Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich

[In The Daily Signal]

Daily Caller News Foundation – A recent survey of senior government employees revealed that 42% of them plan to work against the incoming Trump administration.

According to Tyler O’Neil, managing editor of The Daily Signal, “A surprising number of federal government employees admit they are gearing up to act like a deep state, opposing the incoming second administration of Donald Trump.”

He cited a poll by RMG Research Survey, which had been commissioned by the Napolitan Institute.

This should not surprise us. Much of the federal bureaucracy was recruited from liberals who came to Washington to impose their values and views on the American people. Many of the regulatory agencies consider it their jobs to force the American people to do what bureaucrats proscribe.

Trump and the Make America Great Again movement are a mortal threat to these bureaucrats. If President- elect Donald Trump does what he said he would do during the campaign, he is going to threaten the lifetime work of many senior federal bureaucrats. Everything they spent years trying to impose on the American people will be wiped out by the Trump administration.

( Newt Gingrich is an author, commentator, and former Georgia congressman who was the 50th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.)