A December 2019 article by J.E. Dyer called for a commission to look into what the 2016 election had wrought. We were headed into 2020 when the nation was gearing up for the Trump impeachment trial over a phone call between Trump and the Ukraine President. The Mueller investigation had failed to conjure a charge of obstruction against Trump. So Intelligence Community whistleblower rules were altered to allow for hearsay testimony about the impeachable phone call. John Durham was in the early stages of his investigation into the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI's attack on the Trump presidency. Also at that moment, the public was unaware that a virus had been let loose from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and that the world was about to change in unimaginable ways. With the economy humming, illegal immigration largely under control, and unemployment at historic lows, Trump seemed in position to coast to re-election. Then the SHTF.
I don't think a commission would have been effective. I can't imagine such a commission escaping the control of "deep state" actors, and I suspect by now, two years down the road, Dyer feels the same. But her insights into the nature of the threat to America were on the money. And that, after all, is what it's about — the money. And, of course, the power to control it.
What is called the “deep state” consists of people who are so invested in the current scope and course of government that they cannot endure seeing it change – no matter how lawfully and constitutionally the change is brought about.
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It’s not because Trump might finally expose and lock up Hillary Clinton. It’s not because Trump might undo Obama’s legacy. Early on (i.e., back in 2017), those were popular theories. But even then, they missed the mark. No one who has been desperate to get rid of Trump cares that much about Hillary Clinton or Obama’s legacy.
What the anti-Trump “resistance” can’t accept is losing the power tool and source of sustenance that big government is today.
The question about that is what exactly the “deep state” of 2016 had in mind, when it surveyed what it would lose if Trump became president.
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But it highlights a very important aspect of the problem, which is that the anti-Trump campaign is about fighting off the threat Trump voters pose to a preexisting effort – by the groups that form the “deep state” – to transform the structure of governance and power on a transnational scale.
My own view is that it’s this threat from Trump and his voting base that has caused the anti-Trump forces to fight so hard. They’re not fighting just for situational relief (e.g., to keep Hillary out of prison), or for principle or symbolic affirmation.
They’re fighting to avoid losing ground they think they’ve already taken: territory gained in a campaign to change the political landscape for America and the world.
In 2016 Trump caught them by surprise. He was not supposed to win that election. In 2020 the anti-Trump "resistance" caught most of America by surprise. Time Magazine, unable to keep from gloating, published The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.
Time Magazine's article is an implicit admission of fraud. A secret band of "heroes" stole the 2020 election, then bragged how they "saved democracy." The release of the coronavirus gave the cabal a pretext for changing election laws in unconstitutional ways in key states. Public health was at stake, they said. Mail-in ballots were widely adopted, election hours changed, private money was poured into select Democrat counties to provide for ballot harvesting and selective ballot correction. And with all of that, the anti-Trump "resistance" still came up short on election night. Vote counting in key swing states was halted, observers were cleared from election centers, and counting resumed away from the prying eyes of election monitors. What happened was previously unimaginable, in-your-face corruption, and all of it yet to happen when Dyer wrote her article.
As Dyer said back in December 2019, the anti-Trump forces were not fighting for situational relief in 2016. Before election 2020, Democrats at least pretended to honor the will of the voters. But in 2020, the will of the voters was overturned. Since then, the unpopularity of Democrat power grabs has flipped the state of Virginia from Blue to Red. (Do you remember when the left, AKA communists were the Reds? In the decades since then, they've rebranded and adopted Blue.) How will Democrats overcome Virginian and American voters in next year's midterms when they are captive of Joe Biden's nearly historic unpopularity? They have a year to plan.
To what ends with the anti-Trump forces go if their Democrat puppets lose control of the U.S. House and Senate? When do the riots start? Will the "pandemic" continue for three more years? Or perhaps we'll have a new one. How long will it take for today's illegal immigrants to become tomorrow's registered voters? What is the optimum rate of illegal immigration to guarantee Democrat electoral victories?
Is there anything the cabal won't do to "save democracy?" But then, what happens if a generation of children, now 5 to 12 years old, begin to develop health problems from the experimental coronavirus shots that are being foisted upon them?
Read the whole of Dyer's article here.