Does anyone besides me think it odd that pro-Trump
Conservatives are being fired as leakers and/or resistant to the Trump agenda
to make America great again?
Under the management of National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster, several pro-Trump
National Security Council (
NSC)
staffers have been fired over conflicts with their NSC bosses who seem to
suspiciously support Obama’s deficient policies. The
Washington Free Beacon
names
Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey and Ezra Cohen-Watnick as fired.
The
Free Beacon article below emphasizes the firing
of Rich Higgins for his
memo on a Marxist Deep State in
the U.S. Government, Leftist MSM and Pro-Islamists working to undo President
Trump’s election and agenda. Also, the
Free Beacon alludes H.R. McMaster is a part
of the problem in the Deep State Memo.
8/12/17
*************
Fired NSC Aide Reveals Political Warfare Operation
Targeting Trump
Higgins memo warns of Marxist, Deep State subversion
August 11, 2017 4:37 pm
A White House National Security
Council official has charged that leftist opponents of President Trump are
engaged in political warfare operations designed to subvert his presidency and
drive him from office.
Rich Higgins, until recently
director of strategic planning at the NSC, revealed the program in a seven-page
memorandum produced in May that warns of a concerted information warfare
campaign by the Marxist left, Islamists, and political leaders and government
officials opposed to the populist president.
"The Trump
administration is suffering under withering information campaigns designed to
first undermine, then delegitimize and ultimately remove the president,"
Higgins states.
"This is not politics as
usual but rather political warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly
engaged in the direct targeting of a seated president through manipulation of
the news cycle," he said.
Higgins, an Army veteran and
former Pentagon official who specialized in irregular warfare and who was
dismissed last month for writing the memo, said the attacks should not be
confused with normal partisan political attacks or adversarial media attention.
The former aide criticized
the White House for failing to counter the activities and said the political
warfare attacks threaten the Trump presidency.
"The White House
response to these campaigns reflects a political advocacy mindset that it is
intensely reactive, severely under-inclusive and dangerously inadequate to the
threat," he said. "If action is not taken to re-scope and respond to
these hostile campaigns very soon, the administration risks implosion and
subsequent early departure from the White House."
Higgins was fired by Deputy
National Security Adviser Ricky Waddell July 21 after the memo came to
Waddell's attention as part of an internal search for leaks from the staff.
Higgins's firing, along with
that of two other NSC conservatives, Derek Harvey and Ezra Cohen-Watnick, has
set off political infighting and charges from conservatives that National
Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is opposing Trump's populist policies
in favor of maintaining the policies of the former Obama administration.
Harvey, a retired Army
colonel, recently complained to McMaster about the large number of officials
who were kept on at the NSC from the Obama administration. He was told by
McMaster that he has a "leadership problem," according to people
close to the matter.
Cohen-Watnick was senior
director for intelligence programs at the NSC and ran afoul of McMaster because
of his conservative views.
A White House official said
McMaster appears to be trying to clear out anyone from the NSC staff who is
outspokenly pro-Trump and has been slow-rolling the president's directives that
he disagrees with.
According to White House
sources, Trump is said to be unhappy with McMaster and has considered
dispatching him to Afghanistan.
A possible replacement is
said to be CIA director Mike Pompeo, who is regarded as more of a Trump
loyalist.
An NSC spokesman declined to
comment.
Foreign Policy first
published the
memo on Thursday and quoted sources as saying Trump read it and "gushed
over it."
Higgins urged in the memo
that immediate action be taken to counter what he described as a campaign of
subversion reflecting "cultural Marxist" narratives used by political
leftists who are aligned with Islamist groups.
"In candidate Trump, the
opposition saw a threat to the ‘politically correct' enforcement narratives
they've meticulously laid in over the past few decades," Higgins said.
"In President Trump, they see a latent threat to continue that effort to
ruinous effect and their retaliatory response reflects this fear."
During the presidential
campaign, Trump was able to break through the leftist narratives and as a
result the political left regards him as "an existential threat to cultural
Marxist memes that dominate the prevailing cultural narrative."
"For this cabal, Trump
must be destroyed," he said. "Far from politics as usual, this is a
political warfare effort that seeks the destruction of a sitting president.
Since Trump took office, the situation has intensified to crisis level
proportions."
The opponents also include
officials within the permanent government apparatus, also called the Deep
State.
Other opponents are
supporting the Marxist subversion, including those within government, along
with "globalists, bankers, Islamists, and establishment Republicans."
"Globalists and
lslamists recognize that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an
ideal and as a national and political identity, must be destroyed,"
Higgins said.
The political warfare
campaign seeks to exploit differences in society based on sexism, racism and
xenophobia narratives. The program is implemented by mainstream media, and the
academic community is the main driver promoting the imposition of cultural Marxism
and derivatives of it.
Islamists, supporters of
political Islam in the United States, also are working with leftists who they
regard as having the best chance of reducing Western civilization to the
benefit of Islamic supremacists. The Islamists are seeking to divide American
society against itself as a way of undermining stability.
"This is the intended
outcome of hostile information cum political warfare campaigns and today we see
their effects on American society," he said.
Higgins also said a complicating
factor in the political warfare program is that "many close to the
president have pushed him off his message when he was candidate Trump thus
alienating him from his base thereby isolating him in the process."
The political warfare follows
the insurgency methods used by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong. "In
Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to seizing
state power," he said. "Political warfare operates as one of the
activities of the ‘counter-state' and is primarily focused on the resourcing
and mobilization of the counter state or the exhaustion and demobilization of
the targeted political movement."
In the Marxist strategy and
tactics, political correctness is being used to foster intolerance of political
movements of the right and toleration of leftist movements.
The attack narratives being
used are pervasive and can be seen in social media, television, and the 24-hour
news cycle in all media, as well as within the foreign policy establishment.
"They inform the entertainment industry from late night monologues, to
situation comedies, to television series memes, to movie themes," Higgins
said. "The effort required to direct this capacity at President Trump is
little more than a programming decision to do so. The cultural Marxist
narrative is fully deployed, pervasive, full spectrum and ongoing."
Information attacks against
the president are carried out through overt publicity and covert propaganda and
infiltration and subversion means.
The current campaign against
Trump is seeking to delegitimize the president, his administration, and the
vision of America he promoted as a candidate.
Key major opposition themes
are that Trump is illegitimate, corrupt, and dishonest. Secondary political
attacks include the notion that Russia hacked the election, Trump obstructed
justice and is hiding Russian collusion, and that he is a "puppet" of
Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
"Adversaries utilize
these interlocking narratives as a defensive political and information warfare
screen that silences critics and smears supporters of President Trump,"
Higgins said.
"When people in the
media question the behavior, actions and decisions of the Trump
administration's opponents, they are immediately said to be ‘working for the
Russians' or ‘supporting Russian propaganda.'"
Additionally Americans who
support the president are deemed "deplorable" and "racist."
"Attacks on President
Trump are not just about destroying him, but also about destroying the vision
of America that lead [sic] to his election," Higgins said.
Higgins concluded the memo by
noting that defending the president is a defense of the United States. "In
the same way President Lincoln was surrounded by political opposition both
inside and outside of his wire, in both overt and covert forms, so too is
President Trump.
"Had Lincoln failed, so
too would have the Republic. The administration has been maneuvered into a
constant backpedal by relentless political warfare attacks structured to force
him to assume a reactive posture that assures inadequate responses. The
president can either drive or be driven by events; it's time for him to drive
them."
©2017 All Rights Reserved
+++
Blog Editor: Thanks to
the Free Republic, here is an easy to read version Rich Higgins’ Deep State
Memo about inner-government subterfuge to take out President Donald Trump. The FP link by the above Free
Beacon article has a good summary but its Memo is one of those embedded deals.
BTW: I have noticed in
a Google search that every Mainstream Media outlet condemns the Higgins Memo as
crazy Right-Wing lunacy giving credence to the firing of the Pro-Trump NSC
staffers being fired. I gotta tell ya though. I question nearly every
condemnation coming from the Leftist MSM. And you should too.
The Complete Richard Higgins Memo
Circulating | May 2017 | Richard Higgins
Posted on 8/10/2017,
10:17:47 PM by BRK
Here is the entire memo...
POTUS & POLITICAL
WARFARE
BACKGROUND. The
Trump administration is suffering under withering information campaigns
designed to first undermine, then de legitimize and ultimately remove the
President. Possibly confusing these attacks with an elevated interplay of
otherwise normal D.C. partisan infighting and adversarial media relations, the
White House response to these campaigns reflects a political advocacy mindset
that it is intensely reactive, severely under-inclusive and dangerously
inadequate to the threat. If action is not taken to re-scope and respond to
these hostile campaigns very soon, the administration risks implosion and
subsequent early departure from the White House.
This is not politics as usual
but rather political warfare at an unprecedented level that is openly engaged
in the direct targeting of a seated president through manipulation of the news
cycle. It must be recognized on its own terms so that immediate action can be
taken. At its core, these campaigns run on multiple lines of effort, serve as
the non-violent line of effort of a wider movement, and execute political
warfare agendas that reflect cultural Marxist outcomes. The campaigns operate
through narratives. Because the hard left is aligned with lslamist organizations
at local (ANTI FA working with Muslim Brotherhood doing business as MSA and
CAIR), national (ACLU and BLM working with CAIR and MPAC) and international
levels (OIC working with OSCE and the UN), recognition must [be]
given to the fact that they seamlessly interoperate at the narrative level
as well. In candidate Trump, the opposition saw a threat to the
"politically correct" enforcement narratives they've meticulously
laid in over the past few decades. In President Trump, they see a latent threat
to continue that effort to ruinous effect and their retaliatory response
reflects this fear.
INTRODUCTION. Responding to
relentless personal assaults on his character, candidate Trump identified the
players and the strategy:
"The
establishment and their media enablers will control over this nation through
means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a
sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed." - President
Trump, Oct 2016
Culturally conditioned to
limit responses to such attacks as yet another round in the on-going
drone from diversity and multicultural malcontents, these broadsides are
discounted as political correctness run amuck. However, political correctness
is a weapon against reason and critical thinking. This weapon functions as the
enforcement mechanism of diversity narratives that seek to implement cultural Marxism.
Candidate Trump's rhetoric in the campaign not only cut through the Marxist
narrative, he did so in ways that were viscerally comprehensible to a voting
bloc that then made candidate Trump the president; making that bloc self-aware
in the process. President Trump is either the candidate he ran as, or he is
nothing.
Recognizing in candidate
Trump an existential threat to cultural Marxist memes that dominate the
prevailing cultural narrative, those that benefit recognize the threat he poses
and seek his destruction. For this cabal, Trump must be destroyed. Far from
politics as usual, this is a political warfare effort that seeks the destruction
of a sitting president. Since Trump took office, the situation has intensified
to crisis level proportions. For those engaged in the effort, especially those
from within the "deep state" or permanent government
apparatus, this raises clear Title 18 (legal) concerns.
•DISCUSSION.
The Opposition. While opposition to President Trump manifests itself
through political warfare memes centered on cultural Marxist narratives, this
hardly means that opposition is limited to Marxists as conventionally understood.
Having become the dominant cultural meme, some benefit from it while others are
captured by it; including "deep state" actors, globalists,
bankers, lslamists, and establishment Republicans. Through the campaign,
candidate Trump tapped into a deep vein of concern among many citizens that
America is at risk and is slipping away. Globalists and lslamists recognize
that for their visions to succeed, America, both as an ideal and as a national
and political identity, must be destroyed. Atomization of society must also
occur at the individual level; with attacks directed against all levels of
group and personal identity. Hence the sexism, racism and xenophobia memes. As
a Judea-Christian culture, forced inclusion of post-modern notions of tolerance
is designed to induce nihilistic contradictions that reduce all thought, all
faith, all loyalties to meaninglessness. Group rights based on sex or ethnicity
are a direct assault on the very idea of individual human rights and natural
law around which the Constitution was framed. "Transgender
acceptance" memes attack at the most basic level by denying a person the
right to declare the biological fact of one's sex. When a population has 2 + 2
= 5 imposed on it, there are many that benefit:
• Mainstream
Media -The principle mechanism for implementing narratives.
• The
Academy - Academia has served as a principle counter-state node for
some time and remains a key conduit for creating future adherents to cultural
Marxist narratives and their derivative worldview.
• The
Deep State - The successful outcome of cultural Marxism is a
bureaucratic state beholden to no one, certainly not the American people. With
no rule of law considerations outside those that further deep state power, the
deep state truly becomes, as Hegel advocated, god bestriding the earth.
• Global
Corporatists & Bankers - Exploitation of populations, unfettered by
national protections and notions of personal morality and piety.
• Democratic
Leadership - The democratic leadership has been a counter-state
enabler that executes, sustains, and protects cultural Marxist programs of
action and facilitates the relentless expansion of the deep state.
• Republican
Leadership - More afraid of being accused of being called a racist,
sexist, homophobe or lslamophobe than of failing to enforce their
oaths to "support and defend the Constitution," the Republican
Establishment accepts and enforces cultural Marxist memes within its own sphere
of operations. In doing so, knowingly or not, it becomes an agent of that.
These "conservatives" become increasingly indistinguishable from
their democratic counterparts save that they misrepresent themselves to their
constituents. Lacking the discernment to recognize their situation, they will
work with globalists, corporatists, and the international financial interests
and will likewise service the deep state. These establishment Republicans are
the hard left's designated defeat mechanism in the destruction of the old
regime as well as the American ideal. 1 Because candidate
Trump publicly exposed them for their duplicitous activities, they are at
risk as long as Trump can turn on them and are, therefore, bitter
foes. Candidate Trump's success remains an ongoing existential threat to establishment
Republicans.
________________
1 For more information on how influence operations
of the former Soviet Union targeted leading conservative groups and
individuals in order to bring them into line with cultural Marxist
narratives. See Link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzZhqeLRIMo
• lslamists -
Islamists ally with cultural Marxist because, as far back as the 1980s, they
properly assessed that the hard left has a strong chance of reducing Western
civilization to its benefit. Having co-opted post-modern narratives as critical
points, Islamists deploy these narratives to strategically blind and then
control US decision makers. This is by design and purposeful. "By their
own hands!" has been the declared strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood since
1991. This strategy seeks to divide American society against itself with the
forced imposition of Islamist objectives on one half of American society by the
other half. Once a society has been effectively atomized, the population will
have lost its faith in the old order, detest those who reduced it, and divide
along the lines of narrative adherence. This is the intended outcome of hostile
information cum political warfare campaigns and today we see their effects on
American society.
Complicating
the current situation, many close to the president have pushed him off his
message when he was candidate Trump thus alienating him from his base thereby
isolating him in the process. When President Trump is not candidate Trump, he
becomes dangerously exposed. While the base that elected candidate Trump identified
with his vision, they are only Trump's insofar as he holds to the vision that
made him president.
Political Warfare Attacks
-A Primer. As used here,
"political warfare" does not concern activities associated with the
American political process but rather exclusively refers
to political warfare as understood by the Maoist Insurgency model2.
Political warfare is one of the five components of a Maoist insurgency. Maoist
methodologies employ synchronized violent and non-violent actions that focus on
mobilization of individuals and groups to action. This approach envisions the
direct use of non-violent operational arts and tactics as elements of combat
power. In Maoist insurgencies, the formation of a counter-state is essential to
seizing state power. Functioning as a hostile competing state acting within an
existing state, it has an alternate infrastructure. Political warfare operates
as one of the activities of the "counter-state" and is primarily
focused on the resourcing and mobilization of the counter state or the
exhaustion and demobilization of the targeted political movement. Political
warfare methods can be implemented at strategic, operational, or tactical
levels of operation.
Political warfare is warfare.
Strategic information campaigns designed to delegitimize through disinformation
arise out of non-violent lines of effort in political warfare regimes. They
principally operate through narratives. Because the left is aligned with lslamist organizations
at local, national and international levels, recognition should be given to the
fact that they seamlessly interoperate through coordinated synchronized
interactive narratives.
Cultural Marxism - A Primer.
While the attacks on President Trump arise out of political warfare
considerations based on non-kinetic lines of effort (as discussed below), they
operate in a battle-space prepared, informed and conditioned by cultural
Marxist drivers. In practical terms, the political warfare assault on President
Trump cannot be separated from the cultural Marxist narratives that drive them.
From an operational preparation of the environment perspective, President Trump
is operating in a battle-space that reflects the left's vision.
__________________________
2 This discussion relies on Thomas A. Marks'
treatment of the Maoist model as discussed in Maoist People's War in
Post-Vietnam Asia (Bangkok, Thailand: White Lotus Press, 2007), 1-14. Hereafter
"Thomas A. Marks, Maoist People's War."
As used in this discussion,
cultural Marxism relates to programs and activities that arise out of Gramsci
Marxism, Fabian Socialism and most directly from the Frankfurt School. The
Frankfurt strategy deconstructs societies through attacks on culture by imposing
a dialectic that forces unresolvable contradictions under the rubric of
critical theory. The result is induced nihilism, a belief in everything that
is actually the belief in nothing.
That post-modern
(diversity/multiculturalism) narratives seeks to implement cultural Marxist
objectives can be demonstrated by reference to founding Frankfurt School
theorist Herbert Marcuse's repurposing of the term tolerance. In a 1965 ~
Marcuse defined tolerance as intolerance; said it can be implemented through undemocratic
means to stop chauvinism (xenophobia), racism, discrimination; and should be
extended to the left while denied to the right:
• "The
realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward
prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to
policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed."
• "Surely, no
government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such
a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This
means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could
develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination,
their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include
the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements
which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the
grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services,
social security, medical care, etc." (8-9)
• "Liberating
tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and
toleration of movements from the Left. As to the scope of this tolerance and
intolerance: ... it would extend to the stage of action as well as of
discussion and propaganda, of deed as well as of word." (12)
It is through such
post-modern constructs that interoperable narratives are established among
various left-wing groups as well as between them and Islamist groups at all
levels. For example, from the 2001 Conference of Foreign Ministers at Bamako,
Mali, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) declared its commitment to
fight racism and xenophobia and then declared lslamophobia a
"contemporary form of racism":
• In this context, the World
Conference urges all states ... take all necessary measures to combat hatred,
discrimination, intolerance and acts of violence, intimidation and coercion
motivated by racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
particularly against Islam
• Racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance which display an increasing
trend, in their most subtle and contemporary forms, constitute a violation of
human rights. 3. Contemporary forms of racism are based on discrimination and
disparagement on a cultural, rather than biological basis. In this content, the
increasing trend of lslamophobia, as a distinct form of xenophobia in
non-Muslim societies is very alarming.
That the OIC made these
claims as part of its planned inputs to the United Nation's "Third
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance" further demonstrates the coordinated and interoperable
nature of these narratives at international levels in international forums.
As cultural Marxist
narratives intensify, they are to be further operationalized in the form of
hate speech narratives. Hate speech narratives are non-random, coordinated, and
fully interoperable escalations of cultural Marxist memes. Key international
players include the European Union, the UN, and the OSCE, the OIC and the
International Muslim Brotherhood. Hate speech memes are structured,
coordinated, and implemented through these same international forums. They
involve close coordination with media and social media and include the
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) narratives. David Shipler's book
Freedom of Speech provides a road map for how hate speech narratives are to be
structured, deployed and enforced.
Battlespace. These attack narratives are pervasive, full
spectrum and institutionalized at all levels. They operate in social media,
television, the 24-hour news cycle in all media, and are entrenched at the
upper levels of the bureaucracies and within the foreign policy establishment.
They inform the entertainment industry from late night monologues, to situation
comedies, to television series memes, to movie themes. The effort required to
direct this capacity at President Trump is little more than a programming
decision to do so. The cultural Marxist narrative is fully deployed, pervasive,
full spectrum and ongoing. Regarding the president, attacks have become a relentless
24/7 effort.
While there is certainly a
Marxist agenda and even lslamist motivations that must be seriously
addressed in their own right, these motivations alone seem inadequate to
explain the scope and magnitude of the effort directed against the president.
The economic drivers behind the Marxist and Islamist ideologues are enormously
influential and seek to leverage these ideological movements for their own self
interests. While beyond the actual scope of this document, the benefactors of
these political movements include; Urban Real Estate who depend greatly on
immigrant tenants, International Banking who seeks to maintain US debtor
status so as to control the application of American power, and
elements of the business sector that depend upon immigrant labor or government
infrastructure. The overall objective of these economic forces is the forced
urbanization of the populace, thereby necessitating a larger, more powerful
government. In summary, this is a form of population control by certain business
cartels in league with cultural Marxists/corporatists/lslamists who will
leverage Islamic terrorism threats to justify the creation of a police state.
Adversary Campaign Plan. Political Warfare has been described as
"propaganda in battledress."3 The effort directed at
President Trump is executed along one overt, as well as two covert, lines
of effort:
• The overt line
of effort is PUBLICITY. Publicity is the straightforward projection
of a case that builds a picture in the audience's mind designed to garner
support. It is facts without context and information the adversary wants the
audience to possess that creates an impression and sets conditions. It seeks to
establish good will and receptiveness to additional inputs.
• There are
two covert lines of effort: PROPOGANDA and INFILTRATION/SUBVERSION.
o Propaganda is the deliberate
direction, even manipulation, of information to secure a definite outcome. It
is an attempt to direct the thinking of the recipient, without his conscious
collaboration, into predetermined channels that are established in the
Publicity line of effort. It is the unwitting conditioning of the recipient by
devious methods with an ulterior motive that seeks to move them incrementally
over time into greater belief and acceptance of message transmitted in the
Publicity line of effort.
o Infiltration and subversion operate
internal to the targeted organization in order to inform, target,
coordinate, and amplify the effects of the publicity and propaganda. Both
operate to gather intelligence, obstruct legitimate courses of action, provide
inside information, and leak sensitive information that undermines the
leadership and suppresses the morale of friendly elements.
______________________
3 "Political
Warfare Executive - The Meaning, Techniques and Methods of Political
Warfare," His Britannic Majesty's Government, London, 1942, 5.
o Infiltration of political and
social groups within a target state is done for the purpose of extending counterstate influence
and control. The endgame is concealed and may involve illicit activities.
o Subversion undermines or
detaches the loyalties of significant political and social groups within the
target state and transfers political and/or ideological loyalties to the
counter-state. As the counter-state forms, a counter-elite of influential
individual and key leaders within the target state will later facilitate the
legitimacy and permanency of the new regime.
Political warfare employs
both publicity and propaganda. It recognizes no intrinsic virtue in the news
but rather envisions it as a mechanism to exploit and build up support. From a
political warfare perspective, control of the news cycle is the most potent
means of attracting and building up a favorable audience. As it relates to the
news cycle, publicity and propaganda can be merged to form a
"pseudo-publicity" that is presented as news in furtherance of
sustaining pseudo-realities maintained by cultural Marxist memes.
Pseudo-publicity treatment of President Trump dominates the news cycle. The
current campaign against President Trump operates in the following manner:
The Meta Narrative. Meta narratives seeks to delegitimize President
Trump, his administration, and the vision of America he projected as a
candidate. With cultural Marxist memes serving as the backdrop, President Trump
is to be relentlessly characterized as unfit through the use of supporting
narratives acting to move unwitting populations to belief in the meta
narrative. Hence:
•"President
Trump is illegitimate"
•"President
Trump is corrupt"
•"President
Trump is dishonest"
Note that the twitter
accounts and mainstream media personalities pushing this narrative have seen
their audience numbers rise greatly in the past 6 months. This is a direct
result of the supporting and backdrop narratives channeling individuals to this
meta-narrative.
Supporting
Narratives. Meta-narratives are
supported by an ongoing series supporting-narratives that can be swapped out as
circumstances warrant. It is important to recognize that these stories do not
have to be true, valid or accurate to serve their purpose. Over time, deserved
or not, the cumulative effect of these supporting narratives will result in a
Trump fatigue. From a political warfare perspective, President Trump's
inability to meet this challenge will cast him as a weak failed leader. The
current list
of supporting narratives
include:
• "Russia
hacked the election" -
illegitimate
• "Obstruction
of
Justice" -
corrupt
• "Hiding
Collusion" -
dishonest
• "Putin
Puppet" -
treasonous
Backdrop Narratives. The backdrop to the meta and supporting
narratives are cultural Marxist memes designed to sustain a general sense of
loathing of President Trump and the America that elected him.
Hence:
• "[meta]
President Trump is illegitimate, [supporting] he was elected because of
Russian hacking, [backdrop] and besides, he a racist, sexist
xenophobe."
Adversaries utilize these
interlocking narratives as a defensive political and information warfare screen
that silences critics and smears supporters of President Trump. When people in
the media question the behavior, actions and decisions of the Trump
Administration's opponents, they are immediately said to be "working for
the Russians" or "supporting Russian propaganda." Individual
Americans who support the President are deemed "deplorable" and
"racist."
End State. Attacks on President Trump are not just about
destroying him, but also about destroying the vision of America that
lead to his election. Those individuals and groups seeking the
destruction of President Trump actually seek to suffocate the vision
of America that made him president. Hence, the end state is not just a delegitimized,
destabilized, immobilized and possibly destroyed presidency; but also a demoralized
movement composed of a large enough bloc to elect a president that subsequently
become self-aware of its own disenfranchisement.
CONCLUSION.
The recent turn of events
give rise to the observation that the defense of President Trump is the defense
of America. In the same way President Lincoln was surrounded by political
opposition both inside and outside of his wire, in both overt and covert forms,
so too is President Trump. Had Lincoln failed, so too would have the Republic.
The administration has been maneuvered into a constant backpedal by relentless
political warfare attacks structured to force him to assume a reactive posture
that assures inadequate responses. The president can either drive or be driven
by events; it's time for him to drive them.
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