The tricky thing about undermining the bureaucracy is that you need to get the military on your side. In most 3rd world hellholes the military ends up firmly on the side of the judiciary
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They usually assist each other with the judiciary legitimizing military coups and the military backing up banana court pronouncements with implicit threats of force
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But I think it really comes down to class composition. You see this harmony between the judiciary and military in states with underdeveloped middle classes where the military leadership and judiciary are largely recruited from the same post-colonial elite class
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In the US, the military has traditionally had very strong ties with the lower middle class and for it to undermine the WWC vote and tie itself to the judiciary would instantaneously destroy its credibility
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so in a conflict between a liberal bureaucracy and a populist right wing executive I would not bet on the military coming down on the side of the former
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The military in the US is a Scots-Irish outpost.
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Yes but it's complicated by an increasingly cathedralized officer class and a lack of centralization in its leadership structure
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Of course liberals are doing a great job shooting themselves in the foot by demonizing law enforcement/ICE/military, they can't really help themselves
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