He had the nominal authority to wage war on the deep state yet he did nothing.
What is the deep state? Matt Walsh asks what is a woman when people claim transwomen are women. I ask what is the deep state when you claim Trump is waging war against the deep state. I define the deep state as the federal government.
There is a lot of overlap with the federal government, but that is not the definition. It is a lot more nebulous a definition than "woman" but if you want something very specific that covers 95% of what people mean when they say "deep state" try this:
The deep state is anyone in a position of power or influence who look at FBI agents destroying evidence that could aid Jan 6 defendants and say to themselves "I would have done the same thing."
"Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,” says Norm Eisen, a prominent lawyer and former Obama Administration official who recruited Republicans and Democrats to the board of the Voter Protection Program."
Without the spin: They changed election laws to allow for mass mail in voting which allows for mass ballot harvesting and fraud. They suppressed information on social media (including now well proven stories). They attacked and threatened the people whose job it was to detect election irregularities.
We now know that this campaign was aided, abetted, and probably organized by elements in the FBI and DOJ in general. They were organizing censorship of true information even under Trump. You foolishly assume that because Trump was in the oval office he controlled things, he did not order the Hunter Biden laptop story to be suppressed or organize the media into falsely reporting that it was Russian disinformation. YET that effort was organized from within the federal government.
This is what they mean when they say "our" democracy.
That's not democracy, and they can keep it in their degenerate shit stained failing cities where all the purportedly racist cops beat them mercilessly.
There is no normie vote.
If this was the case, then elections wouldn’t swing from republican president to democrat president.
I didn't say there was never a normie vote. The last anti-establishment president may have been JFK though...
American democracy is dead.
No it isn’t; sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
Yes it is. A republican winning isn't proof of anything if the republican in question supports the deep state. Some states have not had their elections fully subverted (see Florida).
Like if Walker wasn’t a hypocrite, Warnock wouldn’t have power. But he is, so the swing voters supported the democrat; just like the swing voters supported Kemp over Abrams.
You assume swing voters supported the democrat. You do not know and cannot know unless and until there is a secure and auditable election.
All that matters is ballot harvesting and the only chance for a republican to ever win another obviously critical election again is playing the game even dirtier than democrats.
Elections aren’t rigged.
You have no way to know that.
I didn’t vote for Biden, but he won fair in square.
You have no way to know that.
What do you think about getting rid of political parties and forcing politicians to run as independents?
Parties were never written into the constitution(s) and do not rely on any official government recognition to exist.
Winner takes all voting leads to two arbitrary political alliances fighting by the inexorable logic of game theory. The parties are merely the veneer of this truth and so is the "left right" terminology.
I define the swamp as whatever group of power holders are working together to maintain the military industrial complex by aligning academia, media, and government policy against anyone who would dare suggest that war isn't a good thing or that US foreign policy should involve fewer sales of weapons or foreign bases.
With the exception of the Ukraine war, ending war is a left wing thing.
A statement that could be forgiven if you just woke up from a 15 year hibernation. Bush was a deep state president. So was Obama. They said different things but they did the same thing. Trump broke the deep state's hold on the republican party, and that was dangerous to the deep state. They were safe as long as both party's candidates kept the crank turning. That is why they didn't need to undermine previous elections.
You define the swamp as power holders. What is the difference between power holders and elected government officials?
Not just power holders, power holders with certain goals. Not just elected power holders either, but unelected ones as well.
For example an FBI general counsel (James Baker) was hired as the top lawyer for Twitter. He then proceeded to coordinate with the FBI on censorship. It should go without saying that this is unmistakable violation of the bill of rights and any member of government who willingly participated is a domestic enemy of the constitution and guilty of sedition. (Also he was not the only DOJ spy/handler at twitter)
That FBI agent was not elected, but he was part of the swamp.
What are the Abraham accords?
Something you would know about if you included an honest news service in your information diet.
