These are the senior posts at State. Start from the top. Observe how many of them are vacant. At the very top, these are mostly political appointments that should have been filled by now with Trump administration personnel. Lower down the chain, it's a mix of career and political posts. When you do find a job that is actually filled, note how many are "Acting" or, in many cases, are filled by a career person who has been there for years.
Draining the swamp is a fine slogan, but at some point, if you want to effect change, your own people need to take over. Personnel are policy. I assume Tillerson has a small cadre of political appointees in the Office of the Secretary, but below that level, there is simply no Trump Administration at State. The appointments haven't been made or, if made, have yet to be confirmed.
No one is home. It's now nine months after the election and six months after the Inauguration. The Trump Administration hasn't shown up yet. The next Democratic administration isn't going to have to worry about burrowed-in Republicans and a conservative underground at State. At the rate we're going, no Republicans will have gotten inside the building to begin with.
From the article linked at post #44 of this thread:
"Trump and Tillerson have yet to nominate candidates to fill more than 83 senior-level positions and ambassadorships, and that's only a partial count. At the level of assistant secretary – the folks who actually manage day-to-day diplomacy – out of 22 positions, only two people have been nominated, and one confirmed. Empty offices include assistant secretaries for Near Eastern affairs, South Asian affairs, European and Eurasian affairs, Western Hemisphere affairs, East Asian and Pacific affairs, African affairs, political-military affairs, arms control, population, migration and refugees, democracy, human rights, labor and many more.
"One gap is especially ironic. Despite Trump's pre-election harping on the deaths in Libya in 2012, when a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi was attacked and the American ambassador killed, there's no assistant secretary for diplomatic security yet."