How the federal government has always worked in the past:

How the federal government has always worked in the past: - Clarice Feldman - Jeffrey A Tucker@jeffreytucker

• Entrenched civil service completely ignores elected representatives and instead develops rich relationships with industry.
• Presidency is largely ceremonial while executive staff is there for resume padding.
• Congress throws as much money as possible to industrial pressure groups in exchange for financial backing of election campaigns.
• Media backs it in exchange for advertising from same industries and content direction from contacts within bureaucracy.

The overwhelming crucial fact of our times to understand is as follows. 

• Trump administration has attempted a hostile takeover of this deeply entrenched system.

You can agree or disagree with the policy choices – some I like and some I do not – but the big picture is about the fundamental institutional disruption. 

That's the reason reason for the 

• unending court challenges, 
• the nonstop media frenzies, 
• the freak out panic among industry, 
• the meltdown of academia, 
• and so on...