Obama, Trump and Buchanan’s “Deep State”
I love to read Pat Buchanan. Sometimes it reminds me of the same “leader worship” as the previous Obama followers. Of course, it’s very different this time. Now Trumpeteers have a “true outsider” inside the “deep state” working for us, “the working-class casualties.” Trump is now being undermined and threatened by the Washington cabal that meets on Monday nights. The anti-Obama cabal met on Tuesday nights and supposedly they were a bunch of racists white conservatives whose rhetoric was that Obama was a Socialist out to destroy the country.
Obama represented an outsider. He was “Hope and Change” personified. It’s interesting that many of those who voted for Obama the first time also voted for Trump this time. He was a “virgin,” a “newbie” inside the “deep state.” America’s “working-class casualties” surprisingly did not exist then and neither did the cabal that was undermining our previous President Obama, as per Buchanan. Does the “deep state” seem to only exists when your leader is in office? I know Pat would say this current “deep state” cabal represents the interests of “corporatists* (that) burn incense at the shrine of the global economy”; and in that definition of the “deep state” he is 100% correct. Obama, Hillary, the Republican establishment and the Democratic establishment all represent globalization and our economic mythology. Not Bernie; he was “America First” for the Left. Our current economic ideology of globalization is held by many with powerful interests and what Buchanan calls the “deep state”. Both Buchanan and Trump think globalization and our current laissez-faire economics where corporations run our country needs to be changed. The Left anti-globalization crowd has been around for awhile and both the press and Buchanan surprisingly enough have given them little ideological credence. Maybe he couldn’t accept the idea that American Socialists also stood beside him in questioning economic policies that were not designed for the “working-class.” For some reason when the anti-globalization ideology banner is taken up by an egotistical white businessman with a Twitter account, it is now seen as a “change he can believe in.” Yet the only difference I notice from Trump’s statements is that trade agreements between three or more countries are “bad” whereas those between two are “good”. His future trade deals and his corporatist rhetoric of governing are not real to me until there are laws written. Will Trump’s upcoming corporate tax structures provide enough incentive for our current international companies to wave Nationalist flags? Can Nationalism be bought?
Pat: Trump “read the nation and the world better than his rivals.” Pat, you mean Americans were tired of a government that only seemed to benefit itself, a Congress making themselves into millionaires? Retaining their lavish positions by serving special interests groups. I guess the newest Trump recruits are an “OK” millionaire class. They didn’t make their millions from taxpayers directly but by buying willing Congressmen. Many Democrats in my opinion, were voting against Trump and not for Hillary. Also, being with “Her” just meant being with the establishment, the status-quo, with a lame tag line. I also believe we got the candidates we deserved.
Pat: “Trump saw that his countrymen wanted to be rid of the endless wars.” You are 100% correct Pat. Obama did too but the “America is exceptional” Washington establishment undermined his Nobel Peace prize. If we are afraid of Trump being undermined by Washington, was Obama not also undermined by Washington? The ones that believe in endless war were Hillary, the neocons (she was widely praised by these war mongers and crusaders) and the Republicans.
Pat: “the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions.” This is a misunderstanding of the world’s technological transformation, our country’s fluid demographics and identity and also a misunderstanding that immigrants are just like cars and televisions, all products of international trade. Sometimes we get a Toyota built in Mexico and sometimes we get a Mexican. Sometimes we start a war we can’t afford in the Middle East to spread Democracy ala Bush II, but we get a flood of immigrants into Europe; a war Europe didn’t start or want but a war that Fox News* loved to sell to those “working-class casualties” that Pat mentions. Of course, this type of global immigration or “Third World invasion” was acceptable to the forefathers of our Constitution when it was labeled as slavery, our early form of economic global trade. Sad how this early form of global trade has given America so much in the form of our American culture. When these former slaves had suddenly become Americans that could read, write and vote, our own cultural “ethnonationalism” gave us the KKK. During those transitional times, the most horrendous act a white American could do was inter-racial marriage, ruining our mythological “ethnonationalism.”
Pat: Trump saw the “the surging power of American nationalism at home, and of ethnonationalism in Europe. And he embraced Brexit.” Most “working-class casualties” couldn’t care less about Brexit, nor about Europe, especially since most Americans have not been outside the country. Trump’s love of Brexit only mirrors his ideology of Nationalism. It is coherent. Most of America’s “working-class casualties” do not care about the EU, nor do they care about France’s upcoming vote. The only ones in America who care about France’s vote are those who care about the mythology of “ethnonationalism.” The weakening mythology of “ethnonationalism” is rooted in Europe’s and Britain’s own Empire building, remnants of their historical ambitious Empires. Pat likes to call these “Third World invasions” into Europe as if a breaking point has been reached, but these have been on going for most of the 20th century and into our 21st century, even before there was Globalization cabals out to destroy “ethnonationalism” and Western civilization. Both Trump and Putin support Nationalism rather than Internationalism, and they both dislike the concept of a European Union and welcome a resurgence of the myth of “ethnonationalism.” The only argument that should be made against this “invasion” is a very practical one; the assimilation of these large numbers of immigrants regardless of country of origin is an economic and cultural strain on their respective populace that can only be solved in a technocratic way but not through popular desperation nor by using rhetoric such as “invasion.” It was at the very least disingenuous for Angela Merkel to invite 800,000 immigrants with vague logistics and no economic nor cultural accounting for the effects of integrating such large numbers so quickly into German society. Even the previous assimilation of East Germany was a cultural and economic burden for West Germany. It’s interesting to note that in that sense, Angela Merkel herself was part of that first large wave of immigration and integration of East Germany into West Germany. Maybe Angela Merkel only gambled on a difficult technical process but failed to account for the populace’s overwhelming feeling of a threat to their culture, what Pat calls their “ethnonationalism”?
*Fox News promoting the ban of “French fries” because France did not want to join us in war in Iraq, never mind that French fries are originally from Belgium or that France fought with our NATO forces in Afghanistan against the Taliban, but really Pat you think “working-class casualties” care?
**His use of the term “corporatist” is misleading since the globalization cabal would never attempt to control the corporations. Instead the corporations are the ones dictating our country’s resources, politicians, laws and our economic prosperity. Trump is the true corporatist stating that corporations are answerable only to the interests of the Nation and its citizens, not vice versa.
http://buchanan.org/blog/trump-putin-detente-dead-126561
