[deviate_X]

The "Deep State" is just inertia.

It is only because America has elected a +radical president has this become somewhat apparent. But the inertia is democratic as it represents the democratic process and accumulation.

It is especially important when you have edge-case of a president wining, but with 46% of popular vote and 26.5% of the potential vote.

The "Deep State" being the actual institutions of law and governance is actually what makes democracy sustainable.

[adventured]

There's nothing radical about Trump's policies at all. In fact, he's hardly right of center on most things.

1) He's strongly in favor of keeping the welfare state and all the entitlement programs. Left loves it.

2) He wants to expand the military. Right loves it.

3) He's pushing a mixture of common right and left policies, including lower taxes and regulation, infrastructure spending. He's promoting American jobs / workers first (thus unions have applauded several of his efforts, such as killing the TPP), which used to be a left platform.

4) He wants to scrap the ACA, right loves it. But has talked about either expanding Medicare to all people as the solution, or kicking it down to the states to run their own ACA equivalent programs, both of which the left would be in favor of vs the worse conservative alternative of a total wipeout.

5) He's in favor of a strong border. This is something both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were supposedly in favor of. Bill Clinton talked openly about the need to stop illegal immigration because it was taking American jobs etc.

6) He ran on a platform of putting an end to the US proliferation of entanglement overseas, particularly when it comes to wars in the middle east. George W Bush ran on a platform not so different.

Radical? Where? There isn't anything even remotely radical about Trump other than his personality type. His policies are rehashes of decades of policies espoused by other Presidents.

Whether Trump won 44% or 47% or 50.1% of the popular has absolutely nothing to do with the deep state's response to him. The deep state operates entirely independent of the electorate.

None of the three Clinton runs for Presidency achieved over 50% for example. With only 43% of the popular vote in 1992, and an openly anti-military bias, Bill Clinton didn't have these kinds of problems with the deep state in his first term.

[wfo]

An assault of against the entire legitimacy of the judicial branch is hyper radical. Naming the news media the enemies of the American people is hyper radical. Illegally ordering legal permanent residents be detained without due process is hyper radical.

Some of his policies aren't radical, sure. He is a populist. The fact that one time he said he likes the welfare state and one time he said he didn't, or that one time he said he wants to scrap ALL of ACA and then some other time he described all of the policies in ACA and said they were good and wouldn't go away doesn't mean he's moderate, it means he's incapable of telling the truth because his mind changes too quickly to have a consistent position. But regardless, the president doesn't set policy, congress does. He leads the country in words and action, acts as the head of state diplomatically and oversees enforcement of the laws which the legislative and the judicial branch decide for him.

In that sense as the leader of our country he is the most radical president I can think of since FDR who was a wartime leader and was rapidly approaching a dangerous permanent control of the country.