I think you are close to right here. I have to tell my friends who don’t understand this, that he has a goal of getting to mars and will align with anyone who will not be in his way.
Democrats had the exact same chance of having him on their side as republicans did. Instead they maligned him and lost the election. They also couldnt get on board with crypto, and lost the election, and kept pushing misguided DEI related stuff that few people actually wanted and lost the election.
They could have come to center on any one of these and won the election.
But there is a second part, that no one is addressing, they instead run around like the sky is falling.
Nothing stops states from creating their own departments and colluding. In fsct most states have copies of the federal agencies. Thats the entire point of killing federal versions.
In what world is it possible that economic, cultural and infrastructure conditions rules would apply to 310 millon people equally?
So why is there so much redundancy?