had earlier been some Washington D.C. judges openly defying the President’s order that cases still in progress against J6 protestors be dismissed with prejudice, meaning that charges cannot be laid in the future. Three of the eight federal district judges in D.C. who are on senior status dismissed them without prejudice.

What’s the definition of a coup again? We’re going to have to add judges to it.

All this led Elon Musk to ask, during an Oval Office presser the other day:

If the bureaucracy is in charge then what meaning does democracy actually have? If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives, the president, and the Senate, and the House, then we do not live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy.

He was being diplomatic on that last; it would mean we’re living in a soft dictatorship.

With uncanny timing a legal expert on a CNN panel confirmed that’s exactly how the Bureaucrat-PMC-Democrat-MSM-Left class think it should be.

https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1889674506391736414

The Professional Management Class in all its disgusting, anti-democratic rotteness.