Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were maverick outsiders unacceptable to the ruling elite. In his new book, States of Emergency, Kees Van Der Pijl explains how the establishment got rid of both. The ruling elite’s effort to remove Trump with Russiagate and impeachment failed. Had the plan to steal the election also failed, everything was ready for Trump to be removed by the military. Sanders was twice undermined by the elite, with the Democrat nomination going first to Hillary Clinton and then to Joe Biden, two reliable puppets of the establishment.
In chapter 3, “Restructuring the Ruling Class in the IT Revolution,” Van Der Pijl explains in the section, “The Coup Against Trump,” that Federal Continuity Directive 1 was issued a few days prior to Trump’s inauguration and served as a basis for a military coup to remove Trump from office. The directive provided the military the authority to take over the government “in the event that a US administration would fail to ‘demonstrate leadership that is visible to the nation and the world and preserve the confidence of the American people.’” The elite’s propaganda organs then started on Trump. First there was Russiagate. Then Impeachgate.
As the second term election approached, letters from retired generals were printed saying that if Trump contested the election he had to be removed by the military. Trump’s Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, ignored Trump’s order to use the Insurrection Act to put down the widespread destruction and looting that comprised the George Floyd protests. General James Mattis, Esper’s predecessor, “called Black Lives Matter a healthy and unifying force and pointed to the lack of mature leadership in the White House.” Generals denounced Trump for wanting to use the military against the people although the Continuity in Government procedure designed to be implemented by the military in the event of widespread disturbances in support of Trump does precisely that.
DefeatDisinfo.org run by retired General Stanley McChrystal went to work discrediting all of Trump’s statements about Covid. Critics accused Trump of spreading disinformation about Covid and questioned Trump’s authority as president. Social, print, and TV media denied President Trump and his supporters forums. The discredited president was an easy target for a coup, which was a certainty had the theft of the election not succeeded. The ruling elite used the orchestrated “Trump insurrection” to stop the January 6 examination by Congress of the evidence of election theft, and has prosecuted hundreds of Trump supporters as insurrectionists and domestic terrorists. You can bet your life that all future presidential candidates got the message.
Van Der Pijl sees the orchestrated “Trump insurrection” as essentially a color revolution that is “a further step toward the conversion of the US into an authoritarian state, which in the aftermath of 9/11 had already taken a huge step forward with the Patriot Act.”
Another big step was taken with the “Covid pandemic.” In chapter 4 Van Der Pijl describes “the virus scenario as the basis for a seizure of power.”
People without understanding are sitting ducks for tyranny. Van Der Pijl gives you information. If enough Americans can pass from insouciance to understanding, our freedom can survive.
Readers will be surprised to find a leftwinger giving Trump a fair shake. Van Der Pijl is one of the well educated and thoughtful old European left. He understands that this is not a left-right issue. It is no longer the capitalists against the workers. It is the elite against the people, and he stands with the people.
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This article seems a bit incongruent to all the Trump haters here, saying he was part of the deep state. I understand your dislike for him. However it’s all invectives and unproven allegations, no substance. “But but but David look at all the deep staters he appointed.” Who was he supposed to appoint as head of the FBLie, a guy who owned a chocolate factory? He rightly supposed that the people he appointed would work for his administration. After all, in all of history, when has that ever not been the case for a sitting president? Trump may not have cleaned out the “sewer” (that’s a better description than swamp) but what I am greatful for is, he put a face and a body on these sewer rats. Now they are in the light and they’re acting like it. I see things very differently now and for that I am quite greatful to Trump.
He rightly supposed that the people he appointed would work for his administration. After all, in all of history, when has that ever not been the case for a sitting president?
Dealey Plaza ring any bells?
I wish I could fully grasp the cult of personality that surrounds Trump, but my mind doesn’t work that way. I only see things through a narrow bandwidth; does it work or does it fail? Efficacious or useless?
Trump was a failure in every area except one- he drove the wackos insane. That’s not a movement even if it is entertaining. In fact it drove them to even greater acts of bellicose madness that we have been living through ever since he went back to the golf course full time. He left his base in a far worse position after his term expired than before it began.
I don’t hate Trump, I don’t care about him. He was always a poor choice because he’d proven that his word was no good to a series of families he broke up, contractors he screwed over, industries he tanked. His ability to always come up fat and happy no matter what kind of collateral damage he inflicted to those around him was all anyone needed to know about his prospects, the problem was that an organic, honest politician simply cannot exist in thoroughly corrupted age.
We get what we get.
Hear hear.
Used to agree with you on this, now Trump is a little more nuanced to me. Vox Day pointed out Trump’s value while in office, that was then, now Trump’s time has past.
Well said, Farmer.
He did two wonderful things for America:
He truly put a YUUUGE dent in the criminal alien invasion,
and he opened millions of eyes who didn’t see how truly
venal and deeply corrupt our traitorous government is.
Not many past presidents can say they did that much good for the nation.
For that I’ll always be grateful, no matter is many other failures.
david, you have a point in that there weren’t 1,000 Pat Buchanans waiting around in DC waiting to be hired. Still, Trump hired John Bolton, for fuck’s sake. “Keep your enemies closer” is stupid. Your enemies are your enemies. There must be a few Navarros and Stephen Millers around somewhere that he could have trusted. He should have approached sensitive communications the way Osama bin Laden did in Afghanistan: hand-carried, hand-written notes, destroyed after being read. That was obvious by mid-2016.
Bolton was monstrously bad pick even for a DC outsider.
The worst of the worst lifelong warmongering neocon
with an untrammeled record of being such.
Why do people think Trump has not gathered with a few trusted people like Bannon etc. and offered a coherent explanation of how all this worked? One reason perhaps is that he is a narcissist and makes everything about him. People are ready to listen to the truth now. They are understanding that the Deep State Establishment including the MIC is fraudulent. Perhaps he could arrange an entire Tucker Carlson show for this purpose? Or even better. Joe Rogan? I got it. Make this Rogan’s first show on the Rumble platform! Maybe Bernie would join the discussion? Glenn Greenwald would surely come. Snowden Yes. Ron Paul yes. Dr. Malone yes. Military dissidents yes.
“How the Globalist Deep State runs the world and what the people of the world can do about it”.
Used to be comfortably numb, that wore off.
Now I wait for the rain to stop before plowing the soggy snow, get more traction that way.
Who would have thought the Canadian truckers would be the ones to kick off the rebellion against the elites?
A plea to Pauls nurse. Please do a better job of watching him when you take him out on the patio for some sunlight. Quit chatting with Teddy R’s nurse and Napoleon’s orderly unless Paul is firmly strapped to his chair.
Kees Van Der Pijl. You’re kidding, Right? Just yesterday we were discussing the dearth of comedians who were actually funny. How did we ever overlook Pauls ghostwriter. This guy is really really funny.
Trump failed and Trump can’t handle the deep State, we need someone who can. The Primaries are in August; there is no time to waste telling it like it is and lighting the torches.
Hindsight is telling me the Trump theater was all about priming and corralling the huge half of the country most likely to resist the jab in trust of someone who would tell them to get it. In exchange for his gold laden homes and luxuries, numerous bailouts and a grand ego pedestal Trump fulfilled the acting job contract he signed decades ago in true honor among thieves style.
For people still hanging on to the belief in any authenticity whatsoever of anything politically spontaneous let alone anything unplanned/unexpected chosen to be a ‘report’ in the MSM, I ask you to take a second look at every Trump related thing as if everything about it was totally scripted, the mind impact the continuous script engendered on both sides, what agenda benefitted and what mind effect it left behind.
The political landscape in hindsight of my entire life only makes sense to me if I view all media/tv/cable as if it’s been a continuous timed, crafted, chosen or made up script in a world of continuous staged psyops, including everything/everyone portrayed as a ‘leak’ or ‘reveal’, ‘suddenly writing a letter’, ‘a law being proposed’, ‘this person said’….. on and on and on. I know how hard it is to finish off that red pill and realize that how big a fool you’ve been just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Populists, another definition of dupes…