We're long past the point of having a legitimate federal government. It has already wholly delegitimized itself, and on numerous occasions declared a defacto state of contempt and war upon us. We the people have simply grown accustomed to tyranny because we have deemed it sufferable.
That the oligarchy is destroying an administration that they did not hand-select to lead the nation into Statism, is to be expected when the foundations were dug up and cast out with only a manipulated shell game used to placate the masses into believing they actually have a role and hand in deciding our fate and future.
That and the Dedicated Left have decided that all power belongs only to them, and in the last few decades they have seeded the entire Beast. Presidents come and go - but K street and the lobbyists with the Alphabets and their masters - are forever.
That, and a majority of this people have decided to accept and adopt Socialism in it's varying degrees, because the promise of free shit from those who have more than they do is a stroking of the basest of human natures, and the millions upon millions of third world squatters who are exempt from assimilating into an American culture which has been declared an evil.
A Welfare State with open borders was the surest and quickest way to subjugate Capitalism for Socialism by Cloward-Pivening it to ruin.