I was thinking about what happened there. Bolton may have been a peace gesture for the neocons. Trump needed GOP backing and it wasn't there. They couldn't stop Trump head on, and he and his backers had taken them all by surprise. I think they tried to steal that election too, but the steal was intercepted by loyal military elements. So what next ? If you can't control the president you control the people around him. You can isolate and control the outcomes of the decisions. The president is in charge of like 2 million employees. No one man can run that. Everything has to be delegated through the hierarchy, and thousands of people have to be appointed, in many cases vetted and approved. Where do we get these people? Well, through the existing hierarchy for the most part, and someone brings a list of candidates, and you select from that. So Trump removes someone from the bureaucracy, and then appoints the next civil servant in line. He should have brought in outsiders - his own people. Sometimes he did with great success. I knew there was trouble as soon as I saw those who had brought Trump to the office were being purged out, one by one, and set aside. Later the FBI was attacking all of his people. Isolating him like Nixon. Like he was a crook. He should have fired them all right then and there. Count the bodies afterwards. Perhaps he was worried about impeachment. Trump is selecting from a list, and the enemy controls the list, so Trump is appointing either one of their people, or someone irrelevant, but not one of his people. Then the appointees simply gum up the process. Like the Attorney Generals - Barr - funny business at the FBI and the DOJ. In the end even the military betrayed him and the country. The JCS. The final backstabber? Vice President Pence. Trump ends up surrounded by a lot of people who are working against him behind the scenes, or even in some cases in open direct defiance. You just can't have that in any organization. I don't think he realized that was going on, at least not at first. We all certainly underestimated the level of opposition and the lengths they would go to to overthrow him. In many ways it was a miracle that he achieved all that he did. The fact remains, every president faces this same hurdle. There is simply too much for any one man to do. Notice how all of the presidents seem to rapidly age while they hold that office. The stress must be extreme, even for a stress junkie like Trump. Then, there are only so many days in office, and only so much can be done each day. It takes two to three years just to get the appointees filled. Before you know it, you are running for office again. The reality of the Presidency is, without strong congressional backing, you might get one, or maybe up to three major initiatives launched, and maybe one accomplished, in your four year term. The political opposition has ways of throwing up roadblocks and eating up time, such that they can blind you, and isolate you from your own support. They run out the clock on you and that is what they did to Trump. They pinned him in place with false accusations, blinded him and sabotaged his efforts by controlling the people around him, took out his actual supporters, and then ran out the clock. They are still working on all that now. They don't want him ever coming back.