October 28, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
The Deep State Bears
its Teeth Openly
Calls for Military
Action against President Trump
Friends,
Back on October 25 I offered an installment in the MY CORNER series
titled, “The Deep State Out in the Open – Calls for a Military Coup against
Trump.” That column has since been picked up by LewRockwell.com (October 26), and so I offer it again, slightly
edited, today as LewRockwell published it:
The Deep State Out in the Open Calls for a Military Coup
against Trump
This past
Christmas at a social gathering of some former high school classmates I had a
brief conversation with an old friend, a liberal—I still have one liberal
friend, but he’s about the only one left. Aware of my positions on
issues, and, yes, having actually read a few of the columns and essays I’ve
written over the years, my friend—let’s call him Dave—enjoys needling me as a
“conspiracy theorist.” And at that event he was at it again.
I don’t mind his banter, and, in a jocular fashion, I hand it
right back at him.
This past Christmas Dave was all exercised about some of my
pieces on “the Deep State,” and insisted that such discussion was nothing more
than “right-wing talking points,” “conspiratorial exaggerations about
legitimate government,” and, basically, much ado about nothing. The Deep State
he explained, did not really exist—rather, I was “making it all up,” and that
my criticism was actually misdirected at noble professionals who had dedicated
their lives and careers to what he termed “the betterment of all Americans.”
How dare I attack those hard-working men and women who actually
“made this country work!” [I am quoting his words, as I distinctly remember
them.]
I don’t
think my conversation that isolated in today’s America. But I also believe that
the more zealous and frenzied the opposition to President Trump becomes, the
more the reality of the Deep State has also become. As I have written
previously, the election of the “great disruptor” has forced the administrative
and managerial elites, fearful of losing their power and influence,
increasingly out of the closet into the open. Indeed, Donald Trump, with all
his bluster and unorthodox (according to Washington DC) manner of doing and
saying things, has torn the mask off, at least partially, of the permanent, largely
faceless bureaucratic class that has for so long dominated this country…and our
lives.
But until recently, a full admission of this from the agents of
the Deep State was unthinkable. The narrative was exactly that of my friend
Dave: those upright and dedicated bureaucrats and experts, in government and in
think tanks, were simply doing their job as professionals…but now that uncouth
and ignorant “bull-in-a-china-shop” Donald Trump had attacked them, and he was
thus “endangering our democracy” because of it.
Speaking,
as it were, for most of the major media, Glenn Carle, a former CIA
“clandestine services officer and an expert on national security,” called the
very idea of a Deep State a “dark conspiracy.” Joined by other members of our
intelligence agencies, he declared in May 2017:
The president has cast doubt on proven truths, undermined the
laws, undermined the judiciary, the free press, the intelligence community…He’s
undermined the very values upon which this society was built. So, what do you
do if you’re an intelligence official? …This dilemma…has been widely discussed
among those in the intelligence community, who have been forced to assess which
is the greater threat: Trump’s “authoritarian tendencies” which threaten “the
fabric of the nation,” or the clear national-security risks posed by a
sustained stream of classified information being made public….”When leaks come
from the intelligence community, it’s not to undermine the president or to
protect the deep state. It’s to protect democracy — it stems from a sense of
profound patriotism,” Carle said. “The deep state does not exist in fact but it
exists in the minds of Trump supporters…”
Talk about “projection”! Protecting democracy—by
undermining it?…when for decades this country (as most of the nations in
Europe) has been virtually ruled and governed by an unelected, untouchable
caste of managers whose vision increasingly centers on a universalist globalism
in which the citizens of the American republic will have become mere cogs: do
your work, pay taxes, but shut up and don’t ask questions about “things that
don’t concern you,” like running this country.
But now
that symbol and beacon of the American Establishment, The New York Times,
has come full circle: yes, the Deep State DOES indeed exist, it asserts, but
that is actually a “good thing,” good for you and good for the country. Perhaps
the insistent talk by the president and increasingly by some conservatives
forced the Times out from the shadows?
Here was
the headline of the Times editorial on October 20, 2019: “They Are Not the Resistance. They Are Not a Cabal. They Are Public
Servants.”
Ironically,
this admission/defense by “the Grey Lady” comes just a few days after a major
Leftist columnist and contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Matt
Taibbi, blew the whistle on his fellow bedfellows. In a major essay—curiously
not heralded on Fox and ignored by such media as CNN and MSNBC—Taibbi, no
friend at all to President Trump or his policies, suggested that his friends on
the frenetic Left “might soon wish they just waited to vote their way out of
the Trump era,” and that, indeed, we ARE living through an attempted “coup”
against the president and his agenda, that we are watching an hysterical effort
to negate and undo the results of the 2016 election by any means.
Taibbi wishes to see the president gone, but he also sees that
what is happening before us in Congress, in the press, and in academia,
is worse, far more damaging and dangerous to the survival of the American
republic than the perceived infractions or lese-majeste’ of Donald Trump. The
consequences of what the Left, the Democrats, and Never Trumpers are attempting
and inciting are, in fact, driving a poisonous and violent stake into what is
left of the republic.
I pass on
a slightly-edited copy of Taibbi essay. Notice near the beginning as he writes
about our divided country, he intimates that “we are speeding toward a
situation when someone in one of these camps refuses to obey a major decree,
arrest order, or court decision, at which point Americans will get to
experience the joys of their political futures being decided by phone calls to
generals and police chiefs.”
That
incredibly chilling prediction is undergirded by an OpEd, again in The New York Times,
by retired Admiral and Clinton loyalist, William McRaven [“Our Republic is Under Attack from the President,”
October 18], in which he argues
forcefully “that senior military leaders have lost confidence in the
president and feel he is a threat to the nation,” and that “action” must be
taken, “the sooner the better.” In other words…a military coup.
[And in continuation, please continue at: https://boydcatheyreviewofbooks.blogspot.com/2019/10/october-26-2019-my-corner-by-boydcathey.html]
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