I fear in ten years Trump will be seen as the guy who talked right, but didn't get the job done - because he failed to clean house aggressively when a chance still remained. He came into office thinking that - as in a corporation - the Federal Government had institutional memory that needed to be preserved, not realizing that Clinton/Bush/Obama had pretty much overseen the replacement of all competent and reputable Federal employees with ideologues and idiots. He has already wasted three years of his Presidency battling sabotage from these people, when a group of strategic firings on Day One might have saved him immeasurable grief.
Even more recent hires like the Espers and the Wrays keep turning on him - and I don't think it is ideological as much as that these types of men rose in the Federal hierarchy because they had something to hide that could be used to control them when the time came. Trump completely underestimated the ability of the Deep State to blackmail people inside the system - those it has carefully helped to rise in anticipation of they day they will need to be used.
Given that Trump's attempts to be conciliatory to the existing executive structure of the firm - as he seemed to see it - got him nothing, it is time to use what is left of his term - even if it is only until January, 2021 - to aggressively clean house and seek people outside of DC to help do it. Otherwise, his Administration may go down in history as the last, great missed opportunity to halt the slide into collectivism.
I listened to Giuliani’s latest interview of the founder of Papa John’s who learned from the hiring of the first cook (with no prior experience) “to hire for attitude and train for aptitude.” It occurred to me that there is not one decent person left in DC. They ALL need to be fired and replaced with decent folk from the Heartland, who are God-fearing, honest, and loyal.