COMMENT POSTED TO A COLUMN BY DAVID STOCKMAN IN RUSSIA
INSIDER
Stockman: Why the Deep
State Is at War With Trump
"The Deep State
has turned its own crimes during and after the 2016 election into nothing less
than a coup d'etat against American democracy."
A rather silly and unperceptive piece, in line with a lot of
stuff you can find on Alt-right Internet sites.
I do not believe the Deep State is after Trump, not anymore
anyway.
There was some opposition early on, but it has dissolved
away.
The Democrats are very much against him, but what else would
we expect? Stunts and lies and cheating have long featured in American
politics, making them toxic, but that is not to be confused with the Deep
State’s work.
Trump has made every concession to the deep State he can
make, to the point of demonstrating himself a coward.
The Pentagon gets just whatever it wants.
The CIA gets just whatever it wants.
The Israel Lobby gets just whatever it wants.
The idea that Trump is now even pretending to "drain
the swamp" is actually laughable if you look at the facts.
What was originally deeply resented by many in his own party
and others was his hi-jacking a major party which had been pretty much adrift
and seemed without direction or purpose.
In America's anti-democratic party system, in either party, you
have to earn your "creds" over years of work and support and
successive offices. The whole mechanism is effectively a vetting system making
America safe from any sudden changes.
The two official parties are nothing but two branches of a
single Imperial Party. They do not like outsiders. They do not like anyone who
might "rock the boat."
But Trump's days of being seen as a potential threat are
over, long over. He's completely compliant with what the establishment wants.
The only thing different about him is his big mouth and his crudity, but those
threaten no one's position or power.
Today, Trump is as much a threat as one of those huge
cartoon character balloons they use each year at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade in New York. Full of hot air and nothing else.
But his loyal followers, the Alt-right crowd, just don't get
it. They pathetically cling to him and see him as a savior under attack by
Romans or a great general on a white horse doing daring deeds against the foe.
But it is all a bad joke, he is nothing of the kind. He's a
big hot-air balloon, a threat to no one’s power, simply a national
embarrassment in taste, manners, and judgment.
