Those who are part of the societal and/or political elites are all-in invested in their elite status – financially, professionally, politically, even in terms of reputation and their own self-esteem. They have built their ENTIRE lives around being perceived as the elite.

But this perceived value depends upon US continually needing … and therefore deferring to … them and their “superior” guidance. Hence the motivation to encourage its imposition as The One True Way in every area, through both social pressure and in some cases the coercive force of law.

They think that their investment buys them the authority to lord it over everyone else.

Donald Trump, in word and in policy, dissented from that paradigm. His policies instead expanded respect for and protection of individual liberty – including the liberty to depart from that One True Way when it doesn’t work for us as individuals.

That erodes the perceived value of elite status in this society. Which is a big reason why the elites were motivated to the point of collusion, to tear him down.

The Feds can get indictments against anyone they want any time they want. Especially when they are willing to commit fraud in manufacturing evidence of guilt. Given that, Trump must be the cleanest politician in US history after all the spying and investigations.

The more we learn about the raid, the more pathetic Garland and the rest of Biden’s stormtroopers look. I know they think their voters are brain dead (and they have a lot of reason to think it), but trying to justify this partisan witch hunt as legitimate law enforcement is way too much.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/may/16/james-risch/does-president-have-ability-declassify-anything-an/

https://mobile.twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1558231586423726082?cxt=HHwWhICjqefX-Z8rAAAA

Greg Hlatky:

I believe I understand what you are saying.

However, I’d flip that around and say the Ruling Class is quite correct to lose its mind over Trump. He (and we) are extremely dangerous to their Elite Project.

With Obama they came very close to sewing up the US into the Elite Project. With a Hillary victory it would have about been in the bag.

Then along came Trump in 2016 and his surprise victory with the Deplorable vote. Since then it’s been Dirty Trick after Dirty Trick. They can’t go back to pretending they are ordinary Democrats or liberals. They’ve let the mask slip all the way down. It can’t be unseen. They are radical authoritarians and worse.

After the 2022 and 2024 elections, if they can’t lie, cheat, rig, game the system, they will be wiped out worse than Nixon Republicans after Watergate.

The good news is that they are afraid and, I would say, desperate.

It’s somewhere in between. or rather a combination.

Trump isn’t just a MacGuffin, but he is a symbol, and more. Sarah Palin was a similar symbol before him, but because she never was elected VP that sort of faded. Trump would have faded from their ire, too, if he had lost the 2016 election. His winning was the outrage. They could not believe it, and he MUST BE STOPPED from ever winning again. Not just him, though; any Republican who isn’t part of the genteel NeverTrumper club. Any Republican who might really be serious about stopping them and especially about draining the so-called swamp. It is a deadly serious game and they are determined to win.

Trump himself said it, and he was correct: “They’re not after me, they’re after you – I’m just in the way.”

This is what the administration is putting out into liberal media — in this case Yahoo News.

This is just a continuation of the “Trump is an agent of Russia.” Many Americans still think Russia helped Trump and he is beholden to them. Vaguely mention espionage charges and what immediate association is made? Russia.