Can Trump Clean Out the Deep State Before It Destroys Him? by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, April 7, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at  The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

Our country, like many in Europe, is in the throes of a low-level running civil war between elites and the people. As I’ve explained here before, the “managerial” class James Burnham identified as the real winners of World War II is intent on seizing total control over politics, the economy, and culture from the old leaders of Western society — individual business owners, voting citizens, churches, and other civic groups. Managers don’t produce things or invent things the way Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and other old-fashioned businessmen have. Managers control things, and people, by using bureaucratic levers and legal boobytraps. If they can’t win elections, they cancel them (see Romania), arrest their opponents (see France), or steal them (see the U.S. in 2020).

Or they de facto nullify the results by crippling the people’s choice in office, as the Deep State did via fake investigations such as the Russia collusion hoax, which rendered Trump 1.0 a crippled giant. They’re trying to do it again right now through lawless judicial orders and manufactured scandals, such as the Signalgate affair. …

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