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Great essay. Yes, the true answer to the title's question indeed is: The deep state.

As fact-filled and cogent as this essay is, no one article or book could really uncover what the U.S. government and the deep state are, how they work, and how it all came to be. But it seems that the job must be done.

What would it take to make Americans see what the U.S. government really is? And what would we do about it if we did see it? What COULD we do? Hypothetical questions, perhaps. But our future depends on finding real answers. If things continue as they are, our freedoms will soon be irretrievably gone.

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I am currently attempting to write that book, so stay tuned!

My feeling is that the American government is currently doing its best to show Americans exactly what's going on. The Biden corruption scandal is just way too big for people to stay complacent.

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Couldn’t put my hand on the reference today, but I read a long time ago that Trump certainly could have gotten rid of Fauci and was planning to do so, but the little creep’s entrenched web of minions in Public Health threatened to resign en masse if Fauci was ousted, and Trump feared the chaos this would cause.

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Interesting. I couldn't find any sources arguing he could have fired him, but have seen plenty arguing he could have benched him -- although Fauci has his own press contacts so perhaps Trump didn't want him on the outside pissing in. Who knows.

I'm not sure Trump really grasped the enormity of the task when he promised to drain the swamp, though.

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Jul 30, 2023Liked by Donna Rachel

No “gotten rid” doesn’t mean thrown him out on the street, but taking him away from all involvement in handling Covid. That intention was what supposedly provoked a threat of mass resignations. No doubt they would have resigned from specific positions of responsibility while keeping their cushy status as government employees.

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Which rather hammers home the point: they've become an independent, unelected arm of the state and need closing down immediately.

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