Ron HartIf you wonder why the entirety of Washington and the entrenched ruling class of major cities hate Trump, it is simple. He may mess up their honey hole, the mindless money faucet that is Washington, D.C., and thus, the power so many derive from it. Too much power over our lives has been sent to D.C. Trump was sent there to bring some of it back to the people, and the “deep state” is fighting him.
Trump has a different POTUS-operandi than any predecessor, and it concerns the inextricably entrenched elites. He is indelicate, but he’s the right person to do it. It will be a nasty fight. No nice guy ever cleaned house.
Neither side of the aisle wants its ox gored. Republicans want more money for the military, even though we spend four times more on our military than any other country and more than the next eight countries behind us – combined. They keep us scared and fearful that somehow Islamic extremists, who do not have cable TV or processed cheese, will cross the ocean and get us.
You can’t justify an annual trillion-dollar national security budget if you make every country look like Montenegro. Trump shoved aside its president like his food order number was just called at Chick-fil-A, as if to say, “Montenegro, please!”
To grow the military industrial complex, it behooves the political class to keep us in constant fear.