medium | Trump fits into this system snugly. Among his draft executive orders is one that would open the door for US corporations to engage in secretive corrupt and criminal practices to buy conflict minerals from the Congo — which are widely used in electronic products like smartphones and laptops.
From
this broader perspective, it’s clear that far from representing a force
opposed to the Deep State, the Trump regime represents an interlocking
network of powerful players across sectors which heavily intersect with
the Deep State: finance, energy, military intelligence, private defense,
white nationalist ‘alt-right’ media, and Deep State policy
intellectuals.
According to Scott, this reflects
a deepening “old division within Big Money — roughly speaking, between
those Trilateral Commission progressives, many flourishing from the new
technologies of the global Internet, who wish the state to do more than
at present about problems like wealth disparity, racial injustice and
global warming, and those Heritage Foundation conservatives, many from
finance and oil, who want it to do even less.”
So
rather than being a nationalist ‘insurgency’ against the corporate
globalist ‘Deep State’, the Trump regime represents a white nationalist
coup by a disgruntled cross-section within the Deep State itself. Rather
than coming into conflict with the Deep State, we are seeing a powerful
military-corporate nexus within the American Deep State come to the
fore. Trump, in this
context, is a tool to re-organize and restructure the Deep State in
reaction to what this faction believe to be an escalating crisis in the
global Deep System.
In
short, the Deep State faction backing Trump is embarking on what it
believes is a unique and special mission: to save the Deep State from a
decline caused by the failures of successive American administrations.
However, what
they are actually doing is accelerating the decline of the American
Deep State and the disruption of the global Deep System.
