Agreed, @Bigun, and it's shocking naiveté to not recognize the existence of the deep state.
Not surprising here, where the driving force is whatever ideas can be construed to have an anti-Trump angle.
I remember my father, talking about career, non-political appointees, in government.
One his personal friends was Howard Jarvis, of Prop 13 note.
A group of them had been with Reagan, since his Governor days.
The point was, when a President took office, his power was limited to a relatively small number of "Political" appointees.