In his defensive, post-acquittal posture, President Donald Trump is more suspicious than ever of the so-called “deep state” that he claims is infecting his government.
What amazes me is how short-sighted it all is. The more lickspittles they hire, the less their agenda advances, since the sycophants have trouble accomplishing anything. Yes, occasionally it’s a Machiavellian plot to destroy government from the inside so they can ‘drown it in a bathtub’ or some similar libertarian nonsense. More often they’re just idiots, gravitating to fellow idiots
Ya know, TPM, if Ginni Thomas wasn’t the wife of a justice of the SCOTUS, she’d be one of “The People of Walmart,” or a MAGA woman in a midwestern diner being asked by the NYT how she feels about Trump.
The new originalist and strict constructionist position: the founding fathers and framers of the Constitution would not want people in government who seek to uphold the Constitution and rule of law.
The thing about paranoid conspiracies is that , when you question their validity, you are automatically placed into “bad” side of the conspiracy. You cannot combat them with facts, because the conspiracy lovers always have the alternate “facts”.
We are reaching deep shit crazy in a hurry. I know many will say we are already there - all I can say is buckle up. If the administration was a drunk uncle, we would have passed the point of intervention several years ago.