Steve Bannon prefers to talk about the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” but that amounts to the same thing.
These ideas are not original to Vance or Bannon: In the 21st century, elected leaders such as #HugoChávez or #ViktorOrbán have also used their democratic mandates for the same purpose. Chávez fired 19k employees of the state oil company; Orbán dismantled #LaborProtections for the #CivilService.