USA 2024 Elections Thread

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Did The Deep State Turn On Biden?

https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/15/did-the-deep-state-turn-on-biden/

https://amgreatness.com/2020/11/12/dont-be-a-sucker-high-trust-elections-are-over/
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
https://amgreatness.com/2020/03/10/an-ideal-deep-state-figurehead/
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/08/for-the-deep-state-trump-was-never-president/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlinology
https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-white-house-aides-not-standing-biden-book-2022-3
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/486503-sanders-klobuchar-and-buttigieg-ended-campaigns-under-great-deal/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-team-third-classified-document-discovery
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/312605-schumer-trump-being-really-dumb-by-going-after-intelligence-community/

Lately political analysis in the United States seems closer to Cold
War-era Kremlinology. Small hints of what is really happening must be
divined from the unintentional slips and innocuous gestures of
officials. The reality of governance is concealed by a cloak of
normality, procedural regularity, and legality.

This is to be expected within party politics, where things are
resolved with deals among party insiders, i.e., the proverbial “smoke
filled rooms.” This is why Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy
Klobuchar rather suddenly dropped out to make way for Joe Biden in
2020, after it appeared the divided field could end up with Bernie
Sanders as the nominee.

But this approach - secret groups secretly deciding how to control
events - is not supposed to dominate ordinary governance.

The Deep State Revealed Itself Under Trump

Donald Trump faced harassment from the Intelligence Community and
other unelected parts of government throughout his term as president.
Delaying the provision of funds Congress appropriated for
Ukraine—something well within his authority as president—formed the
basis of the first impeachment. A crew of insiders and bureaucrats
waxed eloquent about their sacred “interagency consensus,” but the
Congress and the American people were not buying it. Americans still
think elections are supposed to matter.

In spite of his manifest unpopularity and refusal even to campaign,
Biden was installed as president in 2020. Having rarely met an actual
Biden supporter, Trump voters were skeptical and angry. The extended
recounts, unceremonious dismissal of legal challenges, and videos of
disappearing ballots, along with strident denunciations of “election
deniers,” did not reassure anyone. Later revelations showed the
coordinated way government officials, the media, NGOs, billionaires,
and others conspired to “fortify” the 2020 election.

Biden governed as he ran: mostly hidden from the public, beholden to
donors and party elders, doing as little as possible. This seemed
acceptable for a while, since it allowed the various constituent parts
of the government to do what they wanted with little interference.
Everyone knows Biden’s never been that sharp and seems more decrepit
than ever, that his vice president is even dumber than he is, and that
he’s not really running anything.

But this is all a feature, not a bug, for the cabal that brought him
to office. For them, the more independence they have from oversight,
the better.
Biden Has Enemies

Lately, it seems there’s a disturbance in the force. Biden and his
allies have continued their vendetta against Trump, exposing his tax
returns and raiding his home for possessing documents he supposedly
owed the National Archives. This did not go over as well as Attorney
General (and all-around hack) Merrick Garland anticipated, and it
seems Garland and the January 6 Committee have each decided to scale
back their demands.

This is why the recent exposure of top secret documents in Biden’s old
office, his garage, and a mysterious third location suggests something
is afoot. We went from a Monday disclosure to a special counsel being
appointed on Thursday. Nothing like this happens this quickly unless
it is by design.

There are, of course, ways to deal with this situation that do not
involve public exposure. Couldn’t Biden or his staff order some FBI
agents or White House people to pick them up and take them to wherever
they’re supposed to be stored?

It’s in the news because somehow his lawyers found the documents and
reported them before the story could go through White House channels.
And, lawyers being lawyers, they followed the street-lawyer rule that
if someone has to go to jail, make sure it’s your client and not you.
Concerned about individual culpability for obstruction or mishandling
documents, they made this hot potato someone else’s problem as fast as
possible.

Someone is responsible for the way this information came out, and that
someone is an enemy of Biden. There are plenty of possibilities: some
secret Republicans at the Justice Department, Kamala Harris and her
people, a committee of Democratic Party insiders concerned about
Dementia Joe being president for another four years. The whole thing
has a whiff of a conspiracy, and, like the various allegations and
pretexts employed to investigate Trump, it may very well originate in
the intelligence community.

As Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) once said, “You take on the
intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back
at you.” In this instance, the hypothesis is not completely
satisfying. Biden has not really taken on the intelligence community,
so far as I can tell, unless they’re still smarting about how he ended
the Afghanistan boondoggle.
Republicans Should Put Country Over Party

Republicans seem gleeful over the news. This is unsurprising. It’s the
millionth example of rank hypocrisy from Democrats. But, judging by
past results, pointing out such hypocrisy does not seem to get us
anywhere. It may put a damper on Merrick Garland’s pursuit of Trump
for his alleged violations of the Presidential Records Act, but this
already seemed to have lost steam on its own.

Republican glee should be more restrained, as their excitement is akin
to aristocrats in Revolutionary France cheering on Robespierre’s
Terror when it turned on the revolutionaries themselves. Such a
development makes things more dangerous for everyone, even if it
sweeps up some of one’s enemies.

If the exposure of Biden’s apparent mishandling of classified
documents arose from an intelligence community operation, it shows
that the unelected deep state is beholden to neither Democrats nor
Republicans. In other words, it will have revealed itself as a
completely unaccountable branch of government, subject neither to
Congress, the president, the judiciary, or any ideological faction.

This would be a profoundly un-American development, but it would not
be a huge surprise. Instead of accepting the small fry of defeating an
already unpopular, not-quite-elected president, Republicans should
instead join forces with everyone of good will and focus on exposing
and defanging the unelected portions of government, which mean to
place themselves above every branch of government, as well as the
American people themselves.