New Delhi, Feb. 26 -- In the whirlwind of Trump's brazen assault on Washington's policies and practices, echoes of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution are flickering. Most starkly, the intimidation and sacking of the "leftist woke" officials by Trump's zealous acolytes and young "Muskrats" bear eerily resemblance to the actions of Mao and his teenage Red Guards, who in 1966 began purging "rightist capital roaders'' from the Chinese Communist Party and government.

Trump's blitzkrieg of 70 Executive Orders in his first month in power, covering every aspect of American life, has jolted Washington's ossified policy dogmas and government practices.

This onslaught is somewhat reminiscent of Mao's 1966 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which...