We are a nation of some 332 million people, 360 million if we count the illegals.  Given that mass of humanity, it’s remarkable to contemplate just how much one person has been able to affect the nation.  That person, of course, is Donald Trump.  Never has there been such a threat to the system.  No, not a threat to “our democracy,” whatever that means.  Not a threat to our national security, to law and order, or to any minority group, real or imagined.  Not a threat to democracy, but a threat to political orthodoxy, the corrupt system run by the elites of the deep State – the people who will permit us to have elections, just so long as we keep electing candidates who are willing to play their crooked game.  Candidates are allowed to promise big changes: for example, FDR’s New Deal; JFK’s New Frontier; LBJ’s Great Society; Il Duce Obama’s Hope and Change.  You can have all the catchy phrases you like to get elected, so long as, once you are elected you don’t change the status quo.  Translation – you don’t threaten to upset the plans of the elected crooks and the rich pricks who put the elected crooks in office.  The Deep State consists of the elected crooks, the formerly elected crooks who now are lobbyists making sure that the rich pricks get richer, and the insidious bureaucracy that infests every department of the government.  These are the people who run the government, regardless of what the current occupant of the White House says he wants.  The State Department is a perfect example.  Before Trump ran for president, he met with Henry Kissinger, and Kissinger’s advice was, “don’t listen to the State Department.”  It’s always been that way.  Harry Truman recognized the State of Israel after the State Department told him “you can’t do that.”  Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem over the objection of the State Department.  Every time Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden says he’s going to defend Taiwan, the State Department says, “No we’re not.”  The thing is, presidents come and go, but the Deep State is forever.  Then along came Trump in 2016.  At first, the Deep State wasn’t concerned.  Candidates make a lot of promises, and anyway, Trump was considered a joke.  Hillary would make quick work of Trump, then they could let the good times roll.  Only she didn’t.  And one man who actually did the things he had promised set the Establishment on fire, and caused it to show its ugly hand.  If Trump would have just played ball they might have left him alone, but he didn’t, and they couldn’t permit “an outsider” to beat them at their own game.  The “outsider” moniker is a bit misleading.  Donald Trump wasn’t an outsider, meaning someone not involved in the system.  He was one of the rich guys that the elected crooks, including Hillary, relied upon for finance.  That’s the main reason they hate him.  Think of it this way.  Ben Carson was an outsider, a true innocent, who tried to crack into the system, and you saw what happened to him.  But Trump was part of the system, or so they all assumed.  When it became clear to the Deep State that Trump actually intended to do what he promised to do, he had to be stopped.  And in order to stop Trump, the Deep State was willing to blatantly disregard the law, the Constitution, and any semblance of honesty or integrity.  Think about it.  The Democrats are willing to destroy the law, and the Constitution in order to stop Trump.  The CIA and the FBI spied on Trump before the election, and undermined him after he was elected.  The State Department released private phone calls Trump had with world leaders to embarrass him.  The military defied his orders.  The public relations staff of the Deep State, also known as the media, discarded any notion of impartial  journalism in order to hound Trump day and night.  More than 95% of media coverage of Trump was negative.  Democrats impeached Trump twice, over nothing, to try to stop him.  He faced a phony special counsel investigation for nearly two years over fake Russian collusion allegations that we now know (anyone who reads these pages knew it five years ago) were lies bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton.  And his own Party was even worse.  Republican leaders fought Trump every step of the way.  They blocked his proposals and fought his policies.  Yet despite being opposed by both Parties and the media, Trump lowered taxes, grew jobs, fixed the military, closed the border, pacified North Korea, Iran and China, fixed trade agreements, and had the economy soaring.  It took the Wuhan plague and two impeachments to slow him down, and they finally beat him in 2020.  But now, with the prospect of a Trump return, the Deep State is again in a panic.  Democrats have enlisted a new special counsel to try to indict and jail him.  Republicans are willing to lose the next presidential election if they can stop Trump.  Democrats are even willing to throw away their best hope of winning in 2024.  Everything Democrats have done for seven years has been designed to damage Donald Trump.  Because of seven years of bad press, mostly consisting of lies, the Trump name has been damaged beyond repair.  It’s not fair, but it’s done.  They have convinced half the electorate never to vote for Trump.  The only hope Democrats have in 2024 is to run against a crippled Donald Trump.  Yet they still consider him such a threat that they still want to destroy him so he can’t run again.  Such is the fear that their entire corrupt money-making machine may be disrupted by perhaps the one honest man who ever has been our president in recent times.  Even the Murdoch Fox, NY Post, Wall Street Journal machine is against him now.  This week, a Journal columnist actually wrote an article comparing Trump to FTX crypto-currency crook Sam Bankman.  Trump is a patriot who increased the wealth of the nation and every person in it.  Bankman is a thief who bankrupted his company, absconded with billions in clients’ funds, and is hiding out in the Bahamas.  The fact that the Justice Department has appointed a Special Counsel to go after Trump, while Bankman basks in the sun, is all you have to know about the system.  Personally, I think too much damage has been done, and that Trump’s time has passed.  I’m afraid we can’t afford a candidate in 2024 who starts with both hands tied behind his back.  It’s not fair, but it happens to be the reality.