Have you noticed that the number of leaks of conversations, emails, meeting proceedings, etc. that are embarrassing to the Trump regime have escalated in the last month or so? Maybe it’s a result of the Supreme Court slapping him down on tariffs. Or maybe it’s the example set by the people of Minneapolis in standing up to ICE. Or it could be the fact that Trump’s age and possible senility are more and more on display. But the Deep State, what’s left of it, seems to have regained its voice.
What exactly is the Deep State? It sounds sinister, doesn’t it. And Trump used that perception of the federal bureaucracy to rile up his MAGA base out on the hustings. Then Elon Musk applied that negative interpretation of the term when he set about his disastrous DOGE housecleaning.
While it’s true that the federal government was severely bloated, as all bureaucracies tend to be, throwing out the baby with the bathwater in one thoughtless sweep was not only a significant financial failure, it was incredibly damaging to the ability to govern effectively.
The various federal departments are now aggressively trying to hire people to fill those vacated slots. Sadly, the best and brightest of the departed have moved on. And with them went the true definition of the Deep State: The institutional memory, experience and continuity that provide the lubrication for the vast machine that’s needed to run our country. And it’s going to take more than just ridding ourselves of Trump and his inept cronies to repair that. It could take a generation.
Now, not satisfied with turning everything in this country and hemisphere to crap, our Fearless Leader has decided to attack Iran and set the whole world’s economy on fire. Don’t get me wrong, the argument that Iran has been waging war on us for 47 years is a compelling one. Recently, Micael Smerconish, who I watch religiously each Saturday morning on CNN, cited a WSJ editorial by David Boies, who he promised was a bipartisan voice, that said we should support Trump; because he happens to be the wrong guy doing the right thing. I couldn’t access the article in question, but between Smerc’s description and a succeeding interview pf Boies in the New Yorker, I got the gist that argument. I may not be smarter than Smerconish, still I can immediately see its major fallacy: Yes, the elimination of the Iranian regime needed to be done before they acquired nukes. No, the threat was not imminent. Ergo, this job would have been better left to someone who actually had a plan, who actually thought through the consequences, so as to do it without putting us, and everyone else on the planet, behind the eight ball.
Yadda-yadda-yadda. I guess we’re all used to the absolute lunacy that we, as Americans, voted into office. And who cares if gas is $5 a gallon. We in the illuminati can all afford that. We’re certainly not rooting for the Iranians, nor do we want to see any American service people killed or injured, yet there is a certain schadenfreude that attends seeing Trump and Hegseth being frustrated in their war of choice.
While we have become inured, from our comfortable distance, to all the lies, corruption, the ongoing destruction of our democratic institutions, and, now, even this horrible war, there are some things that can still raise our bile. I give you his recent comments about Robert Mueller’s death. I don’t need to go into the details of this heroic soldier and public servant’s life. You’ve already heard about them. But Orange Jesus found a way to turn even an event this somber into doo-doo. After besmirching this real patriot in such a crude, vulgar, moronic way, I can only hope that when he finds himself in his next job, replacing Satan in Hell, his personal chauffeur will be Tiger Woods.
© 2026, David B Bucher
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