Trump Is the Trojan Horse for the Very Swamp His Cult Claims It Voted to Drain
MAGAts aren’t fighting the 'Deep State'—they are its useless idiot foot soldiers
If this $400 million dollar “gift” from Qatar says anything, it’s that the greed is the only value in Republican controlled United States.
While we can rest assured the chants of “drain the swamp” will be heard at the next Nuremberg rally of MAGAt dupes, far from a reckoning against the supposed “deep state”, Traitor Trump’s crime spree presidency is the “deep state’s” greatest triumph.
The con man who sold himself as “retribution” against an “establishment” is the deep state swamp’s most valuable pawn— a carnival barker distracting the masses with nonstop repugnant antics while the oligarchs tighten their grip on the neck of the body politic, and squeeze the life out whatever is left of liberal democracy.
This Time, It’s Worse
Trump’s first maladministration was a four-year looting spree that made inequality worse. This time, we tried to tell the MAGAt dupes that the “retribution” their god/king peddled wasn’t against the so-called arugula-eating “elites” —but for the actual elite’s greed-centered benefit.
Trump’s supporters, convinced they were striking a blow against people who liked to sip lattes (as if that’s such a horror), are nothing but useless idiots who installed a regime of Heritage Foundation ideologues bent on making their lives harder. These are the billionaire robber barons who view democracy as a speed bump that must be destroyed if they are to have total control.
Dear MAGAts, The “Swamp” is NOT Agencies That Protect Everyday Americans
The sad betrayal is that the “deep state” MAGAts rage against are agencies like the EPA, OSHA, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In other words, the last lines of defense against their complete subjugation.
The Trump Cult has been sold a bill of goods by right-wing propagandists who want them to believe that their enemy is the public servant working overtime to keep our water drinkable, our food safe, and our bank from gambling away our life savings.
It’s a cosmic joke, that the very people who would benefit most from a functioning, accountable government are the ones cheering as it’s gutted and sold for parts. But that’s the con man’s magic trick, isn’t it? Get the cult so riled up about manufactured conspiracies that they don’t notice as the real protections are dismantled, brick by brick, by the very grifters they’ve been convinced are their champions.
If MAGAts want to drain the swamp they should start by looking at the ones handing out tax cuts to billionaires while telling them their enemy is the EPA inspector trying to keep lead out of their kid’s drinking water. If only these dupes were the only ones affected. Sadly, they’re taking us all down with them.
The Heritage Foundation: Architects of American Feudalism
The Heritage Foundation is nothing but a fascist think tank bankrolled by billionaires opposed to democracy. They’ve spent decades pushing propaganda and policies making the dismantling of the New Deal initiatives that built the American middle class palatable to the very working-class dupes who benefit from them.
Though the worst president in history ran from it during his campaign, Project 2025 is nothing but a step-by-step instruction book for dragging America to the kiss up/kick down system the founders fought a revolution to overthrow.
Inside its filthy fascist pages, the assault on decency, dignity and democracy is detailed without a hint of shame. The eviscerating the federal workforce. The replacing of civil servants with fascist loyalists. The gutting and complete destruction of the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Social Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, etc. etc. etc.
The Heritage Foundation’s dark plan for America is a government stripped of the power to anything but serve the rich—whether “we, the people” like it or not. If they’re successful, by the time they’re finished, voters won’t have the power to do anything about it. The Heritage Foundation’s “shining city on a hill” is one that looks much like the serfs and lords system the United States was founded as an antidote to.
“America First” Means “American Oligarchy”
Not getting as much attention as the Heritage Foundation, but equally evil is “The America First Policy Institute (AFPI)”. Made up of corporate lobbyists and union-busters, its “policy” agenda is nothing but a greedy sociopath’s wish list. Slashing corporate taxes from 21% to 15%, killing antitrust enforcement, allowing monopolies like Amazon and Google to dominate unchecked, blocking climate regulations, ensuring Big Oil robber barons can pollute with impunity.
Trump’s first term was a dry run for AFPI’s agenda. His Labor Secretary, Eugene Scalia, son of late Justice Antonin Scalia, spent his tenure gutting worker protections (of course). As a corporate lawyer, Scalia fought to kill OSHA rules that prevented repetitive stress injuries and defended Walmart against wage theft claims, he revoked overtime pay protections for 4 million workers and made it harder for workers to sue employers for wage theft.
The pattern was—and is—clear. The Trump cabal never misses a chance to make the lives of working people more difficult. Scalia’s legacy was a revival of the Lochner era, a pre-New Deal period when courts routinely struck down child labor laws and minimum wage standards as “unconstitutional” infringements on corporate “freedom”.
For the fascist oligarchy at war with American democracy, it’s clear that “happy days are here again.”
The Swamp’s Greatest Trick is Convincing MAGAts That Trump is Their “In-Charge” Champion
Trump’s “successful businessman” schtick is a smokescreen for the “deep state” oligarchy swamp.
I don’t have to tell you, dear reader, the complete and utter bullshit that is Traitor Trump’s business acumen. We all know his scam businesses were propped up by Russian oligarchs and Deutsche Bank money laundering. His “art of the deal” is sold to dupes who think tax-cheating and bankruptcies makes him “smart”. Trump is a lazy grifter. That’s why he spent his useless existence hopping from one tacky grift to the next. The fact is, Traitor Trump doesn’t want to work. He wants to play at being president. He likes the ass licking and the “hail to the chief” when he lumbers his carcass into a room. As for the actual work of governing? Forget it. That’s why the United States had the worst death toll from COVID and why Trump’s answer to any policy question is “leave it to the states.” Because Trump doesn’t want to do a damn thing. He is more than happy to let the oligarchs fill his cabinet of freaks and curiosities and tell him what to do.
For anyone not dumb enough to think a serial bankrupt, tax cheating, convicted felon who destroyed everything he ever touched is fit to occupy the most important executive office in the world because he played a “successful businessman” on reality tv, we know the grifter-in-chief is the perfect vessel for plutocrats to hide their nefarious, America-loathing agenda.
The MAGAt cult, with their oh-so-easily-tickled racist funny bones, activated by QAnon fan-fictions about “globalists,” are deliberately led by their own stupidity to miss the real threat coming from Trump’s billionaire puppet masters actively dragging us to pre-New Deal America, where children worked mines, unions were illegal, and tycoons ruled without constraint.
Dear MAGAts, The Real Conspiracy is Staring You in the Face
I always wonder about how a cult that is so primed on conspiracies misses the oldest conspiracy staring them right in the face. Namely, divide and conquer (especially along racial lines) to make the rich richer.
Make no mistake, the Founders—Enlightenment thinkers who revolted against monarchy and intergenerational aristocracy—would equally recoil and rebel against this corporate feudalism and their front con man.
In Federalist No. 10, James Madison warned of “factions” that would subvert the common good for private gain. Madison may have been referring to political parties, but thanks to money in politics, the crisis is much deeper. The oligarch faction has completely captured one of the two major political parties and a large portion of its opposition. This is why at every opportunity the corruption gets more blatant and obvious. The most pathetic part of it are MAGAt dupes thinking Donnie 2 Dolls is giving his all to make sure the “forgotten men and women” are forgotten no more while he’s doing nothing but crime-in’ and grifting in the Oval Office while his owners kick them down lower on the ladder.
The American Middle Class Wasn’t Created Because Billionaires Felt Like Trickling
What MAGAt voters don’t understand is that the American middle class didn’t come about because some benevolent robber barons felt like trickling one day. The American middle class was created by government policy. Since Reaganomics, the American economy went from the most to the least upwardly mobile, from the slightest to the widest income gap of all western democracies.
During Trump’s last maladministration, for the first time since the first Gilded Age, the American middle class fell below 50% of the population. Of course, the “remedy” for that from Republicans and their god/king Trump—the “great champion of the forgotten man and woman”—was to increase income disparity and upward immobility by passing yet another tax giveaway to the rich.
Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefited billionaires, were lifted straight from Heritage’s wish list. With that, the worst president in history added nearly $8 trillion to the debt Republicans pretend to care so much about. Now, the freedom-loathing Republicans are poised to do it again with a new handout to the swamp that will add another $4 trillion to the deficit.
It’s clear, the only time Republicans remember the “forgotten men and women” is when they’re making them pay for another windfall to the swamp creatures who own them. Right on cue, the “deep state” oligarchs are coming for our Social Security and Medicare again—programs that lift millions out of poverty.
The Choice is Clear: The Enlightenment of the New Gilded Age of Gaslighting Grifters
As Justice Louis Brandies said, “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”
Will MAGAts Ever Wake Up to the Fact They Voted for The Deep State AND the Swamp?
America was born as a radical experiment of governance by reason, not divine right. Trump’s billionaire owners are waging a counterrevolution against that ideal. They’ve duped millions into trading democracy for demagoguery, swapping checks and balances for the worship of a strongman—all because their hate of the “others” made them so easily played.
History offers us a path forward. The labor movements of the 1930s and the civil rights crusades of the 1960s prove that organized people can defeat organized money.
It’s time for the MAGAt cult to face themselves. They aren’t fighting the deep state—they are the deep state’s useless idiot foot soldiers.
The “swamp” isn’t in Washington. It’s in the tacky Mar-a-Lago ballroom, the Heritage’s boardrooms, and Silicon Valley’s executive suites—and it’s drowning democracy in its bottomless, rapacious greed.
The question isn’t whether Trump is a buffoon, or a baboon (no offence to baboons). It’s whether his supporters will ever, finally wake up to the truth and join us.
Either way, progressives created America while MAGAt ancestors begged the King for a trickle—now progressives will have to save the Grand Experiment from the likes of greedy oligarchs again.
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