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Is that what's happening though? From my perspective, I've observed the following:
First, all of the people tasked with carrying out this administration's agenda are political appointees. This means that all of these people can easily be replaced in four or even eight years.
Second, and relatedly, I don't think there is a plan to make the civil service more right-leaning, and even if there is such a plan, it would be ineffective because nearly all of the people being fired are either not performing tasks that could be described as either left or right or the tasks they perform change with agency policy, which again, is a product of political appointment. Further, if the goal is to create a more right-leaning civil service, why are the most right-leaning government agencies (Veterans Affairs and Defense) facing the deepest cuts? Instead, I think the plan is to create the appearance that you've significantly shrunk the size of the government by firing tens of thousands of people (maybe in the low hundreds of thousands when all is said and done) and cutting "waste" and "fraud". However, neither of things actually affect the national debt in any significant way or drastically change the political orientation of the country in the long-term.
Lastly, and most importantly, there does not appear to be a deep state, or at least the deep state is nothing like what its proponents claimed it was. Consider the deepest of the alleged deep state operations: foreign policy. Trump has been able to upend the global order unilaterally and with virtually no resistance. Decades of carefully crafted alliances and policy are being thrown out the window and there are not secret operatives in the shadows stopping this. In a way, this is a massive blackpill for some Trump supporters because it demonstrates that everything done so far can just be reversed under a Democratic administration.
Last time he was in the White House, Army generals were bragging to the press about giving false information to their commander-in-chief. If there was no deep state, such a thing would be unthinkable, or immediately, and he would be free to do all what he's doing now 8 years ago. The fact that he's able to pull it off now, after 4 years of consolidating a coalition within the US government proves the opposite of what you're claiming.
And US defense officials bypassed Obama when they shared intelligence with allies who then shared it with Assad. There were multiple instances during the Obama administration where generals publicly disagreed with him and were accused of undermining him (especially with re to Afghanistan and Syria), including when McChrystal and his staff made comments to Rolling Stone against senior White House officials. If your definition of the deep state is the military undermining the President, that was a phenomenon well before Trump's first term. That's just politics.
I think the fact that Trump has been able completely redefine the parameters of American foreign policy is evidence against the type of deep state pushed by right wingers.
Correct, Obama was also frustrated by the deep state on several occasions.
Do you think you can restate the idea of the deep state pushed by the right-wingers, in a way that the right-wingers will recognize as their own?
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