Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson penned an ode to the ‘Deep State’ this morning. You see, we the Deplorables just don’t realize how bad everything that Trump does is. And his conduct in Helsinki was evidently the last straw.
Before this harebrained and reckless administration is history, the nation will have cause to celebrate the public servants derided by Trumpists as the supposed “deep state.”
The term itself is propaganda, intended to cast a sinister light upon men and women whom Trump and his minions find annoyingly knowledgeable and experienced. They are not participants in any kind of dark conspiracy. Rather, they are feared and loathed by the president and his wrecking crew of know-nothings because they have spent years — often decades — mastering the details of foreign and domestic policy.
God bless them. With a supine Congress unwilling to play the role it is assigned by the Constitution, the deep state stands between us and the abyss.
Holy smokes dude! That’s some serious pearl clutching you’ve got going on there! Do you need a Pause Pod?
And who are these public servants that Robinson believes must step up to the plate? Who are these absolutely wondrous public servants that Trump is so mean to? Want to bet that these folks are on Robinson’s list?
Loretta Lynch
Peter Stzrok
Lisa Page
Robert Mueller
Heck, I’d say Obama himself is likely on the list!
Since the ‘make the interpreter tell all!’ gambit didn’t work Robinson thinks the Deep Staters need to lend a hand.
Did they reach some sort of understanding about nuclear arms? About Syria? About Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea? If you worry, as I do, that Trump may have intentionally or unintentionally given away the store, you have to root for the deep state to find out what transpired in that room — and find ways to reverse, or at least mitigate, the damage.
Because you see, Robinson is 100% grade A positive that there is on-going collusion between Trump and Putin!
Therefore the ‘Deep State’ must DO SOMETHING!
Old and busted: Democracy dies in darkness.
New hotness: Less democracy, more darkness, please.https://t.co/c6avWvvTJH— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 20, 2018
So, the "Deep State" that up until now was "a right-wing conspiracy theory" just became "the only thing standing between us and the abyss."
— Victor Tango Kilo (@GenghisKhet) July 20, 2018
So now, it’s ok to call for the entrenched bureaucracy to hold the line against Trump.
Democrats in Congress are powerless; the Republican leadership, spineless. Experienced government officials know that their job is to serve the president. But what if the president does not serve the best interests of the nation?
In this emergency, the loyal and honorable deep state has a higher duty. It’s called patriotism.
Yes, he wrote that last bit with a straight face.
HARRUMPH indeed! As we’ve seen, many of the Deep Staters did anything and everything to keep their ‘phony baloney’ jobs. That includes lying to the American people multiple times, behaving like a sneering ill-mannered jackass while testifying to Congress (yes Peter Strzok I’m looking at you), obstructing multiple investigations and more.
I suffered, and I do mean SUFFERED under 8 yrs of @BarackObama. A president whose policies I could not stand. But under NO circumstances, NONE, could I imagine calling for or supporting elements of the gov't operating against his authority as POTUS. You people are dangerous.
— Keith James (@BlackMagic63) July 20, 2018
Keith is right. Robinson and others who are now ultimate fans of the ‘Deep State’ are a danger to themselves and to this Republic. What Robinson is advocating is the very opposite of patriotism and it is morally reprehensible and Constitutionally wrong.
You want more Trump? This is a prime example of how to get more Trump.
Ahh…the unelected Deep State and their RAT minions. The Deep State will always put its own interests ahead of the country and if it results in the country burning to the ground…then so be it.
There is a golden socialist utopia to build but remember it will be a hell on earth for those who aren’t apparatchiks of the global Soviet.
Eugene Robinson is and has long been a maximum-hysteric. He has nothing to contribute to any substantive discussion. His usual beat has been “racism:” “structural racism,” “Institutional racism,” “racism on toast with a side of fried rice,” and so forth. My theory is that the Post keeps him around to make the somewhat-less-hysterical hysterics who write op-ed for them look relatively sane.
I am constrained to gently point out that hoping the military refuses to obey orders in the event of gun confiscation is exactly this. In both cases, there is the hope that enough of the government agrees with a particular definition of what’s actually lawful to refuse its’ instructions from its’ nominally lawful superiors.
“Why doth treason never prosper? Because if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
Eugene: If I hadn’t shot you the ambulance wouldn’t have come. You should be thanking me.
What an embarrassment for WaPo and the profession of journalism. This is classic Napoleon straight out of Animal Farm. We didn’t elect Trump in response to a corrupt and unaccountable Deep State, oh no. The Deep State sprang up in response to Trump. LOL.
That must be why Deep State weaponized the IRS to shut down conservative organizations three years before the 2016 election.
Eugene Robinson must think WaPo readers are idiots.
Wow. Eugene Robinson speaks. Robinson would know neither patriotism or intelligence. I would love to see an IQ test from him or his unedited columns. Not only am I not a fan, I put him in a class by himself. That is not a positive statement.
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