I'm reminded that there were 91 million people in Russia in November 1917. 200,000 of them were Bolsheviks, up from 24,000 the previous February. Yet they overthrew a monarchy hundreds of years old and set out on a ruthless geopolitical experiment that lasted 74 years. It kinda feels like the good ol' boy network was totally cored out by Trump and the new guy is basically going "Hey lefties we got money come talk us out of it." Any previous administrative handover would have included a lot of negotiation and revolving-door diplomacy between the mutual members of the good ol'boy network because a mandarin is a mandarin and ideologues rarely get to work more than four years at a time. But those guys are gone, man. Anyone with any professional aspirations took early retirement.