The deep state is being exposed. At the highest Levels of our military, there clearly is and has been an entire establishment ready, willing and able to ignore one of the most fundamental elements of preserving democracy. “The Commander in Chief is the President of the United States, and the military reports to him, not vice versa.” There was a reason this was built into our constitution.
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-ii/clauses/345
“The Commander in Chief Clause of Article II, Section 2 provides that ‘The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.’”
This article reminds us that the reasons for this clause can be found in the Declaration of Independence. One of the major complaints against King George was the following: “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”
One of the whole points of separating from England was in recognition of the extreme danger of a military that did not feel restrained by the duly elected representatives in government.
According to History.com, following are some of the more recent examples of why we should all fear a military that considers itself superior to an elected government.
https://www.history.com/articles/5-famous-coups
Napolean turned France from a government run by an elected legislature to a dictatorship.
General Franco organized a coup to overthrow the elected government of Spain. While that government was definitely leftist, Franco turned it into a dictatorship.
Muammar al-Qaddafi overthrew King Idris in Libya. He ruled as a dictator until he was killed during the 2011 “Arab Spring” uprising.
Idi Amin led a coup that overthrew the government of President Milton Obote, who had led Uganda to independence from Britain in 1962. He was a brutal dictator until overthrown himself eight year later. It is estimated that his regime killed 300,000 perceived political opponents.
Augusto Pinochet was helped by the CIA to overthrow the government of Chile. While the U.S. was rightly concerned about the Marxist government led by President Salvador Allende, Pinochet turned Chile into a dictatorship that he ruled for 17 years.
The point being that there are always leaders in the military who think they can make better decisions about who should run the country than naïve and ill-informed civilians. History shows us that when the military overthrows a government, the result is seldom an improvement and frequently leads to a brutal dictatorship. This was beyond obvious to our founding fathers who wrote our constitution.
Today there is strong evidence that a deep state does truly exist in both our military and our government agencies. These unelected military leaders and bureaucrats believe they are legitimate government and they have not and will not hesitate to stop a President of the United States from implementing his agenda, even if supported by a majority of the population if it conflicts with their agenda. In some cases, they assume the President of the United States is just the temporary occupant of the Oval office while they are destined to remain in power permanently. President Donald Trump has challenged them in a way no previous President even considered. This has included appointing Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of the Defense for the simple reason that Hegseth is not and never has been a member of the deep state.
By the way, this also explains why liberal unelected activist judges feel that they have the power to obstruct a President of the United States.
The good news is that Trump appears to be unshakeable in his mission to root out the deep state and restore the democratic principles upon which this country was started. While some troll Democrats and the MSM by pretending Trump is planning on running for re-election in 2028, the reality is that this would be extremely unlikely. In any event, he will certainly be replaced at some point by another duly elected President, a duly elected House and a duly elected Senate. At some point all those activist judges will be replaced by another President, who hopefully will hold to the traditional standard of appointing judges who follow the rule of law, not try to create it.
The best news is that contrary to what some people believe possible, the deep state appears to be, finally, going off the deep end. Hopefully to be replaced by real Americans who embrace our constitution rather than secretly conspire to ignore and circumvent it.
TDM