There is an administrative "deep state" (for lack of a less-loaded word) at all American institutions: government, corporate, non-profit, etc. Corporations and

There is an administrative "deep state" (for lack of a less-loaded word) at all American institutions: government, corporate, non-profit, etc. Corporations and governments and other institutions first and foremost serve themselves. Changes in laws and leadership are often helpless against an army of creative legal teams, adverse middle-managers, and just general bureaucratic resistance. A new CEO, a new president, a new law, a new supreme court ruling -- they'll move the needle a lot if the bureaucracy is motivated to change, but will barely move the needle at all if not. I once worked for a CEO and he would frequently talk about how it was nearly impossible to change his own company. This wasn't even a large company. He just knew that certain ideas would meet bureaucratic resistance and would be slow walked until they died on the vine -- even if the change was the right one.