Tag: Deep State

No, Trump Is Not Planning to Be a Dictator

Commentary The headline in the New York Times seems terrifying. “Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025.” The article explains that they “are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive…


The Defenders of Censorship Now Admit Everything

Commentary They no longer deny censoring. They have shifted tactics. Now they defend censorship as a policy in the national interest. They are merely stamping out disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation—strange words applied to any thought or idea disliked by government. And they are furious that a federal judge in Louisiana has called them out, issuing…


CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life

Commentary Keeping up with the corruption of the COVID regime feels like drinking from a firehose. The volume of the fraud, the pace of new discoveries, and the breadth of the operations are overwhelming. This makes it imperative for groups like Brownstone Institute to digest the onslaught of information and communicate salient themes and dispositive…


Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns

Commentary It’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of…


Two Tiers of Justice

Commentary The elite set of individuals that sit atop our federal agencies have completely weaponized our entire government apparatus. It is no longer a one-off “mistake,” but rather the intentional creation of a two-tier system of justice that has gone unchecked. The resulting impact is a death knell for American faith in all three branches…


Deep State Rot and Corruption Festers with Russiagate Unpunished and Receding

Commentary As special counsel John Durham’s report demonstrated in stark detail, our national security and law enforcement apparatus has grown hyper-politicized and been weaponized against its perceived opponents. Since virtually none of the powerful perpetrators of Russiagate—one of the greatest and gravest scandals in American history—have been held to account for it, including by the…


Former Justice Department Official Says Russiagate Reports Cover Up DOJ Crimes

Jeffrey Clark had a front-row seat to the “Get Trump” plot. As assistant attorney general in William Barr’s Justice Department, he had hopes the department’s investigations of its own bad actions would hold the conspirators to account. But instead of exposing the full extent of federal law enforcement’s corrupt activities, all they offered was what…


[PREMIERING NOW] Former Justice Department Official Says Russiagate Reports Cover Up DOJ Crimes

Jeffrey Clark had a front-row seat to the “Get Trump” plot. As assistant attorney general in William Barr’s Justice Department, he had hopes the department’s investigations of its own bad actions would hold the conspirators to account. But instead of exposing the full extent of federal law enforcement’s corrupt activities, all they offered was what…


PREMIERING at 11AM ET: Former Justice Department Official Says Russiagate Reports Cover Up DOJ Crimes

Jeffrey Clark had a front-row seat to the “Get Trump” plot. As assistant attorney general in William Barr’s Justice Department, he had hopes the department’s investigations of its own bad actions would hold the conspirators to account. But instead of exposing the full extent of federal law enforcement’s corrupt activities, all they offered was what…


The Paper of Record Fronts for the Deep State

Commentary There was hardly time in the day but I simply could not pull myself away from the discussion between Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., yesterday on Twitter Spaces. I was there mid-afternoon with nearly 70 thousand others listening to a live conversation on every topic from foreign policy to economics to civil…