Tristan_C
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Okay, I looked back.If you'll look back, I haven't actually make the explicit claim that Trump is no threat to the- well, you're now saying "the bureaucracy", but I believe the original phrase was "unelected creeps"- I asked you why we should accept your claim that he is. I asked you what Trump has done to threaten "the bureaucracy", and so far you haven't given a clear answer. Your position is not simply assumed to be true until somebody else proves the inverse; that's just not how discussion works.
I admit that I did not realize your initial question, "What has Trump actually done to threaten these entrenched interests, beyond general mis-management of the federal apparatus?" was a non-sequitur. I had constructed a picture of events where an outsider came into the town rattling his saber, and the "unelected creeps" fought back, leaning on the media to sell their accusation that he was a Russian agent and promote their investigation.
So you were asking me for evidence of what Trump has done that would cause these entrenched interests to view him as a threat, and you did it by ignoring the content of the post, which described how they leapt into action against him.