"Well, you see, they needed a really strong America-first nationalist guy, Trump, so they could take him down and snuff out the flames of separate nations, once and for all. They also wanted to exacerbate the divide-and-conquer strategy for America -- causing the deepest conflicts to come to the surface and rip America apart at the seams." --
I'm not rejecting those arguments completely; but I am saying elite controllers would be taking quite a gamble with that strategy, because the Trump effect vis-a-vis nationalism is formidable, and elite Globalists aren't in the habit of encouraging all the points that defeat their own stance. They aren't in the habit of pushing a man into the spotlight (and the Oval Office) who talks those points endlessly and puts dangerous ideas into millions of minds. Whether fake or real, Trump is that man, he talks that talk, and he does it relentlessly. There was no way to stage the 2016 election without spawning all this anti-Globalist rhetoric?
Trump has also attacked the intelligence establishment and the FBI. Not just once, but many times. Yes, you could say his appointments to headline jobs in those agencies belie his words -- but why allow such a president to exist in the first place? Trump is actually mirroring a few of the major charges the political Left has leveled at the intel establishment for decades. And people out in the real world are agreeing with his harsh criticisms. When Trump first started this drumbeat, Senator Chuck Schumer said it was big mistake, because the intelligence community has six ways of getting back at you. Schumer didn't say Trump was wrong. He just said Trump was crazy.
And that may be a clue. Trump just doesn't care. He grew up hustling in the real estate field. He rubbed elbows with the Mob. He made deals however they could be made, with whoever showed up with money. He survived, went broke, survived again. He developed a giant ego. He promoted himself ceaselessly, once he'd achieved a bit of fame. In his world, bureaucrats are the lowest form of human life. He's a hard-charging a**hole, and after a few drinks, he might gleefully admit it.
This is not a character the Deep State wants around, and especially not in the White House. "I'm the president and you just handed me this CIA assessment? It reads like sheer bullshit. Why don't you fill me in on the real facts, if you know what they are, or is your problem stemming from the fact you're ignorant?"
Even on that level, the intel community doesn't want Trump around. Face it, Washington is full of bullshitters on every conceivable platform. These people have never done a thing to justify their existence, much less their jobs. They skate all day, every day, and they expect to skate all the way into their pensions. Now along comes this bull in the china shop. No one really knows when he's telling the truth and when he's lying, but he does seem to have a nose for spotting fakers -- maybe because he's faked it for so long himself. And done it well. Done it better than most. Certainly done it better than jive analysts at the CIA, who really have faint knowledge about what's going on in hotspots across the globe, but try to talk a good game.
Don't kid a kidder.
On this level alone, Trump has not endeared himself to denizens of the Deep State.
Continuing with the theme of "Trump just doesn't care," it's possible he's willing to be drummed out of office. He's daring the press and his other enemies to try it, and his position is: "If you can carry it off, go ahead. See what trouble and disaster you bring down on your own heads, if you win." He's willing to fly away from the White House, as Nixon did, and go back to Trump Tower in New York and pick up from where he left off. That's a strong position. He's always been a go-for-broke character, and if this president thing doesn't work out, there are other worlds to conquer. Such a stance would make his enemies nervous. He's quite able to call their bluff.
Meanwhile, as long as he's in office, he's a proponent of President Calvin Coolidge's famous "the business of America is business." This is, at once, a gift to, and a theft from, Globalists. It's a gift, because Trump intends to give mega-corporations, which are the action arms of Globalism, free reign to dominate the marketplace, horribly pollute to their hearts' content, cooperate with government allies in stepping up surveillance of the citizenry, and pay less taxes, as long as some of these companies, or a few of them, bring jobs back to America.
It's a theft, because Trump isn't structuring these corporations as part of the infamous Globalist trade treaties, like the TPP. (Unless he goes back on that promise, too.) He's prone to making separate trade deals with separate nations. At least on the surface, he appears to want to prove that this tactic can succeed. And it can build up the US economy. Even, worst case, if he's lying about opposing trade treaties, once again he's planted an idea in many minds: you don't need Globalist trade deals to make trade work. This is not a Deep State idea. Far from it. It's corrosive to the Deep State.
Look at how many counties and states turned red in the 2016 election. Territorially, it was overwhelming. What were all those people on all that land thinking? It was a mixed bag. On the one hand (without mentioning it), they wanted the government benefits they were accruing, as a matter of course, to remain in place. At the same time, they wanted freedom, the right to be left alone, the right to reject political correctness, the right to celebrate America as an independent and sovereign nation, the right to feel proud of their country, the right to be able to work and find a job, the right to own guns, the right to shut down open borders, the right to uphold the traditional family, the right to reject major media as a bunch of liars and crooks (and ditto for the Washington swamp).
The Globalists deviously put a man in the White House who was stimulating that whole range of sentiment and conviction? Really?
Then we come to the Clintons. Major league bullshitters in their own right -- and on a level Trump could hardly aspire to. The Deep State, with some reservations, had accepted the idea that one of their own, Hillary Clinton, with all her personal and family and political baggage, was going to be the next president of the United States. She and Bill seemed to be made of Teflon, or some similar substance that swallowed scandals whole and made them disappear. The press had played a central role there. (The press that Trump was violently attacking.) Forget the Clinton Foundation. Forget Hillary's decades-long shameful defense of her husband's sexual predations. Forget Mena and the cocaine trafficking and Bill's arrangements with the CIA. Right out in the open, Hillary, with her sidekick, Barack Obama, had destroyed a whole country. Libya. They had reduced an entire nation to bloody chaos. If she could get away with that, she could get away with anything. So, for the Deep State, she still held promise. She could work a hustle beyond any hustle Trump could dream of. Good. She would do a good Globalist job as the next American president. The press would keep things reasonably quiet. She and Bill would continue their deep and long relationship with the CIA and all the CIA stands for.
But there was one major issue. Apparently, once again, the all-knowing and all-seeing and all-controlling controllers of the Deep State, who manage society flawlessly, as Hegelians par excellence, had screwed up royally. They hadn't talked with Hillary's doctors. These gods, who can execute the synthesis of opposites on a grand scale, who know the future decades in advance, had failed to notice Hillary was sick. Quite sick. Sick enough so that if she won the election, she might have to hide from the public for the better part of her term, and even that (absurd) tactic might not work.
So perhaps midway through the 2016 election campaign, the Globalist gods of the Deep State decided to back off and let Trump win. Not because they favored him, not because they knew they could manage his every move, and not because they had turned him into one of their own, but because they had messed up and had to scramble and make the best of an unpleasant situation. Because on a gross physical level, Hillary was toast.
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