Donald Trump has been indicted on four felony counts that accuse him of working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S.
You don’t even need a moral compass for that. Just a healthy amount of fear of the law. Trump likes to act like a mobster, but he’s not whacking anybody.
This is why Trumpies (and other fascists) dislike “the deep state”, by the way.
“The deep state” (in modern US usage) is anyone whose career in public service is not tied to a specific administration: professional bureaucrats, military officers, FBI agents, OSHA inspectors, postal workers, etc.
The opposite of “the deep state” is “the patronage system” — where you get a government job only by supporting the winning candidate.
When your town elects a new mayor, all the building inspectors and police officers and firefighters don’t have to stop their work and wait to find out whether the new mayor cares about smoke detectors and muggings. That’s because they’re part of “the deep state”, the part that doesn’t respond to shallow political changes.
But that means that people in “the deep state” are immune to certain sorts of short-term manipulation. The local town postmaster is a federal employee who expects to be in office long after the current president is gone. Today’s army lieutenant might one day be a general — but only by outlasting a few presidents.
Trumpies and other fascists dislike “the deep state” because its members expect to have loyalties to the state long after the current administration; and thus, they cannot devote themselves wholly to any current Führer.
The fact that Trump doesn’t even want to commit to pardoning the people who tried to overthrow the government for him should get them to make a brief pause and think things over.
You don’t even need a moral compass for that. Just a healthy amount of fear of the law. Trump likes to act like a mobster, but he’s not whacking anybody.
This is why Trumpies (and other fascists) dislike “the deep state”, by the way.
“The deep state” (in modern US usage) is anyone whose career in public service is not tied to a specific administration: professional bureaucrats, military officers, FBI agents, OSHA inspectors, postal workers, etc.
The opposite of “the deep state” is “the patronage system” — where you get a government job only by supporting the winning candidate.
When your town elects a new mayor, all the building inspectors and police officers and firefighters don’t have to stop their work and wait to find out whether the new mayor cares about smoke detectors and muggings. That’s because they’re part of “the deep state”, the part that doesn’t respond to shallow political changes.
But that means that people in “the deep state” are immune to certain sorts of short-term manipulation. The local town postmaster is a federal employee who expects to be in office long after the current president is gone. Today’s army lieutenant might one day be a general — but only by outlasting a few presidents.
Trumpies and other fascists dislike “the deep state” because its members expect to have loyalties to the state long after the current administration; and thus, they cannot devote themselves wholly to any current Führer.
Wow. Just wow. That is one of the best explanations of this I have seen. Thanks.
Great explanation, never thought about it that way.
The fact that Trump doesn’t even want to commit to pardoning the people who tried to overthrow the government for him should get them to make a brief pause and think things over.
That ship has sailed. Not only didn’t he pardon them while in office, but he can’t pardon anyone of anything now.
He will get the pardon power again once he’s re-elected (while sitting in prison probably). The US electorate is really that stupid.
Last I saw, he had a good percentage of a seven figure wake of dead people.