Paranoia Strikes Deep (State)

Trump has been trying to dismantle the government with a vengeance.

In addition, he's also aimed his gunsights at liberal-leaning law firms and Democratic activist groups .  He's even suggested that MNBC and CNN should be illegal.  And what's his explanation for all this?  he says that the Washington elites and the deep state are trying to prevent him from reforming government.

There's actually a precedent for Trump's insistence that the government and the legal system are trying to stop him from accomplishing what he's trying to accomplish in the public sector. The federal legal system actually did try to stop people from accomplishing things back in the 1940s and 1950s - they denigrated people who protested against segregation, the destruction of public transportation (which benefited the Big Three and Big Oil), or in favor of a national medical insurance program that Harry Truman tried to get passed. It wasn't just Joe McCarthy's communist which hunts; how about J. Edgar Hoover, who served under every President from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon and had files on almost all of them? So a lot of people find Trump's argument plausible.

This is what happens when you allow paranoia and conspiracy theories to take root and also allow nefarious people like Donald Trump - and Big Oil executives, to whom he's aligned - to ensure that the system is rigged in their own favor.