BRATTLEBORO — In 2017, one of President Trump's key advisors, Steve Bannon, said the administration's goal would be the “deconstruction of the administrative state.”
Years earlier, Republican theorist Grover Norquist said he aimed to shrink government “to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
Given Trump's unprecedented staff turnover rates, estimated at 65 percent, his refusal to fill important positions in the State Department and other agencies, and the ongoing government shutdown, it appears that extremist Republicans are having their way.