You can't implement your program if the bureaucracy is sabotaging you all the time. You can't get "socialism in one country" if your bureaucracy is all about "permanent revolution." In the same way, you can't implement "America first" if your bureaucracy are all convinced Globalists. No, like Stalin, you first have to replace all the old bureaucratic guard with your own stalwarts before you have any chance for success. Trump must do the same, and hopefully he's figured that out now.
I always believed that Stalin's 1937 methods were perhaps a bit, well, draconian, and not at all necessary here in 'Murca, but now that irrefutable evidence of a coordinated, relentless, three-year-long soft coup attempt is out there for all to see, I'm beginning to think that Uncle Joe may have been on to something . . .
Stalin was a murderous thug and we shouldn’t want to learn anything from him .
Lets look at Jefferson instead:
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”