I’ve written about the Deep State Conspiracy before, but here’s a quick recap:
There are those who believe that a secret cabal of international “globalists” are controlling the US government (as well as most national governments and all international governmental agencies, i.e., the World Bank and the United Nations). In the US they do this by giving orders to entrenched government bureaucrats and career employees with the assistance of some willing elected officials. The conspiracy believers call these people the “Deep State.” As such, the country is not run by and for the benefit of the American people, but rather by these globalists who have as their aim various nefarious goals of world dominations and enslavement of the once free people of America.
To sell this conspiracy to each other and the likewise gullible, they cite actual governmental and international organizations, but they reframe what those agencies do to conform to their conspiracy beliefs. Further, they invent powers for these agencies that they do not possess, misrepresent actions they have taken, claim knowledge of information that is invisible to the rest of us, and assert motivations for these actions and inventions.
That all of these theories rely on first cause belief that such a conspiracy exists and that every action no matter how benign is part of the conspiracy calls for the rational mind to immediately dismiss them. And that each and every agency and department has a historically verified reason for its creation that responds to needs that existed when they were created adds to the reason why these conspiracies should be rejected as unsound paranoia.
Russia, under the governorship of Vladimir Putin, and under KGB influence during the Soviet years, recognizes that fostering these conspiracies in the US is to their advantage. By doing so, they seek to sew division and distrust among the American people for their government and for its international involvement. The hoped for result is the US taking an isolationist posture, thereby weakening the international groups that rely on the might of the US to maintain global cooperation. The Soviet Union did, and Russia now, continues to foster these conspiracies while promoting itself as a helping hand in the fight against globalism. A broad view makes it easier to see that this long term goal is not to stop globalism, but to stop only the globalism that threatens Russian influence.
Putin has been trying to regain the reach that Russia had during the Soviet era. The chief and obvious threat to that expansion is the international organizations that offer support and protection to those countries who don’t wish to fall under Russian sway. Think NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a large block of countries, chiefly bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and strengthened by the membership of the United States, which maintains treaties of mutual defense with members. To attack one is to attack them all, and NATO is far too strong a force for Russia to attempt to fight. It is the treaties and cooperation between world governments that pose the most effective resistance to Russian aggression and expansion. For Russia to get its way, NATO needs to be weakened and the US needs to get out of Europe. An isolationist America is in the best interest of Russia. They have been spreading propaganda along those lines and support any American voices who agree wherever and whenever they can. Russia recognizes that offering platitudes to “the good old days” and endorsing separatist views will divide America. They encourage sexism and racism, nationalism and xenophobia, and of course the grand conspiracy of the International Banker and the One World Government to aid in sewing that division.
Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, most probably believes those conspiracies. It is almost certain that many of his advisors past and present believe them. From Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, and Trump’s affection for Breitbart News and InfoWars, to his resistance to rejecting the support of alt-right and white supremacists groups who he knows believe in these conspiracies, it seems more probable than not the he sees them as real. It may be, and I think probable, that Trump walks around the White House convinced that within the US Government there exists a clandestine power seeking to foster the globalist agenda. He sees himself as the great hero, placing himself in the midst of the jungle where he will tear it down and save America from enslavement. He will make America like he thinks it used to be. He will MAGA. That he is flatly ignorant of our history and accepts the revised conspiratorial version is apparent.
I was watching on YouTube a clip from a news program where former CIA director John Brennan expressed dismay at how Trump refuses to listen to the intelligence experts and instead follow his own instincts. If I had Mr. Brennan’s number I could call him and give him this thought: Trump thinks the Intelligence Community is part of the deep state. He is trusting that other piece of the conspiracy theory, the part where Russia is our friend helping us fight off the globalists. Yes, he believes Putin rather than American intelligence agents. This seems too wild to believe until you consider it from the perspective that he is onboard the conspiracy train. It seems evident to me that in Trump’s mind he is resisting a full out assault on him by the globalists. He may consider any action fair game. Whether that is an executive coup or a call for uprising and even civil war, there may be no line that Trump will not cross. The idea that he could be disabused of the absurdity of this conspiracy is not realistic. It would require him to admit he was wrong. He is a narcissistic, insecure, paranoid sociopath and is incapable of even recognizing his own fault, much less admitting to it.
Currently the House of Representatives is conducting an impeachment inquiry. Should they find sufficient evidence to support they will vote to Impeach him. This would send the process to the Senate where a trial would be held. As long as Trump holds that the Senate would not convict him, and as of right now there is little chance they would, he may restrain himself from his worst impulses. But should that change, we need to look out. I believe, based on the view that I’ve written here, the Trump would rather tear down the entire US government than give in to the deep state.