President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to the federal bureaucracy appears to be working.
Nothing bedeviled Trump’s first term more than the outright resistance and hostility within the federal government to his administration. Armies of hostile bureaucrats stymied his plans, coordinated with legacy media to cook up negative stories, and generally behaved as if they—and not the president—had a right to run the executive branch.
Trump is now better prepared to take on the Leviathan.
The #Resistance isn’t looking nearly as formidable these days. Its defeat was deeper, the outrage from the American people is sharper, and Trump is more relentless in getting a handle on the federal apparatus.
That isn’t to say that resistance isn’t taking place. On Sunday, a small group of federal employees gathered at the Office of Personnel Management to…
