For 47 years, I’ve dreamed of what Trump is doing now

For 47 years, I’ve dreamed of what Trump is doing now: Something happened to me in 1978 that caused me, a politically disinterested twenty-something, to say to myself, “If I ever become President, the first thing I would do is fire the entire State Department down to the third level.” Now, 47 years later, Donald Trump has acted on that prescient — but politically uninformed — statement and is taking my wish into the entire administrative state. So, what happened to drive that long-ago political wish?