Mike Whitney — Is This Trump's Samson Moment?

Mike  Whitney lays out the plot for a soft coup.

It is Donald Trump’s duty to defend the purpose of the President in addition to the correct of the American people to pick out their ain leaders through democratic elections. Both of those institutions are currently nether attack, in addition to at that spot is a existent danger that the republican scheme of government, which nosotros stimulate got enjoyed for over 200 years, is nigh to live on lost. So let’s cutting to the chase: The results of the 2016 election stimulate got never been accepted past times a small-scale grouping of oligarchs, politicos, news honchos in addition to career bureaucrats. The presidential election did non reach the effect they wanted, hence they agreed to utilization their ability to endeavor to modify the result.

With that terminate inward mind, this grouping of 5th columnists settled on a excogitation for disposing of Trump past times creating an Office of the Grand Inquisitor, an undemocratic, supra-legal means that operates independent of Congress, the White House or the American people. The Mueller Inquisition is an entity unto itself, a 4th branch of authorities created past times deep-state coup-member in addition to perennial Trump antagonist, Rod Rosenstein, the duplicitous insider whose maneuverings stimulate got helped pave the fashion for an indictment of the president and, eventually, regime change. Like Comey, Brennan, Clapper in addition to the rest, Rosenstein is neither committed to the president nor to the political scheme that guarantees illustration government. His loyalties prevarication amongst the largely invisible grouping of establishment powerbrokers who manipulate policy through their agents that are spread across the bureaucracy. As nosotros stimulate got seen inward the final year, this grouping has infiltrated the FBI, the CIA, the NSA in addition to the DOJ. They command nearly all the media in addition to utilization it to kind a narrative that best suits their broader political objectives. These are the omniscient puppetmasters who despise Trump in addition to are determined to withdraw him from office....

I don't handgrip out much hope. I recall that the American scheme of authorities has been exposed in addition to its soft ability pretty much finished. Nice work, folks.

Not that this is new. What is happening instantly is the culmination of a procedure that began at the terminate of WWII amongst the creation of the CIA (think Allen Dulles), the politicization of the FBI (think J. Edgar Hoover) in addition to the ascent of the military-industrial complex during the Cold War for starters.

There is a lot to a greater extent than to it, of course. In fact, it was the almost inevitable effect of the alternative of the founders to short-circuit republic in addition to flora a authorities based on oligarchy (establishment rule) out of fright of "the rabble" rising to power. This hence morphed into an establishment fright of "socialism," in addition to instantly "populism."

So inward a way, America never got off the Earth  as a existent republic anyway every bit authorities of, past times in addition to for the people (pace Lincoln).

To live on sure, at the founding America was a lot ameliorate than anything inward Europe or elsewhere inward the globe at the time. And since hence the feudal monarchies in addition to landed aristocracies are largely history.

However, instantly it is fourth dimension to displace on every bit digitization makes participatory republic viable technically. And that is what the Establishment is afraid of in addition to are trying to forbid inward social club to hold control. Trump happens to live on a slice inward that game.

The Unz Review
Is This Trump's "Samson Moment"?
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Rich Whitney, an attorney in addition to writer, sought to compare Freedom House’s rating systemof political rights for 2015 to the U.S. government’s provision of military machine assistance – military training,military aidand weapons sales– to unusual nations that same year. Whitney’s stated goal was to determine whether the U.S. authorities truly opposes dictatorships in addition to champions republic at a global level, every bit is oftentimes claimed. His independent analysis found that the U.S. has truly manifested the reverse of its stated intention, past times providing military machine assistance to 36 of the world’s 49 dictatorships. In other words, to a greater extent than than 73% of the world’s dictatorships currently have military machine assistance from the United States.

For his analysis, Whitney used a usually accepted Definition of dictatorship: “a scheme of authorities inward which i someone or a small-scale grouping possesses absolute reason power, thereby directing all national policies in addition to major acts — leaving the people powerless to alter those decisions or supplant those inward ability past times whatsoever method brusk of revolution or coup.” He chose Freedom House’s Freedom inward the World annual reports, citing it every bit the best rootage for a comprehensive listing of dictatorships in addition to “free” societies. Whitney, however, noted that the ostensibly independent arrangement has a “decidedly pro-US-ruling-class bias.”

Freedom House’s bias makes the results of Whitney’s analysis fifty-fifty to a greater extent than damning. The arrangement is funded bya combination of Western authorities in addition to nongovernmental-organization sources, including the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations. Thus, its categorization of nations every bit dictatorships or every bit gratuitous societies is largely analogous to how the U.S. State Department classifies such nations — pregnant that U.S. monetary back upwardly of such dictatorships is a knowing in addition to willful repudiation of republic advertisement abroad....

The Free Thought Project
‘Promoting Democracy’? US Gives Military Aid to More Than 70% of World’s Dictatorships