I think what Trumpers better start preparing themselves for is this...the Deep State is the GOPers who have been cutting deals with our enemies to help their pocketbook at the expense of their constituents and their country.
Unfortunately, they listen to the likes of Jones, Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Carlson and the like who push the opposite narrative.
I’ve been saying this for years. This is why I’ve said I believe we’re in the Era of Projection.
What I think is this: white christian suprematism is very real. Globalism, neoliberalism, prospect of extreme migrations due to globalization combined with consequences of global warming—all tugging at the anxieties of the one group who has held power and can’t imagine sharing or relinquishing power. Think of all the messages and efforts that link together. Further, it’s understandable—an understandable human reaction nested in fear of other, which evolution has essentially baked into our DNA.
The deep state is of course real. However intentional and organized it is history will eventually reveal. I think some of it is zeitgeist. Some of it is coordinated.
Power corrupts and is uniquely corruptible. America has held power for a nice stretch of time, and America ultimately is a white Christian suprematist nation with some mostly superficial, platitudinous facades of diversity and inclusion. Where the rubber hits the road, America has always been a white (male) Christian suprematist nation, and only recently has this been considered in jeopardy. Obviously Obama fanned the flames of this feeling of encroachment. And then a neoliberal
woman? Fvck that! Thus the overreactions: to brown immigrants, to muslims, to pretty much anything suggestive of any type of power cession. There is ratcheted-up rhetoric against pretty much all non-white, non-christian people. And then there is the rhetoric (projection) to position white Christian males as under attack, victims, to give license to their anti-all-others rhetoric.
Russia is, of course, palatable and even attractive to people given Russia is unapologetically white and Christian, not to mention a bastion of male machismo. The best way to stave off encroaching on white, male Christian hegemony is to join forces with a world power intent on maintaining said hegemony, and who will do so unapologetically.
(I can’t wait to hear the usual suspects defensively respond to this!)
