From book Dragonslayers: Six Presidents and Their War with the Swamp. Larry Schweikart. 2022. Kindle online sample. Section 2.
By 1980, virtually all authority over the administrative state had been handed over to the courts, who essentially allowed the bureaucracy to write its own performance standards and its own definitions of legality.
COURTS GAVE THESE FEDERAL AGENCIES THE WIDEST OF LATITUDES, ENABLING THEM TO WIELD A POWER THE FOUNDERS NEVER INTENDED.
As Ronald Reagan quipped, “The closest thing to eternal life I have seen on the earth is a government agency.”
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Two and a half decades after Reagan abandoned his war with “big government,” Donald Trump ran on the promise of “draining the Swamp.”
His actual program was far less ambitious than many thought at the time.
He never promised to eliminate or even downscale the FBI, the CIA, or any government agency.
RATHER TRUMP PROMISED TO ATTACK THE LOBBYIST CULTURE FROM A NUMBER OF DIRECTIONS.
Left unsaid by Trump was the fact his energy program alone threatened to eliminate or severely weaken a number of energy-related lobbyists, who would have to return to old-fashioned competition—rather than begging the government for protection—to survive.
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But Trump quickly found out the more substantial changes he wanted to make in including bringing equality to the justice system, in putting America first in all policies, in tightening border controls, all ran afoul of some large, entrenched element of the Swamp, by then known as the Deep State.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE HAD GIVEN UP MERELY CARRYING OUT THE ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT AND INSTEAD HAD GONE INTO FULL “RESISTANCE” MODE to stop his every policy.
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The Deep State cabalistas remained as a Communist-like underground, torpedoing personnel choices, slow-walking clearances, refusing to obey direct White House commands, and, in the case of the Department of Justice, joining in the attempt to impeach Trump himself.
Trump also was opposed by “Big Tech,” in the form of outright election tampering by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.
Whereas Teddy Roosevelt fretted the Yellow Journalists would provoke mobs to assault corporations, the same “news” media, which by Trump’s time did not even pretend to be objective or fair, THE MEDIA NOW JOINED WITH BIG TECH AND THE DEEP STATE TO TRY TO TAKE DOWN A PRESIDENT, and they succeeded.
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Multiple scholarly analyses of the “news” coverage of the 2016 race showed at best Trump got 7 percent favorable coverage.
It was worse in 2020.
Is the Swamp now beyond all control?
It is evident while conservatives in the 1980s, 1990s, and the first decade of the twenty-first century agonized over the left’s domination of Hollywood, academia, and the media, CONSERVATIVES WERE COMPLETELY BLIND TO LEFTIST TAKEOVERS OF THE MILITARY, DEEP STATE INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS THE CIA AND FBI, AND THE SEIZURE OF AMERICA’S CORPORATIONS BY “WOKE” CEOs AND MARKETING DEPARTMENTS.
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Despite the fact Trump won over 74 million votes in 2020, the most ever for an incumbent president, HALF OF AMERICA’S ELECTORATE WAS ALREADY BEING DEMONIZED IN 2021 AS “WHITE RACISTS” AND “HATE GROUPS.”
For almost 200 years the American people have been at war with one group of elites or another, from those elites embracing slavery to current elites who promote big government leftism and protect the secrecy of the FBI and CIA.
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Even a popular president like Ronald Reagan found it impossible to even make a significant dent in the administrative state, which by the twenty-first century had united the law enforcement agencies, the military, and much of corporate America under its control along with media, entertainment, and tech giants.
THAT TRUMP GOT AS FAR AS HE DID AGAINST THIS COALITION WAS ITSELF A MIRACLE, BUT THE RESULT WAS THE ELITES WANTED HIM OUT AND GOT HIM OUT.
(end of section 2)
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(own comments)
Section 1:
“This parasitic network inside the U.S. government had by Reagan’s time grown so large and powerful it literally wrote its own laws.”
Simply, we need to return power to the states where it was originally intended to stay.
Competition better than monopoly.
How can other countries be attracted to the U.S. if they know they will be swallowed by a D.C. swamp?
Republicans are promoting having Convention of States and want to attack the D.C. swamp.
Democrats are opposing having a Convention of States and want to protect the D.C. swamp.
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Section 2:
“Conservatives were completely blind to leftist takeovers of the military, Deep State institutions such as the CIA and FBI, and the seizure of America’s corporations by ‘woke’ CEOs and marketing departments.”
Real Republican Schöpfers cannot expect to be elected much less succeed in D.C. until after tHAT New revolution not before. Need more living and fewer standing around.
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