“Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no Evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.” – Psalm 23
After every successful coup in history the Entrenched Power has had to defend its control against reactionary forces.1 It was true in the American, French and Russian revolutions and is true today after the Deep State Coup of 2020. The truth is, in true Tsun Tsu (and Mao) fashion, the Deep State consolidated its’ power decades before the 2020 Coup.
As the coup de grace ensuring the Entrenched Power stays in power unless forcibly removed, shortly after January 6th both Parties changed the Constitution to prevent any Representative and Senator from challenging future elections. No elected official of either Party told the American public of that astounding act. It had to come from Donald Trump during his interview with Tucker Carlson.
The coup wasn’t against the government. It wasn’t a coup of one Party against the other. It was a coup of both Parties against their own electorate. It was the easiest kind of coup. The kind accomplished by giving the people everything they want – like quicksand. In the final analysis, the 2020 Coup was against the Constitution.
The thread the Constitution hung by was cut completely in 2020.
Americans have been brainwashed into fighting three illegitimate wars lasting ten and twenty years respectively – with nary a complaint during the last two. Americans whole heartedly support “exporting democracy” when 92% of the money spent for those wars goes into their own pockets through defense contracts. But that corrupts their will to defend democracy at home. Why bite the hand that feeds them – even if it means being incarcerated in our own homes, forcibly inoculated, banned from associating with loved ones, and literally obliterating our individuality with masks (so symbolic). The total surrender of the citizenry, the pervasive presence of COVID Gestapo, and those ubiquitous “sustainment checks” bode ill for any meaningful resistance to the forthcoming repeat of 2020.
Are those indicators of the American character to be expected when the 2020 Coup is repeated and solidified in 2024?
I don’t believe Trump will be the Republican nominee for President in the 2024 presidential election. There are several paradigms of revolutionary warfare that portend Trump’s elimination as a candidate.
Paradigm 1: Historically, in almost every case where an “existential threat” is posed to illegitimate Entrenched Power, that threat has been eliminated either pre- or post- election by assassination (ask Putin). That approach requires an assessment by the Entrenched Power that the citizenry won’t rise up in an organized and well-led mass and drive them out of office. In some cases, the Entrenched Power successfully used the massive resources at their command to de-legitimize the threat – labeling the threat as a “threat to society” in its’ various forms – what the Entrenched Power is doing now to Trump. This approach doesn’t work when the opposition occupies the Moral High Ground.
Paradigm 2: “It doesn’t matter how many votes are counted. What matters is who counts the votes” – Stalin. Polls don’t matter (regardless of accuracy). Moral high ground doesn’t matter. Legality doesn’t matter. Public outrage doesn’t matter (in most cases). No amount of angry editorializing by talking heads on TV or radio matters. No amount of “sunlight being the best disinfectant” mouthed by a virtue signaling, moot majority of an ensconced congress matters. None of these matter because the Entrenched Power of both Political Parties control the machinery that used to guarantee our inalienable rights.
Paradigm 3: Reaction has to be well organized and well led. The American citizenry is far from well-organized sufficient to mount a significant reaction to the Entrenched Power. The historical “diversity” of America that coalesced into E Pluribus Unum at the Battle of New Orleans is not the prevailing diversity today. Self-interest, political polarization (even within Parties), and generations of the “good life” prevent any significant resurgence of the Spirit of ’76.
Paradigm 4: The support of the active-duty military. Although there are significant numbers within the enlisted ranks of the U.S. military who still have a conscience and a familiarity with America’s historical narrative, the officer corps consists of liberal college educated personnel preprogrammed by the Socialist cooptation of America’s higher education system. Since Pat Schroeder’s “making the military look like society” agenda of the ‘80s the military has been emasculated and given a frontal lobotomy.
The U.S. military has become as feckless in defending the Constitution as Congress.
America’s Entrenched Power now controls the most resource rich nation in the world. There is too much gained – and too much to lose- to allow the people to take it back.
The Entrenched Power has made its’ assessment regarding how to eliminate the “existential threat.”
But Great Britain had the same advantages then as America’s Entrenched Power does today.
There is a paradigm that counters all the above regardless of whether Trump survives 2024 : the population’s Perception of Legitimacy (and how they react to it).
Because of that Perception – and their reaction to it – most of our Founding Fathers survived the Revolution to serve in Congress – despite the best efforts of the British.
The question is: Have the American people lost the Spirit of ’76? Are there sufficient numbers of Americans who are willing to restore the Constitution and the American historical narrative by “any means necessary”?
1.George Soule, The Coming American Revolution, The MacMillan Company, 1934
