Does the political Left have "breakaway" power in America?
(Trump Versus the Hive, Part 17) - Have we reached a tipping point where the Left has the power to take more power unopposed, but for Trump?
“Breakaway” - the Left’s power to seize more power
But for Trump, the political Left has achieved “breakaway” power, the power to take incrementally more power. Now the slide to effectively a one-party system and authoritarianism is just a slippery slope…except for pesky Trump standing in the way.
The Left not only dominate the major government institutions, but likewise dominate the hiring there. One DOJ study found more than double the number of liberal candidates applying for a summer internship program compared to conservatives, and another found 81% of candidates had liberal affiliations and 6% had conservative.[1] Efforts to balance this and thus political views within the DOJ were met with rebuke and a committee on how to stop the efforts to rebalance. Plans to not consider political views in hiring is a convenient policy of the Left, as this policy causes disproportionate hiring to continue, and translate to perpetual Left dominance of the DOJ.
Conservatives believe in justice at least as much as liberals, so such candidate discrepancies appears directly related to the trifecta of liberal control of education, media, and law enforcement. Left media also presents itself more intellectually, having a more socially acceptable status for high-level figures. If one doesn’t read the same media, they are not “in the know.”
This may explain how virtually all of Mueller’s team investigating Trump for Russia collusion were Democrats.[2]
The Left-media also portrays its values and perspectives as the only moral and justified one, and can continue to control the narrative in case of continued escalation. In fact, escalation of divisions is encouraged by their ability to control such narratives, because it allows the Left entity to feed off the divisions, create battles and win them, gaining even more power.
In short, the Left feels they have the physical and institutional power and media control over ideas and process to stop any efforts by the Right to rebalance the country….as long as they Stop Trump.
The Left feels they have the power to pressure and convert the Bill Barrs and Mike Pences of the world to side with them, and avoid the true intellectual debate that is desperately needed. In short, they believe they can win without fighting and maintain the apparent moral high ground.
If the Left stops Trump - the maverick and rebel who miraculously got into power without the media’s permission - the Left will feel they have the power to stop any future candidate seeking to rebalance the Left’s dominance of the system.
Breakaway power by the Left may include the following future courses:
- Dems will have the power to reputationally destroy any Republican candidate who does not accept their narratives by labeling them “MAGA”, “insurgent”, or “insurrectionist”, utilizing on already-embedded emotional triggers on new targets, (“they are just ‘another Trump’”)
- DOJ employees who oppose the Left’s increasing systemic and bureaucratic power can receive the same,
- Journalists, news editors, and media board members who do not support the Left’s media agenda can pressured from their positions, like Bari Weiss from the New York Times,
- Media can label any opposing ideas or facts “conspiracy theory” or “MAGA”, like the Hunter Biden laptop and Joe Biden bribery allegations, taking years to get them to light,
- Alternate media that supports rebalancing ideas will be ignored; and if they persist, denounced, mislabeled, undermined, cancelled or even prosecuted,
- Businesses can continue to boycott financial resources of opposing ideologies, for example, not invest in or advertise with conservative outlets,
Think it can’t happen? After Left-leaning social media shadow-banned conservative voices and ideas, conservatives launched Parler intended to be a free speech platform, Google, Amazon, and the Apple app download store all booted Parler from their platforms.[3]
Importantly, Trump is not seeking Right dominance of the media or Justice Department, merely a rebalance of the dramatic Leftward slide of the past couple of decades.
The Left mocked Trump’s accusations of a “deep state”, while near-simultaneously appearing in the New York Times was then anonymous, now author Former Dept. of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor’s article, “I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration.” Former FBI Director Comey wrote a book justifying similar, entitled, “A Higher Loyalty.” The question of course, is whether the higher loyalty is to the Constitution and America, or their Left-opinion of what America needs.
In Obama’s Justice Department, not a single opposer or whistleblower or insider posed a threat to the regime, partly because conservatives tend not to be “activists” in this sense by nature, and partly because they would have been ignored or attacked, whereas Trump opposers are encouraged and labeled heroes.
While Trump and Obama are both seen as messianic by their own sides, their treatment by supposedly neutral institutions like media and government gives a vital perspective on those institutions, thus highlighting the danger.
Trump never had control over his own Justice Department, and never sought dominance, but merely balance in the new political world he didn’t understand.
- Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions immediately recused himself days into the Administration when needed most, amidst the 22-month Democrat-funded Crossfire Hurricane-initiated Mueller investigation. This left Trump without an Attorney General, and yet afraid to fire and replace Sessions.
- Trump kept Comey on as FBI director for a significant time even after failing to prosecute Hillary, and discovering Comey was actively working against him.
- Trump did not fire Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein who appointed a special counsel to investigate him and his advisors based on a Democratic political dossier, and also actively worked against him.
- When Trump could finally hire a new Attorney General, he hired not a far-right personality, but a reputably neutral Bill Barr, who brought no prosecutions of any of Trump’s political opponents, instead bottlenecked them by requiring they all go through him, and repeatedly publicly criticized Trump instead. Essentially, Trump hired a political opponent, thinking the appearance of fairness would win him points on nobility. While Trump was accused of trying to use Barr and the DOJ as his own personal lawyer, exactly the opposite was true. Could you imagine Holder appointing a special counsel to go after Obama?