Deep State Retaliation

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
--V (V for Vendetta)

David Stockman suggests that the recent indictment of a young Trump campaign foreign policy official by special prosecutor Robert Mueller is part of a retaliatory effort by the Deep State. Deep State bureaucrats resent Trump's efforts to pursue foreign policy without them.

It is becoming obvious to all how the Deep State seeks to use legal machinery to get Trump. Dig up any dirt that you can find on low-level personnel and then, using the plea bargaining mechanism, which is akin to blackmail, make your way as far up the chain of command as possible toward the ultimate target.

One of the many grand follies of this entire charade, as Stockman notes, is that it pretends that interference in elections is frowned upon in Washington. This is the height of hypocrisy because "meddling in the political life, elections and governance of virtually every nation on planet earth--enemy, foe, rival, neutral, and friend, alike--is what Imperial Washington does."

Here's hoping that the Deep State's blatant attempt to sanction those who seek to defy its institution continues to open eyes.