If you want a sense of “deep state history”, read the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in all six volumes, written by Edward Gibbon in the 1780s. I have the one-volume condensed version, and in just reading that,…
Category: Bureaucrcy
The National ID Card: How American Liberty Will Change Under Any One of the Isms
The Moral Majority was a group of Protestant political activists who used some new marketing techniques, mass mailing, to help Ronald Reagan defeat Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. This was before the rise of the internet which would…
What Will the Intel Agencies do if The Devil is Saved?
This isn’t about North Korea, but the American intelligence communities, but you know I’m right here. When Donald Trump became president he looked at the totalitarian regime in North Korea through an entirely different lens than had all the presidents…