The Federal City.

Nobody in our Federal City, Washington, the District of Columbia, is a Republican.

Oh, there's a few, but not enough to fill a phone booth, except in those years when a Republican Administration is in power.  Those brave souls tend to come and go, usually every two to four years, but very few stay in D.C. after their Republican benefactor leaves office.  Why?  Because Democrats are too smart to fill their appointments with Republicans...      

But what remains is 400,000 Federal Workers, almost all of whom are Democrats.  Doubt me?  96.1% of all registered voters in Washington, D.C. voted for Hillary in 2016 (Federal Elections Commission).  Why?  Because they just luuuuv spending!  Lots and lots of spending!  And they just luuuuv being the recipient of all that largess.  

Big Government!  Hooray!  Because that means they have a job, and they get to keep it!  Even, as usually happens, when the next Republican President comes to town... 

I was stationed for a time in Washington, D. C. whilst on a mission from God way back when to save my Country from communism.  Well, okay, not God, exactly.  More like the United States Army.  And I did a pretty good job, you'll note.  I defeated the Soviet Union back in the last century, but I cannot take all the credit.  There were a few others involved.  

Ahem...  

But while there, serving in that oxymoron known as "military intelligence," I discovered some stuff that you, my loyal and faithful readers, might like to know.  So here goes...

"You could shoot a cannon off down Constitution Avenue and not hit a Republican."  A new friend told me that almost as soon as I hit town.  He was warning me to keep my political persuasions to myself if I intended to try and scare up a date.  I recall thinking that he must be mistaken, or maybe jesting.  He wasn't...  

When I was coming up I used to think that whenever a new administration took charge in D.C., the incoming new POTUS cleaned house.  I thought when a new President was elected he swept all past political appointees away, and replaced them with new folks more closely aligned with his own political persuasions.  That only makes sense, right?  How else do you go about accomplishing your political objectives unless you have dedicated professionals to help you?

I thought the incoming POTUS used the 90-or-so days post-election and pre-inauguration to push all of his predecessor's loyalists out the door, and then find and appoint a whole new cadre to run Washington.  I thought that.  Maybe you thought that, too.  

But we would both be wrong...

As it turns out, and as you've no doubt discovered if you've been paying any attention at all to the events unfolding in the Trump Administration over the past three years, there's a permanent group of Democrats living and working in D.C.  I say Democrats because that's the Party that benefits most by continued, unending, enlarging, expanding, growing Federal public spending.  And in maintaining the levers of power.  And they're not likely to support any proposal that reduces that spending.  

And that would include the preferences of the Republican boss for whom they currently work.  

Think about it:  Republicans always campaign to go to D. C. and reduce the size of Government.  To reduce spending, and kill wasteful programs, and return the power back to the people.  Those desires are in conflict with the Democrats who feast on Government spending, and will fight to keep it humming along without any interference from those who seek to reduce it.  And usually, as we've come to know, that resistance occurs just below the radar, so we have to dig to uncover it.

So when a Democrat Administration takes over, they're ready and willing to take up arms in support of that Party's core goals.  But when a Republican Administration is elected, there's usually not enough experienced professionals still living and working there to fill the tens of thousands of personnel appointments necessary to keep the behemoth of our Federal Government running.  So most often they have no choice but to continue utilizing the services of the political appointees already serving in those positions.  

And those appointees are almost always Democrats.

And as we've learned in the case of Trump, just waiting for the chance to destroy his Presidency.  Whistleblower, anyone?  Drip, drip, drip...

Trump discovered that.  His predecessors discovered that also.  Except in Trump's case, his political enemies in what is called the "deep state," mostly located in the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA, aided by the outgoing Obama Administration's efforts to pull strings and plant land mines, were willing to attempt a "soft coup" to unwind the results of the 2016 General Election and remove him from office.  That is not conjecture.  We now have proof that this happened, and investigations are underway by Bill Barr, the new FBI Director, to prove it.  The Durban Report, investigating all the machinations outlined above, is also due out soon.  That's the one that will recommend criminal referrals.  I'm pretty sure they're are a lot of very nervous ex-Obama appointees in D.C. these days...  

For the first time in the history of America, so far as we know, a "coup" was attempted.  And failed.  And what we're learning in the aftermath should be a lesson to us all. When you have hundreds of thousands of people working in all aspects of the Federal Government (nearly two million of them!), who each depend upon the continuation of the funding that keeps their inflated paychecks cashing (the average Federal worker in D.C. makes a salary of $100,000+), without regard for whether that spending is in the Country's best interests, anyone who stands in their way is the enemy.  Trump was - and is - the enemy.  The people who voted for him are the enemy.  We're told that nearly every day.  And we saw what they were willing to do to make sure he couldn't keep his campaign promises... 

Yet, in spite of it all, he's flourished.  To their collective chagrin.  And a few of them must be looking over their shoulders these days.  I think they may need to all start lawyering-up, as the saying goes...