Ace:
Yesterday, Gentry-Liberal-Who-Loves-Foreign-Wars Bill Kristol championed the unelected Deep State over the elected “Trump state:”
Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 14, 2017
Then “Constitutional Conservative” government hack Egg McMuffin defended the illegal leaking by the intelligence services in the name of “democracy” or whatever:
https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/831869821054754816
Then John Schindler, ex-NSA idiot and Master of OpSec now says “we” will go “nuclear” on the duly-elected president:
Former NSA employee John Schindler on @RealDonaldTrump https://t.co/EemWTKxNhR https://t.co/rh7ByfEZXP pic.twitter.com/pcXnVSdFTI
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 15, 2017
John Podhoretz had a rare moment of clarity today, in which he warned the Deep State of the fire they were playing with:
If the language surrounding the investigation remains florid and purple, if Democrats try to please their Trump-hating constituents by screaming impeachment and liberal media tries to garner audience by jumping openly and vociferously on the bandwagon, the Trumpians will respond in kind by stirring the pot through their media and their argumentation.The result might well be violence. Not rhetorical violence. Actual violence. Actual political violence. Actual conflicts between anti-Trumpers and Trumpers. At demonstrations. In the streets. Of our cities. Political violence of a sort we haven’t seen in 50 years, and maybe haven’t really seen in this country in the modern era. Those who believe Trump is a unique menace whose threat to our democratic way of life will be met with those who believe the elites are using illicit means to oust the legitimately elected president of the United States.
This is not a fantasy. This is one possible future. And every rational person who cares about the future of the country should be mindful of it, and should work to forestall it.
Damon Linker similarly thinks the Overclass What Knows Everything hasn’t apparently ever read a history book about what happens when undemocratic means are used to quash the popular will.
The whole episode is evidence of the precipitous and ongoing collapse of America’s democratic institutions — not a sign of their resiliency. Flynn’s ouster was a soft coup (or political assassination) engineered by anonymous intelligence community bureaucrats. The results might be salutary, but this isn’t the way a liberal democracy is supposed to function.Unelected intelligence analysts work for the president, not the other way around. Far too many Trump critics appear not to care that these intelligence agents leaked highly sensitive information to the press — mostly because Trump critics are pleased with the result….
[N]o matter what Flynn did, it is simply not the role of the deep state to target a man working in one of the political branches of the government by dishing to reporters about information it has gathered clandestinely…Those cheering the deep state torpedoing of Flynn are saying, in effect, that a police state is perfectly fine so long as it helps to bring down Trump…
Sitting back and letting shadowy, unaccountable agents of espionage do the job for us simply isn’t an acceptable alternative.
Down that path lies the end of democracy in America.
I’ve defined “populism” as “the insane, dangerous belief that the know-it-all overclass is actually pretty stupid and incompetent, and also very self-interested.”
I mean, that’s just crazy-talk, isn’t it?
These people move from triumph to triumph, never erring in their relentless race against impossible perfection.
But the way the Establishment, DC Claque, and Deep State see it, “populism” is a dangerous revolt of the people against Better People Who Know Better.
Moonbeam needs to be totaly removed as govenor of California and remove Newsom as well and go agter the govenor of Virginia for giving fellons the right to vote