Misplaced Patriotism Is Damaging to Our Constitutional Order
By Victor Davis Hanson
November 21, 2019 6:30 AM
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Misplaced Patriotism Is Damaging to Our Constitutional Order
By Victor Davis Hanson
November 21, 2019 6:30 AM
George Kent (left), deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, and William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, are sworn in during a House Intelligence Committee hearing in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, November 13, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters)
In these upside-down times, patriotism is being redefined as removing a president before a constitutionally mandated election.
For most of the last three years, Donald Trump’s critics have scoffed at supposed “conspiracy theories†that claimed a “deep state†of bureaucrats were aborting the Trump presidency. We have been told the word “coup†is hyperbole that reveals the paranoid minds of Trump supporters.
Yet oddly, many people brag that they are proud members of a deep state and occasionally boast about the idea of a coup.
Recently, former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin proclaimed in a public forum, “Thank God for the deep state.†Former CIA director John Brennan agreed and praised the “deep state people†for their opposition to Trump.
Far from denying the danger of an unelected careerist bureaucracy that seeks to overturn presidential policies, New York Times columnists have praised its efforts to nullify the Trump agenda.
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