Trump and the Deep State
February 28, 2016
Lew, for those LRC Political Theater enthusiasts concerned about the vital question of the relationship of Donald Trump and the Deep State, there are probably no definitive answers at this point in time. But there are indeed some definite clues of which we should take cognizance.
The above Alex Jones interview of Trump is very revealing concerning how he sees his role as a decisive game changer and potentially the most militaristic president in America’s history. Will that bold assurance please the Pentagon or cause it alarm? Retired General Michael Hayden, who recently led the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, said the U.S. military would likely refuse to follow certain orders from Donald Trump if he is elected to the White House in November and follows through on campaign promises (see here, here, and here.) Is this former top spook acting as a surrogate spokesman for the Deep State? If so why didn’t its deferential shock troops refuse to follow the illegal and unconstitutional orders issued for the preemptive invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc., and the invasive regimen of intrusive surveillance of the American people and their intimate and personal private communications? Hayden’s objections are hollow.
Recently a columnist got into serious trouble for jokingly calling for the assassination of Trump, yet stentorian George Will compares Trump to the “dangerous” populist demagogue Huey Long who was assassinated when he threatened the FDR regime in the 1936 election. Is Will suggesting a similar course of action? As I pointed out in an earlier LRC blog concerning how the Deep State may possibly view Trump: “Do they see him as a proto-American Mussolini such as TR in his third party run in 1912, preaching a phony “progressive” message to the gaping masses while under the thrall of the House of Morgan? Or as Huey Long in 1936, John Kennedy in 1964, Robert Kennedy in 1968, George Wallace in 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1980, Gary Hart in 1988, Ross Perot in 1992, or Howard Dean in 2004 as someone potentially dangerous who needs to be neutralized?” Will goes on to note: “Trump’s Republican opponents are running out of days, places and people to stop him. Candidates, voters and other daydream believers rail against the ‘establishment,’ waiting for this corpse to resurrect itself. But it died 50 years ago, on April 24, 1966, when its house organ, the New York Herald-Tribune, expired. The establishment had been comatose since Barry Goldwater brushed aside its feebly arrogant attempt to derail his nomination at the 1964 convention.” So Will asserts the presumed demise of the “establishment” occurred with the rejection of Rockefeller Republicanism in 1964. What an incredible statement, either very duplicitous or extremely naïve. As they have done with dissembling the tainted legacy of Jeb Bush, other columnists are also seriously distorting the historical record in their attacks on Trump, such as this pair of worthies comparing him to Wendell Willkie, the 1940 GOP presidential nominee, as an anti-establishment outsider. Willkie was the quintessential establishment insider chosen by the House of Morgan and the reigning Republican elite.
The establishment, both in its overt and covert Deep State manifestations, are pulling out all the stops in their efforts to derail and destroy Trump. Stay tuned for more updates.
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