How would a second Trump presidency reshape the US government?

Credit: Unsplash. The polarising, poll-leading politician's agenda From sweeping out opposition to gutting the civil service, Associate Professor David Smith predicts what Trump 2024 would look like. Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, a zealous  convert  to Donald Trump's cause, once offered an  expansive vision  of how Trump should rule in a second term: "fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." Polls a year out  from the 2024 election suggest Trump has a good chance of winning it. If he does, he and his allies want to be ready to run the country in ways  they were not  in 2016. For more than a year , groups supporting Trump have been publicising plans to  fill government roles  with  proven Trump loyalists  if he wins a second term. Trump believes his first term was undermined by " deep state " bureaucrats, " weak " lawyers and even " woke generals ". Some of his opponents argue that government officials indeed acted as " guardrails " during Trump's administration, saving the country from his worst instincts.