It doesn’t matter if the MAGA movement dissolves. The country is only being partially run by Trump, there’s a new deep state we don’t know much about.…

Dave Winer

Dave’s thesis might be dismissed as paranoid Bluanon ranting — but somebody was prepared on Jan. 20 with a fusillade of executive orders and coordinated attacks on Congress, the courts, media companies and universities. I find Dave’s theory of a New Deep State more credible than the idea that Trump coordinated it himself. Trump is a genius, but he has a very narrow range — attracting attention to himself — and he’s an incompetent clown at everything else. Trump is a man-sized toddler. He’s not running things. Somebody else is.

They know Trump is old and frail, and when the time comes they will make a deal with him to retire to Florida, immune from prosecution.… “