Unelected, lifelong bureaucrats in the federal government act as if they are above the law and run the country regardless of elected officials.

“Which is again, I'll just go back to when there are these lifelong bureaucrats that believe they're above the law. That there's this sensation that they can pull the levers of power silently behind the scenes because they know better.”

The federal government is effectively run by a permanent administrative bureaucracy that persists across administrations and can wait out elected presidents.

“We call ourselves a democracy, but are you a democracy when the elected leaders come and go and the really powerful bureaucrats running the the government, running these agencies stay for decades and decades. And if the president disagrees with their policy, they can just wait them out.”