Commentary

NOTE: This commentary is longer than usual, but I think you will find it very informative if you read it in its entirety. You need to know all about it.

Regular readers may recall my occasional foray into the topic of the Deep State.  Since it became a hot topic during the Obama era and got even hotter when Donald Trump announced his intention to run for president in 2015, I have written on the subject numerous times.

While catching a few remarks ABC’s George Stephanopoulos made about the Deep State during his recent appearance on “The View,” I noted that he wrote a piece for Vanity Fair magazine, the headline for which reads, “The Deep State Is Packed With Patriots.”  Patriots!  I smelled a coverup.

What is the Deep State?

Before I go into the activities of the Deep State, you should know that I view the Deep State as an entity, which explains why I capitalize it.  It is a shadowy network of staffers, primarily in the alphabet agencies – DNI, CIA and FBI – but they work in the Departments of State and other federal agencies where they have influence.

It has also been described as a clandestine network of members of the federal government working with high-level financial and industrial entities and leaders to exercise power alongside or with the elected U.S. government, or simply, a political conspiracy theory.

It has been said that the very use of the term conspiracy theory risks both unfairly mischaracterizing and trivializing the powerful hold the Deep State has upon the American political imagination today.

Some view its origins to the Obama presidency. During his January 2010 State of the Union Address, with members of the Supreme Court sitting before him, he openly scolded them for their decision on Citizens United, which overturned many previous restrictions on political campaign spending.  In a sense, he used his bully pulpit to tell his people, to get ready to fight back.

When Trump entered the picture, he made it known that he thought Obama supporters, entrenched in government, were leaking misinformation about him.

Back to Stephanopoulos

Lately, we have seen George Stephanopoulos get interviews with President Biden because Biden’s handlers know there will be no “gotcha” moment.  You may recall that George was Bill Clinton’s communications advisor during the 1992 campaign, later becoming the White House communications director.  He then served as Clinton’s policy and strategy advisor before leaving in 1996.

Stephanopoulos claims to have interviewed about 100 people, “they’re relatively young people who come from all over government. The CIA, DIA , the Defense Department, military, and some people like to call those people the deep state,” he said.

“Well, the big thing I learned doing this book is that the deep state is packed with patriots,” he said while plugging his book, “The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis.”

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that he’s out to quell Trump’s vow to end the Deep State, or The Swamp,” is he often refers to it.  Unelected bureaucrats attempting to thwart his agenda.

“People who go to work every single day on the frontlines of the most intense crises the country faces, and do it to serve their country and to serve the presidency, not the president,” he writes. “They’re there to serve the presidency and the institution.”

He makes no mention, however, that a poll by his own network on April 29, 2017 revealed that 50 percent of those polled believe the Deep State exists, referring to it as “a cadre of career employees inside government working together to secretly manipulate government policy and undermine elected leaders or political appointees.”

Resistance to Trump

It was in Trump’s first hundred days that resistance groups began to form.  Among outside organizations like the ACLU, the Brennan Cener for Justice, Center for American Progress, Center for Media and Democracy, Common Cause and many others.  But recall how resistance groups were being formed in the open, right inside our government with training sessions.

In May of 2017, Time magazine published “How Harvard Is Teaching Resistance,” written by a graduate student in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a co-founder of Resistance School.

In what it called a “rare step,” on September 5, 2018, the New York Times published an anonymous op-ed, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.”  It carried a subhead of “I work for the president, but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”  A rare step indeed.  Heretofore, the Times wouldn’t have considered such a thing, but they claimed it was “the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers.”

On October 28, 2020, Miles Taylor, who left his position as chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security, made public his authorship of the op-ed and then Time confirmed it.

Taylor is now hawking a book published last month, which I choose not to name, just as he refused to put his name on the Times op-ed in 2020.

In May of 2020, thousands of pages of declassified transcripts revealed that not a single FBI or intelligence official could offer a shred of evidence that Trump colluded with the Russian government.  One of the members of the Deep State cabal, James Clapper, Obama’s DNI, conceded behind closed doors that Trump was not working with the Russians, yet he was welcomed as a CNN analyst.

Clapper was but one of a number of names that have surfaced of other Deep State operatives, as was CIA chief John Brennan.  And surely you remember FBI agents Peter Strzok and his fellow agency girl fiend Lisa Page, who shared texts on how they intended to keep Trump out of the White House.

Did anyone at ABC News ask Stephanopoulos if he would consider them patriots? C’mon.

 What about now?

Stephanopoulos says “those bedrock tenants of democracy are being tested in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War” in this election year.

Yes, George, but the unconstitutional lawfare Trump is facing would never have been thought of in the 1860s.  We have a complicit Department of Justice, collaborating with Democrat judges and district attorney’s committing legal abuse and the media’s eagerness to see Trump found guilty.  Andrew Colangelo, once the number three person in the DOJ, is trying to help NY DA Alvin Bragg “get” Trump. The left routinely ignores rule-of-law.

Writing in the Daily Caller, Minnesota’s Republican Rep. Jason Lewis wrote, “The ‘Deep State’ is far deeper than anyone imagined.”

Writing in Scientific American, of all publications, Kathyn Olmstead and Simon Willmetts, believe the Deep State and modern conspiracy theories were born out of excessive state secrecy.

And in a New York Times video, Adam Westbrook and Lindsay Crouse, say, “it turns out the Deep State is actually kind of awesome.”  Awesome?  Really?

“As America closes in on a major election, mistrust is brewing around the mysterious government entity that’s now denounced in scary-sounding terms – ‘the deep state’ and ‘the swamp,’ they say. “What do those words even mean? Who exactly do they describe? (From the video transcript.)

They claim to have gone on a road trip to find out.  Like Stephanopoulos, the pair would have you believe that Deep Staters are patriots, “who go to work and do their jobs: saving us from Armageddon. We discovered that they are us.”

“We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us.  These are Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better.”

Kramerontheright finds it ironic that while there are those working undercover in government positions that enable them to play dirty, these “Patriots” say we are at risk of losing our democracy if Trump wins.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.