> Of the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil servants that the former president and his allies deride as the “deep state.” The author is purposefully conflating rank-and-file employees with high-ranking political appointees and heads of the three-letter agencies. The 'putting people out of jobs' argument. Yes, those people should be out of jobs, but not because they're the 'deep state' being talked about. Their jobs shouldn't exist at the Federal level to begin with.