VIEW from behind the plow

Never have we seen such virulent behavior in American politics as we are seeing today.

The left-wing politicians are so angry that Donald Trump was elected president that they are emotionally deranged, even opposing policies that benefi t American people in an attempt to make President Trump look bad. The House refused last week to approve low-yield nuclear warheads to meet a defense measure recommended by Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, that would deter threats from Russia and China.

While President Trump was not our first choice for president among Republicans running for the office, he has done a remarkable job in the position despite constant and dishonest undercutting maneuvers by the left.

Comments on internet opinion sites from those who apparently despise him are juvenile in their name calling. One we recall was “pumpkin-fuhrer,” apparently in reference to his hair color.

Possibly the “sunshine president” might be a more appropriate nickname.

Shadow Government Lighted Up

He certainly has shone some necessary light on what has been going on in certain circles in the national government in Washington now unbiquitously known as the “deep state.”

For instance, we would have never known about former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter’s, lucrative position on a corrupt Ukrainian gas company, except for the president’s phone call to the Ukraine president, which elicited such hysterics on the part of the entrenched left in Washington. Hunter obviously was using his father’s position to enrich himself and possibly the entire Biden clan.

We would never have known about Joe and family’s nefarious activities except for President Trump. Think also of the meddling in the 2016 election by the Obama administration’s “intelligence” team.

That and other scandals of the Obama administration would have remained swept under the rug if Democrat Hillary Clinton had been elected president.

While the left pretends that an army of unelected bureaucrats is important to the welfare of the U.S. (because they are the really smart people and necessary to make important decisions mere elected officials aren’t capable of), an increasingly aware electorate went to the polls in 2016 to elect an outsider to the nation’s highest elective office, believing a new broom sweeps cleanest.

Jason Chaffetz, former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, has written a New York Times best-seller, “Deep State,” exposing how the politicized federal bureaucracy actively works to promote the Democrat agenda and undermine President Trump.

Chaffetz Book Review

A review of the Chaffetz work says:

The liberal media loves to characterize the Obama years as free of scandal. They pretend this is true because virtually every office in the executive branch worked to withhold evidence of wrongdoing, silence witness testimony, destroy federal records, classify embarrassing information, and retaliate against truth tellers. Yet these same tight-lipped lifers leaked like a sieve once President Trump was sworn in, freely promoting the illusion that everything he does is the new Watergate.

Sometimes even conservatives portray the Deep State as nothing more than dumb inefficient bureaucracy. In fact, it’s the opposite; the Deep State is intentional, unconstitutional, and organized.

In “Deep State,” Chaffetz reveals an entrenched leadership within the civil service that resists exposure, accountability, and responsibility. At the highest levels, they fight back, outlast, and work the system for their own advantage. And they certainly don’t like disruptive forces such as Donald Trump.

As chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Chaffetz was the tip of the spear challenging the Deep State and trying to hold them accountable. He and his colleagues took on the powerful forces at the IRS, the EPA, the DOJ, the Department of State, and more. The deeper he dove in, the more shocking he found the brazen approach by the power brokers. The balance of power has shifted. The Deep State has gotten used to operating anonymously and without consequence. This is a problem bigger than we can even imagine and getting worse. Unless we do something dramatic to wrest back control, we risk losing the ability to successfully challenge wrongdoing by the most powerful bureaucracy in the world. Chaffetz offered solutions you might want to read for yourself.

Trump Disrupted Playhouse

President Trump has been a tremendous disrupter of business as usual in the nation’s capitol.

Additionally, he doesn’t curl up and give in to leftist antagonists when they ridicule and undermine him.

He fi ghts back.

Some of it may seem too acrimonious to citizens but he is simply giving the left back some of its own medicine.

For too long, Republicans, who obviously are not all conservative, have let the institutional left have its way in Washington, thus the current national debt and other irresponsible actions.

The entrenched deep state thought it could complete the switch of America from a constitutional republic (you know, the one where government is responsive to citizens) to a socialist system if Clinton followed on the heels of Obama in the White House.

It remains furious the scam didn’t work.

This effort has been ongoing for decades and fi - nally – the left thought – the time was ripe for the fi nal step for a takeover.

When President Trump arrived on the scene in 2017, he became hero to many (those who elected him) and villain to others.

Obama’s CIA director John Brennan, cleared up any confusion about the existence of a deep state, when he remarked that executive branch offi cials have an “obligation … to refuse to carry out” outrageous or anti-democratic orders from President Donald Trump.

In other words, a coup.

The left’s unaccountable string-pulling bureaucracy came to seem (to it) less a sinister cabal than a necessary check on a president determined to blow up its playground (not its actual words).

Whatever anyone’s opinion, the Swamp is in turmoil and criticisms of the president roll off him like water off a duck’s back (to use a colloquium).