Donald Trump’s dismantling of the Deep State presages the formation of something far worse.
One Mind – by Mr. Fish.
The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny of intelligence agencies, militarized police, the largest prison system in the world, predatory corporations or the end of mass surveillance. It will not restore the rule of law to hold the powerful and the wealthy accountable. It will not slash the bloated and unaccountable spending — some $1 trillion dollars — by the Pentagon.
All revolutionary movements, on the left or the right, dismantle the old bureaucratic structures. The fascists in Germany and the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, once they seized power, aggressively purged the civil service. They see in these structures, correctly, an enemy that would stymie their absolute grip on power. It is a coup d’état by inches. Now we get our own.
Rearguard battles — as in the early years of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany — are taking place in the courts and media outlets openly hostile to Trump. There will be, at first, pyrrhic victories — the Bolsheviks and the Nazis were stalled by their own judiciaries and hostile press — but gradually the purges, aided by a bankrupt liberalism that no longer stands or fights for anything, ensures the triumph of the new masters.
The Trump administration has expelled or fired officials who investigate wrongdoing within the federal government, including 17 inspectors general. Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, such as the F.B.I. and Homeland Security, are being purged of those deemed hostile to Trump. Courts, as they are stacked with compliant judges, will be mechanisms for the persecution of state “enemies” and protection rackets for the powerful and the rich. The Supreme Court, which has granted Trump legal immunity, has already reached this stage.
“The original purge after the Shah’s fall sought to rid the ministries of senior-level holdovers from the former regime and to provide the revolutionary faithful with jobs,” reads a declassified C.I.A. memo, dated Aug. 28, 1980, on the then newly formed Islamic Republic of Iran. “The second wave of purges began last month after a series of Khomeini speeches. Lower-level individuals who had been part of the Shah’s bureaucracy, those with Western training, or those who were deemed to lack full Revolutionary fervor have been retired or fired on an increasingly large scale.”
The U.S. is repeating the steps that led to the consolidation of power by past dictatorships, albeit with its own idiom and idiosyncrasies. Those naively lauding Trump’s hostility towards the deep state — which I concede did tremendous damage to democratic institutions, eviscerated our most cherished liberties, is an unaccountable state within a state and orchestrated a series of disastrous global interventions, including the recent military fiascos in the Middle East and Ukraine — should look closely at what is being proposed to take its place.
The ultimate target for the Trump administration is not the deep state. The target is the laws, regulations, protocols and rules, and the government civil servants who enforce them, which hinder dictatorial control. Compromise, limited power, checks and balances and accountability are slated to be abolished. Those who believe that the government is designed to serve the common good, rather than the dictates of the ruler, will be forced out. The deep state will be reconstituted to serve the leadership cult. Laws and the rights enshrined in the Constitution will be irrelevant.
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump boasted on Truth Social and X.
Executive Power
Trump taking questions Tuesday after signing executive orders at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. (White House, Daniel Torok)
The chaos of the first Trump administration has been replaced with a disciplined plan to throttle what is left of America’s anemic democracy. Project 2025, the Center for Renewing America and the America First Policy Institute compiled in advance detailed blueprints, position papers, legislative proposals, proposed executive orders and policies.
The legal cornerstone for this deconstruction of the state is the unitary executive theory, articulated by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissenting opinion in the case of Morrison v. Olson. In Scalia’s opinion, Article II of the Constitution means that everything not designated as legislative or judicial power must be executive power. The executive branch, he writes, can execute all the laws of the United States outside of everything that is not explicitly given to Congress or the judiciary in the Constitution. It is a legal justification for dictatorship.
Although the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 does not use the term “unitary executive theory,” it advocates for policies that align with the theory’s principles. Project 2025 recommends firing tens of thousands of government employees and replacing them with loyalists. Key to this project is the weakening of labor protections and rights of governmental employees, making it easier for them to be fired at the behest of the executive branch. Russell Vought, the founder of Center for Renewing America and one of the key architects of Project 2025, has returned as director Office of Management and Budget, a position he also held in Trump’s first term.
One of Trump’s final acts in his first term was signing the order “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.” This order removed employment protections from career government bureaucrats. Joe Biden rescinded it. It has been resurrected with a vengeance. It too has echoes from the past. The Nazis’ 1933 “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” saw political opponents and non-Aryans, including Germans of Jewish descent, dismissed from the civil service. The Bolsheviks likewise purged the military and civil service of “counter-revolutionaries.”
Data Seizure & Enemy Lists
The firing of over 9,500 federal workers — with 75,000 others accepting a less-than-ironclad deferred buyout agreement amid plans to cut 70 percent of staff from various government agencies — freezing of billions of dollars in funding and ongoing seizure of confidential data by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is not about downsizing and efficiency.
The cuts to federal agencies will do little to curb the rapacious spending by the federal government if the military budget — congressional Republicans are calling for at least $100 billion in additional military spending during the next decade — remains sacrosanct.
And while Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine, part of his effort to build an alliance with the autocrat in Moscow he admires, he backs the genocide in Gaza. The purge is about gutting oversight and protections. It is about circumventing thousands of statutes that set the rules for government operations. It is about filling federal positions with “loyalists” from a database compiled by the Conservative Partnership Institute. It is about enriching private corporations — including several owned by Musk — that will be handed lucrative government contracts.
This deconstruction is also, I suspect, about increasing Musk’s cloud capital, his algorithmic and digital infrastructure. Musk plans to turn X into the “everything app.” He is launching “X Money,” an add-on to the social media app, which gives users a digital wallet “to store money and make peer-to-peer transfers.”
A few weeks after the announcement of X Money’s partnership with Visa, DOGE requested access to classified Internal Revenue Service data, including millions of tax returns. The data includes Social Security numbers and addresses, details on how much individuals earn, how much money they owe, properties they own and child custody agreements. In the wrong hands, this information can be commercialized and weaponized.
Anti-Musk protest at the Berkeley, California, Tesla showroom on Saturday. (Revel8er, Wikimedia Commons, CC0)
Musk is pursuing an “AI-first” agenda to increase the role of artificial intelligence (AI) across government agencies. He is building “a centralized data repository” for the federal government, according to Wired. Oracle founder, business associate of Elon Musk and longtime Trump donor Larry Ellison, who recently announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure plan alongside Trump, urged nations to move all of their data into “a single, unified data platform” so it can be “consumed and used” by AI models. Ellison has previously stated that an AI-based surveillance system will guarantee that
“Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
Trump has, like all despots, long enemy lists. He has pulled security details from former officials from his previous administration, including retired Gen. Mark Milley, who was the highest-ranking officer in the military during Trump’s first term, and Mike Pompeo, who was Trump’s director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary of state. He has revoked or threatened to revoke, the security clearances of President Joe Biden and former members of his administration including Antony Blinken, the former secretary of state, and Jake Sullivan, the former national security adviser. He is targeting media outlets he deems hostile, blocking their reporters from covering news events at the Oval Office and evicting them from their working spaces in the Pentagon.
These enemy lists will expand as larger and larger segments of the population realize they have been betrayed, widespread discontent becomes palpable and the Trump White House feels threatened.
Remnants
Once the new system is in place, laws and regulations will become whatever the Trump White House says they are. Independent agencies such as the Federal Election Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Reserve System will lose their autonomy.
Mass deportations, the teaching of “Christian” and “patriotic” values in schools — Trump has vowed to “remove the radicals, zealots, and Marxists who have infiltrated the federal Department of Education” — along with the gutting of social programs, including Medicaid, low-income housing, job training, and assistance for children, will create a society of serfs and masters. Predatory corporations, such as the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, will be licensed to exploit and pillage a disempowered public. Totalitarianism demands complete conformity. The result, to quote Rosa Luxemburg, is the “brutalization of public life.”
The hollowed-out remnants of the old system — the media, the Democratic Party, academia, the shells of labor unions — will not save us. They mouth empty platitudes, cower in fear, seek useless incremental reforms and accommodation, and demonize Trump supporters regardless of their reasons for voting for him. They are fading into irrelevance. This ennui is a common denominator in the rise of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. It engenders apathy and defeatism.
The “Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act,” introduced by Congresswoman Claudia Tenny, is a harbinger of what lies ahead. The act would designate June 14 as a federal holiday to commemorate “Donald J. Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day.” The next step is choreographed state parades with oversized portraits of the great leader.
Joseph Roth was one of the few writers in Germany to understand the attraction and inevitable rise of fascism. In his essay “The Auto-da-Fé of the Mind,” which addressed the first mass burning of books by the Nazis, he counseled fellow Jewish writers to accept that they had been vanquished:
“Let us, who were fighting on the front line, under the banner of the European mind, let us fulfill the noblest duty of the defeated warrior: Let us concede our defeat.”
Roth, blacklisted by the Nazis, forced into exile and reduced to poverty, did not delude himself with false hopes.
“What use are my words,” Roth asked,
“against the guns, the loudspeakers, the murderers, the deranged ministers, the stupid interviewers and journalists who interpret the voice of this world of Babel, muddied anyhow, via the drums of Nuremberg?”
He knew what was coming.
“It will become clear to you now that we are heading for a great catastrophe,” Roth, after going into exile in France in 1933, wrote to Stefan Zweig about the seizure of power by the Nazis. “The barbarians have taken over. Do not deceive yourself. Hell reigns.”
But Roth also argued even if defeat was certain, resistance was a moral imperative, a way to defend one’s dignity and the sanctity of the truth.
“One must write, even when one realizes the printed word can no longer improve anything,” he insisted.
I am as pessimistic as Roth. Censorship and state repression will expand. Those with a conscience will become an enemy of the state. Resistance, when it happens, will be expressed in spontaneous eruptions which coalesce outside the established centers of power. These acts of defiance will be met with brutal state repression. But if we do not resist, we succumb morally and physically to the darkness. We become complicit in a radical evil. This, we must never allow.
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East bureau chief and Balkan bureau chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and NPR. He is the host of show “The Chris Hedges Report.”
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I have a question for anyone willing to answer:
The Ukraine now has a stable head of state during wartime (no elections). People seem understanding of this.
Russia has had a similar situation for a long time now?
The last Russian presidential election was held in March 2024 in the midst of the war.
It looks to me like Trump is attacking the bureaucratic tools used by the Deep State to maintain and run the American Empire.
Trump’s Secretary of State has declared we are in a multi-polar world, not a uni-polar American Empire world.
Trump’s VP in Munich bluntly severed the US connection to the EU’s totalitarian policies, and by implication from the City of London Money Power that rules Britain and the EU.
I’m hopeful the Deep State agents in the US government who committed crimes will be brought to justice. This precedent must be set.
I’m also hopeful the creation of money will be taken back from the Deep State’s private “Federal Reserve” Bank, and returned to the Treasury Department. This would break the back of the American Empire’s Deep State rulers.
For more information on this latter point see the article on banking at War Profiteer Story.
hxxps://war**profiteer**story.blogspot.com
[To use above link please remove all asterisks, replace xx with TT.]
Trump’s World Wide Wrestling style of political combat annoys many, but it helped him wrest the Republican voter base away from the bankers.
It’s interesting reading the writing of many intelligent people.
We all flounder around in attempts to understand what involves many complex variables.
What we “know” and don’t “know” is often a result of what we want to “know.” And that is determined by variables unique to each person. My simple knowing is that the present and future have better possibilities under Trump than they did under Biden who I can identify well as having played a significant role in the beginning of the Ukraine war and whose opening the border wide to millions of people managed to exacerbate every problem this country has.
I cannot agree with several of the comments here: Hedges is no stooge of the left elite or anyone else. He is pointing out historical fact, that the actions of the Trump administration are very like the process of authoritarian movements toward dictatorship as they have always formed at certain stages of social change. Stresses form in societies and depending on the randomness of the qualities of the people most in positions of power, the stresses are resolved by appeal to human need or the domination of sociopathy in leaders. This time, for the US, psychopathology, political cowardice and greed seem to be dominating. I think that there are larger forces underlying these movements (population and environment primarily) driving the form of detailed actions, but it isn’t that ‘democracy is being redefined and rebooted by a semi-aware polity reacting to the misdeeds of a liberal elite’.
It’s not that Chris is a “stooge” … it’s (to me) more that he overstates the Christofascist danger while understating the military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academic-think tank (MICIMATT) complex that was already locking the country down in a destructive and undemocratic direction and to which the Trump phenomenon is a Reaction.
“(MICIMATT) complex that was already locking the country down in a destructive and undemocratic direction and to which the Trump phenomenon is a Reaction.“
I agree with this statement, but I would have to add that it is an ill conceived and ultimately even more dangerous reaction since it appears that the MICIMATT component of action is to be repurposed for even more direct personal authoritarian power.
Two points:
Pres.Vladimir Putin is not an “autocrat,” as Mr. Hedges claims. This accusation of the Russian head of state relies on the cartoonish image of Putin carefully crafted by the Western Russophobic mainstream media.
Secondly, to reply to one of the comments posted here, there was nothing “Russian” and nothing positive about the Bolshevik Revolution and ensuing reign of terror. That event was funded and supported by the West, especially Germany, Finland, and Great Britain. The brutal assassination of the entire family and servants of Tsar Nicholas II and near destruction of the Russian Orthodox Church almost wiped out essential features of Russian history and culture. There is much to be alarmed at these days, but surely Pres. Trump’s resumption of normal relations with Russia makes diplomatic and economic sense.
Of course the Ivy Ds are upset. They’re merely oligarchical; representing the professional upper middle class unaffected by a grossly unfair trickle up econ system. As well as elitists with the same fondness for war as their Best and Brightest predecessors.
They must envy the immense power possible for a plutocratic technocracy.
“Those with a conscience will become enemies of the state”
Speaking with the authority of a Christian minister, has
it ever been different for followers of the cross of Christ?
If so, can Christianity ever be called fascism?
There is a stormy foggy day in front of me and I am more confused than disillusioned. Am I alone on this?
I take your question to be more than rhetorical: no, hardly alone. The human animal, as every animal, has a sort of built in biological expectation that they can handle the events that confront them in life, that they are evolved and adapted to handle life. Well, we sure as hell are well beyond that sort of reality…and it is being pointed out to us with a vengeance.
UNTIL THEY PERMANENTLY GET RID OF THE PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS, SUCH AS, IMF, WORLD BANK, FEDERAL RESERVE, ETC.., PERPETUAL WARFARE FOR RUTHLESS PROFITS WORLDWIDE WILL CONTINUE UNABATTED. WHY?
INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE BANKERS OWN AND CONTROL ALL WESTERN ECONOMIES, INCLUDING MANY DEBT-ENTANGLED NATIONS ON EVERY OTHER CONTINENT, SUICH AS, AFRICA, ASIA, EUROPE, THE AMERICAS, OCEANIA AND ANTARTICA, AND MANY OTHERS, EXCLUDING, AT PRESENT, CUBA, VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA, NORTH KOREA, IRAN (OLD PERSIA), AND OTHERS I MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT! INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE BANKERS ARE ANATHEMA TO GOD-ENDOWED LIBERTY, LAWFUL CIVILIZED HUMAN SOCIETY, AND PEACEABLE JUSTICE THAT TREATS EVERY PERSON AND EVERY NATION, AND EVERY PEOPLE-GROUP, AS EQUALS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ORIGINAL ROOT-SOURCES OF WHICH, ARE THE WORD OF GOD’s ETERNAL SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS IN THE HOLY BIBLE. AND, NOTWITHSTANDING YOUR OWN PERSONAL WORLDVIEW, THIS HISTORICAL FACT IS UNDENIABLE, INCONTROVERTIBLE AND UNDEBATABLE – PLEASE, READ THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – “GOD AND NATURE’S GOD,” “ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS,” “AND FOR THE SUPPORT OF THIS DECLARATION, WITH A FIRM RELIANCE ON THE PROTECTION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE,” ETC…, INCLUDING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ITSELF, RATIFIED “THIS SEVENTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN AND OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE TWELF (John Hancock, President, etc….). I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR FORBEARANCE AND INTEGRITY OF CHARACTER IN THE PRESENCE OF PROVEN DOCUMENTED HISTORICAL FACTS. SINCERELY, LEO EMMANUEL LOCHARD *
Capitalist banking practices like usuary are destroying the value of the dollar as well as other currencies around the world.
Inflation is built into capitalism. The word inflation was invented to describe the devaluation of the currency by capitalist banking practices. A million dollars doesn’t seem like much anymore, soon you will need a billion dollars to have real money. There are billions in loans that all charge interest making whatever you buy cost more in the end than you would pay in cash. That’s how the capitalists “print” money. Their profit on your loan is added to the money supply just like the FED printing money. Inflation is the relentless theft of cash value by the profit motive unlike the up AND down price pressures of supply and demand.
It needs to be noted that the Declaration of Independence is a DEISTIC document, and not at all a Christian document. And the Constitution is an entirely secular document.
Yes, the Declaration of Independence refers to Nature’s God, the Creator, and Divine Providence but does not at all refer to Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ, or any other biblical figure, and it does not at all refer to the Bible.
The Constitution nowhere refers to God (except perhaps the ceremonial reference to the Year of the Lord in its ratification). The First Amendment establishes the vital principle of Separation of Church and State, and of Religion and Government. Article 6 specifies that no religious test shall ever be required for any public office or public trust. The Preamble specifies that the Constitution is ordained and established by We The People, with no reference to God or any deity, which was something totally new and unique, a first, at that time.
Some very important founders of our country, such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson (who wrote the Declaration of Independence), and Thomas Paine were Deists and not Christians.
Deists believe in God, or in the probable reality of God, based on reason and nature, but do not accept any alleged revelation from God, such as the Bible, the Koran, or the Torah as actually being such.
Personal disclosure: I consider myself to be a Deist. I am an ex-Christian; I have reasons for no longer being one. And I also have problems with atheism. I consider myself to be between 2 and 3 on Richard Dawkins’ scale of belief, where 1 = strong theist, and 7 = strong atheist. I very strongly lean toward believing in God but accept lack of absolute (or near absolute) certainty.
Here is an article about the Deistic roots of America:
hxxps://www.deism.com/post/the-deistic-roots-of-the-united-state-of-america
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing – Edmund Burke
Bear in mind that Hitler had a significant (and savage) paramilitary force, the Sturmbteilung (SA) who, when not tormenting Jews and fighting the Communist militia, were busy intimidating the public thereby making acquiescence an appealling option. Many people will go along to get along with bullies rather than to put themselves in harm’s way by standing up to bullies. . Trump doesn’t have anything comparable.
Tariffs, a two edged sword, will be his downfall – it will bring on privation which the public won’t countenance – nothing like high gas prices to sour the relationship between Trump and MAGA.
This was written by a status quo stooge. I have never liked or agreed with Mr Hedges’ opinions. Quite frankly, I do not know what he is doing on Consortium News, but I am glad that he is here to give us the opinions from the ‘other side’ .
There has been no indication that Trump wants to become a dictator. This is pure projection coming from the Deep State , projecting something that is exactly what they want for themselves. Comparing Trump to Hitler is becoming a very tired old trope. Godwin’s law being proven yet again.
Government agencies and programs he is gutting have been black hole money pits for a long time now, riddled with theft and fraud. Only thing I do agree with Mr Hodges is Trump’s inexcusable stance on Gaza. However, if he did try to do the right thing there, he probably would not live to the end of the term, call me a conspiracy theorist.
I commiserate with your confusion over Chris Hedges’ point of view. But I think his point of view is that both sides are Stooges of Empire. and like an oil leak in your car’s engine, the viewpoints of those destroying your only engine don’t really matter. Both sides want the same thing: complete control over the flow of money – they just have different versions of how to make that happen. Both sides are nefarious, it’s just the machinery of rule that is slightly different. The fact that neither side believes in democracy is all that matters. The pain we must suffer under either ruling party will hardly be differentiated by its origin.
Your comment makes me wonder if you bothered to read the article. I think that Hedges is no fan of the deep state, or the predatory institutions of the 1st world. I think some of the things he relates here are familiar examples the consolidation of power by bad men, so documents the “rhyming of history” rather than advocacy for the status quo. Hedges was a war reporter and witnessed the chaos and death that budding totalitarianism, fascism and/or civil war can cause which is something he has described succinctly (before being blacklisted from the mainstream media for relating uncomfortable truths ). This alone makes his perspective valuable to me.
addendum: I would agree that Trump doesn’t seem much like Hitler to me… I know a lot more about the third Reich than I do about Italian fascism, but he seems more like Mussolini, if not politically than certainly as a bloated sociopathic narcissist. Please don’t poopoo what’s happening here, it’s pretty ominous right now and this guy has the nuclear codes and his tech buddies have access to incredible amounts of information that could be used to identify “enemies of the state” including myself. It appears he is already “disappearing” non-citizens to Guantanamo, including political refugees. It’s quiet possible that the previously mentioned “status quo” may start looking pretty good
I don’t think Hedges really said that Trump himself was another Hitler, even if the techniques he is using to consolidate power seem quite familiar. I think that Hedges is no fan of the deep state or the predatory institutions of the 1st world. I think some of the things he relates here are familiar examples of the consolidation of power by bad men, so he documents the “rhyming of history” rather than advocacy for the status quo or in particular, former heads of CIA, FBI or State dept. Hedges was a war reporter and witnessed the chaos and death that budding totalitarianism, fascism and/or civil war can cause which is something he has described succinctly (before being blacklisted from the mainstream media for relating uncomfortable truths ). This alone makes his perspective valuable to me.
We have supported and encouraged religious cultural rule as a weapon and we are now turning it on our own western secular social system as rule by religious faith based discriminatory values like the age of medieval and monarchical rule. A kind of suicidal nostalgia sparked by the technological era of globalized civilization to restore old world order..
Between the Deep State and Trump’s “revolution”, I know which has done more harm, which can last forever (instead of passing away in four or fewer years), and which the media and money and security systems of the country have supported the past eight years.
We had two options: continue with the Democratic Party’s MICIMATT corporate/state perversions of law and society that were setting us up for internal collapse and external nuclear war or use the admittedly blunt tool of Trump to reset the system. The people chose the latter.
“We had two options”
Every time you are presented with this, you are being conned. Believe that.
Indeed … I voted for Dr. West … I meant “we” as in the realistic national polity determiners … with two national parties likely to win. Imprecise language, likely.
why would you think this will be over in four or fewer years? These guys are in this for keeps. there will be no “resetting” of the system, just new people running it with slightly different goals
Chris talks about the Russian Revolution as though it was a bad thing. It was not.
Seventy million dead and hundreds of thousands of exiled intellectuals might disagree with you.
Thank you Carolyn. The Bolshevik revolution was a good thing.
Comment above: This was written by a status quo stooge.
Trump’s wrecking ball is having some collateral damage, but we are WAY past incremental change.
This I will remember:defend dignity and the sanctity of truth = resistance. Thank you.
About as unreal understanding of current events as I have seen that is closer to corporate media than what actual independent media is saying. SMH
P.S. I AM AWARE THAT YOU, MR. HEDGES, HAVE MANY UNIVERSITY DEGREES, INCLUDING A COLLEGE DEGREE IN “THE SPIRITUAL-SCIENTIFIC FIELD” OF “THEOLOGY AND DIVINITY.” THUS, I HOPE AND PRAY YOU ARE FREELY INCLINED TO SERIOUSLY PURSUE AN AUTHENTIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUBSTANTIVE CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDING PRINCIPLES SOLEMNLY INSTITUTED WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A SYSTEMIC SOCIO-POLITICAL ECONOMIC FORM OF FREE SELF-GOVERNANCE UNDER GOD! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SINCERELY, LEO EMMANUEL LOCHARD.*
Thank Jesus that the Biden Regime is gone.
Hallelujah brother!
Is it your opinion that Biden’s was any worse than at least 4 other administrations I can name?