Donald Trump’s choice of Rick Perry to head the U.S. Department of Energy may accelerate the inevitable clash between the president-elect and Washington’s bureaucrats. It would be a mistake for Trump to underestimate their ability to slow-roll his agenda. Perry, a climate-change skeptic and former Texas governor, ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 promising to dismantle the federal energy agency. The DOE is already resisting a Trump request to furnish lists of staffers working on climate issues, though his transition team has since backed away from the demand. It’s a reminder that the legions of U.S. federal workers are themselves a force in policy. Conspiracy-minded Americans worry about a powerful “deep state” that steers government activity regardless of who’s in elected office. Until Trump picked him […]