The success of the Trump presidency will be judged in large part on his ability to reduce the size and scope of the deep state. The unelected unaccountable permanent bureaucratic leviathan that winds itself around the body and squeezes its life out must be dismantled if Trumps legacy is to be a permanent restoration of republican government. Fortunately his administration is doing that. Quietly and without fanfare he is reducing oppressive regulation and reining in what has become the fourth all