What Trump’s war on the ‘Deep State’ could mean [Video]

At one campaign rally after another, former President Donald Trump whips his supporters into raucous cheers with a promise of what’s to come if he’s given another term in office: “We will demolish the deep state.”In essence, it’s a declaration of war on the federal government—a vow to transform its size and scope and make it more beholden to Trump’s whims and worldview.Related video above: Fact check after Trump speaks to the media before hush money trial The former president’s statements, policy blueprints laid out by top officials in his first administration and interviews with allies show that Trump is poised to double down in a second term on executive orders that faltered, or those he was blocked from carrying out the first time around.Trump seeks to sweep away civil service protections that have been in place for more than 140 years. He has said he’d make “every executive branch …