Have you forgotten Trump's first presidential term? The resistance [1], the gleeful celebration of the "deep state" fighting back against Trump [2], a US general calling his Chinese counterparts before the 2020 election [3]?
Bureaucrats cannot fight against a democratically elected executive, call themselves the resistance and then be surprised when they are treated as the resistance.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/trump-fauci-deep-...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-top-general-secretly-cal...