let him directly communicate with the people together mao and his followers would thoroughly undo the communist party's countrywide bureaucracy grinding governance to a halt in the lead-up to the capital attack trump also attempted to destabilize the government bureaucracy with a combination of purges and pressure as the NUMBER_TOKEN election popular votes were being counted trump attempted to deny and overturn the election he and his legal team filed lawsuits to throw out legally cast ballots and challenge vote certification processes he pressured governors secretaries of state and state legislatures to nullify results and investigate supposed incidents of fraud when people defied his pressure he purged or attempted to purge them however this did not succeed as well as he would have liked for instance u.s attorney general william barr stated on december NUMBER_TOKENst that the fbi found no evidence of large-scale voter fraud this is despite barr's repeated prioritization of trump's political goals like making frequent false claims about the integrity of mail and voting leading up to the election barr's resignation in late december NUMBER_TOKEN made jeffrey rosen his acting replacement trump pressured rosen to help him fight the election results and rosa declined trump wanted to go to the supreme court to invalidate the results but again rosen declined trump then entertained a plan to replace rosen with someone more amenable to his plans however rosen and various high-ranking members of his department threatened to resign trump subsequently backed off the threat the united states government and the communist party of china run vastly different structures trump's actions focused on the federal bureaucracy the various organs of the national government and the individual state's vote counting efforts he did not attempt to mobilize his grassroots supporters to attack their local officials in attempt to overthrow their local governments many of these state and local administrations do not see much everyday supervision from the federal government but if you want to disrupt everyday governance those should be the bodies to focus on by contrast NUMBER_TOKEN years into the people's republic the communist party led the country as its vanguard party every village workplace and school had a local party branch the local party secretary exercised great authority in the area's governance mao's actions directly mobilize the youth to attack those authorities undermine its power and successfully ground the country's everyday workings to a halt despite his sterling reputation and position mao zedong did not have absolute power over the party it was not his plaything his actions were constrained by his commitments to ideological goals his available resources and the pressures and expectations of various political groups thus throughout the revolution mao played both sides of the situation to best maximize his position radicalizing and de-radicalizing as needed as events unfolded here is an example as the cultural revolution progressed mao realized that the masses did not unite in one group against the party bureaucracy rather the people split into two factions usually classified as conservatives and radicals radicals most tended to be discontented folks those with bad family backgrounds unhappy rural folks and whatnot they had grievances with society and sought change in one way these malcontents met mao's goals they can be mobilized to attack the party bureaucracy but left unchecked they can very easily form their own groups and seek specific livelihood goals jobs
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