This is a guest column by Conlan Salgado from The Prickly Pear.
As I’ve mentioned previously, the Democrats and the Administrative State have looked at democracy and found it wanting; in fact, with the meteoric resurgence of Donald Trump, they have diagnosed it as a complete failure.
A normal person might consider the symptoms of a failing democracy to be unfairly influenced or outright rigged elections (Hunter Biden laptop, ahem ahem); or perhaps, the politicized prosecution of a popular political opponent by four partisan lawyers and a partisan DOJ (somebody jog my fat, sluggish memory for me). To the fourth branch of government and the Ass on which its been riding around the country, the definition of a failing democracy is simple: the election and imminent re-election of Donald Trump. This is, in part, why the Democrats in collusion with the Deep State, immediately after Trump’s historic 2016 win, launched a three year performative op using the resources of the Federal Government and a special prosecutor to convince the American Public that democracy had literally failed: Trump had been dishonestly elected through the social media activity of Putin bots (mwahahahaha).
Democracy has certainly been ill before, according to the Democrats: for example, during the administrations of every Republican president. But democracy has never been terminally ill. George Bush, for example, had some populist tendencies, but he understood that he had an obligation to the Deep State to start foreign wars and not to win them. Most Republican presidents (with the exception of Reagan) have also understood that they must increase the regulatory power of the Administrative State, that any attempt to wage systemic de-regulation qualifies as a fundamental attack on “democracy”.
After the presidency of Obama, certain political norms had been established by the Deep State which future presidents, both Republican and Democrat, were expected to abide by: managed decline, the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, the elevation of Iran and the denigration—as much as possible within the confines of an alliance—of Israel, and the probable permanent military involvement in the Middle East of the American Armed Forces, among other things. Trump, big, dumb orangutang that he was, did not understand any of this: he brought back manufacturing jobs—according to Forbes, 10x as many in Trump’s first 21 months on the job as Obama’s last 21 months; he cut business taxes, leading to “the repatriation of some $300 billion in the first quarter of 2018 out of what the Federal Reserve estimates is $1 trillion in multinational profits held abroad”; he accomplished the Nobel-worthy Abraham Accords and reduced Iran’s cash reserves to nothingness; he withdrew American troops from Syria, and even despite treasonable behavior from his own generals, he managed to withdraw without making it an international scandal the likes of which we haven’t seen since Vietnam.
He built over 500 miles of Border Wall; he increased funding for the Pentagon, including for research and development and “He also funded the first major modernization of the nuclear command-and-control system since the Cold War ended”; he was the first president since Reagan not to start a foreign war. The latter fact left Joe Biden with the extremely unfair task of having to start two foreign wars all on his own. In short, in the eyes of the Deep State and the Dems, Trump was not a soaring success: he was an actual traitor.
He once again gave the American people a taste for prosperity and strength—both foreign and domestic. He renovated the idea of taking pride in one’s national community. Trump combined policy success with the strengthening of the American spirit, both of which Obama had spent eight hard years working to dismantle. Trump also brought out the worst in people (meaning permanent bureaucracy): that is, he drew out the virulent anti-democratic tendencies bureaucrats had always harbored but never explicitly advocated.
Now, ideas are best argued for or against in the way that they are embodied, or acted out. One reason it is correct to identify the administrative state as an existential threat to American democracy is because American democracy is embodied in three branches of government: legislative, executive, judicial. And two of them are directly empowered through elections. These branches are separate (let’s pretend, for the sake of this paragraph, that we are living in pre-May 30th America). A government so constructed embodies a certain idea of sovereignty—namely that sovereignty resides in the people. It also embodies a certain idea of power, which, if legitimate, is derived from the people’s sovereignty—namely, that power tends to corrupt and tempt those who hold it to abandon their duty of using it for the good of all (“all”being circumscribed by the category of citizenship).
The administrative state embodies an antithetical idea of sovereignty and power; it centralizes and unifies the three branches of government into one monolith. It embodies the idea that sovereignty is derived not from the consent of the governed but from the divine right of expertise—namely, that power is the legitimate right of those who possess specialized knowledge in the mechanics of governance and economics. As a corollary, it embodies the notion that power is its own mandate for those who are intelligent and skilled enough to acquire it; power is the private property of those rich enough to buy or savvy enough to secure a share, and therefore may be directed to private ends such as personal enrichment. Quite apart from the nitty-gritty of modern administrative politics, the above reasons are all indicative of why American democracy cannot co-exist alongside the Deep State. Indeed, they have not co-existed peacefully, and as of May 30th, the former was extinguished.
In other words, the democratic apparatus was re-formed: the federal government colluded with partisan state prosecutors both in terms of intent (Bragg and Jack Smith are trying to achieve the same end: Trump in jail) and almost certainly in terms of strategy. We know that the No. 3 lawyer at Biden’s DOJ quit his big-wig job in DC to take a diddly-squat job in a state prosecutor’s office—the same office that, surprise surprise, was bringing 34 felony counts against Trump. More importantly, the resources of “democratic governments” were used to seek authoritarian ends. After the events of May 30th, we can safely say that the federal government embodies the same ideas about power that the federal bureaucracy does, including lack of separation of powers, the direction of public power to private ends, etc.
In acknowledging that Donald Trump forced them to show their wicked agenda, the Deep State and their Donkey have dedicated themselves to completely re-structuring the American government into a new system which most closely resembles the Deep State itself. That is to say, they want to transform the current Federal government into a unified, centralized, one-party, regulatory apparatus dedicated to private interests where no separation of powers—not even nominal—exists. The likely re-election of Trump in November has forced the Deep State to abandon caution and accelerate to breakneck speed.
We witness this semi-calculated destruction most powerfully in the transfer of our institutions from democratic forces and functions to anti-civilizational forces and functions. Not only, most obviously, in the deliberate rigging of a courtroom and jury system, but in the violation of both explicit Constitutional rights and implicit judicial norms, and the use of one branch of government to ensure the unfair influencing of another. So too, as I have touched on previously, such phenomena as the campus protests; our education institutions are meant to safeguard and propagate knowledge, which is really the activity of naming things properly. Instead, our elite universities have capitulated to a movement which engages in the deliberate misidentification of things—for example, they call Israel a terror state and the Hamas-Palestinian coalition “freedom fighters”. To deliberately and wrongfully name things is to destabilize the enterprise of knowledge at its foundation.
Likewise, the media, which is meant to safeguard and spread the free and responsible movement of information and to hold those in power to account, have dedicated themselves to the irresponsible restriction and censorship of information and the primary task of protecting the interests of a permanent political overclass. Meanwhile, the DOJ, which is meant to safeguard and prosecute the law, has not simply committed individual acts of treason, but rather, is engaged in a regime of treason against the Constitution. The Federal Law Enforcement agencies have been used, in the past several years, to arrest peaceful pro-life journalists, raid the private residence of the current head of state’s primary opponent and critic, take journalists into custody, engage in widespread censorship enforcement of narratives not sponsored by the state, spy illegally on a presidential campaign, and collude in the suppression of relevant information regarding Joseph Biden’s son Hunter in order to influence the election in a partisan way.
Can you believe it? These goings-on are not even the worst of it: we now know, through mounting credible empirical evidence, that Trump causes an actual mental illness in federal bureaucrats and those of the elitist and Democrat persuasion. They have gone from addressing the elephant in the Oval Office to addressing the elephant in their minds. Indeed, they less address it than continually insult it. It often spends its nights in the dark, unfriendly closet and becomes the antagonist of nearly every story they tell about themselves. It chases them down streets in broad daylight and blares over them at the dinner table. It is not uncommon to see one arguing with an invisible version of it on street corners and on public television (you see the same sort of people in both places). It has even, they say, tried to kidnap their children and their children’s futures. Worse still, it breeds at an unstoppable rate, and continues to grow in strength and number.
Ah well, such is humor in an age when nothing is funny. It’s important to laugh, though, so you don’t start murdering people. It’s also important to remember that, much like the border, Joe has lost control of his bladder. Some people will accuse me of being petty in bringing this up, to which I and Joe Biden’s fanny respond: poop to you. Indeed, I encourage—in the ever-appropriate and slightly appropriated words of the immortal Shakespeare: “But, masters, remember, that Joe Biden and his Party are an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that they are an ass.”
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Author: Conlan Salgado
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