Together, Trump's candidates constitute an attempt to wreck the American government.

All three of Trump's most high-profile picks, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Heggisth, and Matt Gates,

are defined publicly, both by the things they've said in the contempt they have for the role

of the departments they're now going to lead,

and the views that they have that are in stark contrast to many of the Republicans

who have now been asked to vote to confirm them to lead those agencies.

Here's how Steve Bannon reacted to the choice of Matt Gates, SAG.

Matt Gates is the fiercest of the fierce warriors.

He is the firebrand of firebrands.

He's going to hit the Department of Justice with a blow torch.

And that blow torch is a guy named Matt Gates.

I could say a lot of things about Bannon, but at least he says it all out loud, right?

And he's been saying it for years.

Trump's picks are part of this project that Bannon has described four years now publicly as the destruction of the administrative state.

The fulfillment of a vision Bannonannon has been fighting for years.

Here he is making that point earlier today.

We're going to burn some of these institutions down to the ground

because you know why? They need to be burned down to the ground.

I think that the first time that Steve Bannon ever said the phrase,

and it actually is the deconstruction

of the administrative state, which is the same thing as the destruction of it. But I think the first

time he said it out loud to everybody in the world was in February of 2017 at CPAC, where he was,

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