People had a good freak over John Bolton, and thus far he has proven himself to be by-the-book. I'm thinking Kavanaugh may have been another unwilling blackmail target of the cabal prior to DJT's arrival.
I have no doubt that they were weeding out more and more good people in our government as the administrations went on, with Obama just outright stocking deep state/cabal cronies in every conceivable position of power. Must have fumed the ones who were blackmailed. I'm sure many of them would love to administer some heavily justified payback to the swamp.