The lesson of the Trump Presidency was that elected officials don't run things. Bureaucrats do.
For more than a generation now, millions of Leftists have been going to college and law school, planning to get into millions of government sinecures, where they can run things according to their own skewed judgment. This is true in every state, large city, and especially the Federal Government. They are the specialists, administrators, coordinators, inspectors, agents, and so on. They are now in effective control of the EPA, the IRS, the FBI, the CIA, Treasury, DoJ, INA, and on and on. The President and other elected officials can issue orders, commands, instructions, and whatever else they want, but the Deep State will refuse, thwart, "slo-walk," ignore, and do whatever the **** they want to do...and none of them can ever be fired.
To illustrate with a contemporary example, look at how SENATOR Ted Cruz demanded that the FBI explain their failure to even interview that Epps character who was on numerous videos fomenting the January 6th crowds...and they told him to go **** himself! A generation ago, the FBI would have jumped on that request immediately with no bullshit.
It appears that the U.S. electorate will come briefly to its senses this November and put Republicans in control of Congress, but that will be just a speed bump on the road to perdition.
Glad I'm 72 years old.