Kea wrote:
I meant the permit-wanking. If they can split up a bunch of white supremacists into 10 tiny park gatherings, then the Trump administration can lean on the government of DC to disperse something like the Women's March to 100 library parking lots in the DC exurbs.
Bureaucracies are interesting in that they are both a weapon, and a battlefield. If you know how a given bureaucracy works in detail, and/or have (or can make) enough friends in the right places, all manner of things that might be thought impossible can be made to happen. If you lack these things, or worse, the bureaucracy is largely hostile to you or your intentions, then it's likely that at best, nothing special happens, and you have to jump through the same hoops as everyone else, and at worst, your paperwork is denied, lost, or kept in limbo as it passes endlessly from desk to uncaring desk.
Last I checked, the US civil service and the bureaucracies of most major cities were not big fans of Trump. Sure, given members of any bureaucracy might be fans of Trump, but I doubt he has enough in the right places to actually get anything done.