I pretty much agree. Even if he believed in it, he wouldn't be able to do it. On one hand, he doesn't have a plan, as you say, to neutralize the more than predictable inner opposition from the bureaucracy.

Which is the most surprising part of this whole second presidency run thing, in my opinion. One would have thought that he had learnt the lesson. Even if he doesn't intend to reduce the size of the State, Trump should have a plan ready to be deployed on Day 1, to expel ipso facto not just the top brass of the "Deep State", but four or five layers deep of bureaucracy.

Then again, in a country as pathologically litigious as the US, we all now that the Neocon Machine, and more broadly the Dems, have a whole battery of law suits ready to be launched the very minute Trump takes possession of the chair, to impede and derail any and all movements to clean house. We saw that in 2016, how they consumed easily more than half of Trump's presidency with law suits and law fare. They'll do it again, times ten.

And finally, even if he really wants to do it AND pours his whole willpower onto it, AND overcomes the barrage of lawsuits, the activist judges, the traitorous bureaucrats... he still needs to deal with Congress.

Because I'm not an expert, but I think a lot of ALL THAT, like the federal income tax, the Federal Reserve Act, and the size of the State has to do with Congress, not with the Executive.