Democrats Have Crossed the Rubicon. Plus: Defining Deviance Down

A grand jury has indicted President Donald Trump for his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Trump is facing seven charges, including false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice. The investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents is being conducted by special counsel Jack Smith, and a separate grand jury in Florida is overseeing the proceedings, distinct from the one convened in Washington, DC. The inquiry was initiated after the FBI was notified by the National Archives that classified documents were found among those returned by Trump following his departure from office. Here’s the indictment.

President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association Convention in Indianapolis, on April 14, 2023.

I discuss the matter of Trump’s handling of classified documents and compare it to Biden’s handling of classified documents here: Is There an Equivalency Between Biden and Trump’s Handling of Classified Documents? I conclude that there is no case here. In fact, the raid on Trump’s home was an abuse of power. So why is this happening? This is lawfare. Lawfare involves the use of legal actions and strategies as a means of achieving political or ideological objectives. It refers to the exploitation and manipulation of legal systems, processes, or principles to gain a strategic advantage or undermine opponents. Lawfare can take various forms, including lawsuits, investigations, harassing and intimidating opponents, and leveraging legal frameworks to shape public opinion or policy debates. There are a few reasons why the establishment is using lawfare against the President of the United States.

First, the administrative state seeks to retrieve all documents related to Crossfire Hurricane. From July 31, 2016, to May 17, 2017, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a counterintelligence investigation known as Crossfire Hurricane. Its objective was to explore numerous connections between individuals associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian officials and spies. The investigation aimed to determine whether these associates were knowingly or unknowingly coordinating with the Russian government’s interference efforts in the 2016 US presidential election. In reality, Crossfire Hurricane was a conspiracy by the deep state in cahoots with the Democratic Party, aided by legacy and social media companies, to overthrow a duly elected president. Elites suspect Trump may be in possession of documents that expose this plot and they want to documents back. (See The Conspiracy to Overthrow an American President.)

Second, President Trump is the clear front funner in the 2024 presidential election. Because Trump is not a part of the establishment but instead represents the populist-nationalist movement to restore the republic and the principles of democratic-republicanism and liberal freedoms, his reelection is viewed as severely detrimental to the globalist project to dismantle the republican machinery and incorporate the American population into the transnational corporate state system. He must be stopped in order to save and advance the project. Thus we see the same frenzy that sought to overthrow his presidency during 2016-2020 in the present movement. Trump derangement syndrome is very real. But it is not a mental disorder (however mentally disorders those who suffer from it are). It is a project to derail populist-nationalism.

As a reminder, President Donald Trump was impeached twice during his tenure, with the first impeachment occurring in December 2019 and the second in January 2021. Democrats impeached Trump to discredit him and possibly convict him in the Senate, which would bar him from running for president again. They were also concerned during the first impeachment case that he would interfere with the deep state project to instigate a proxy war with Russia via Ukraine. (See History and Sides-Taking in the Russo-Ukrainian War; The US is Not Provoking Russia—And Other Tall Tales; Payton Gendron, the Black Sun, and the Great Replacement Smear; Will WWIII Begin in Eurasia?)

The 2019 impeachment was related to the events surrounding Ukraine and is commonly referred to as the “Ukrainian phone call” or the “Ukrainian scandal.” A whistleblower alleged that President Trump had engaged in improper conduct during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, 2019. The complaint suggested that Trump had solicited foreign interference in the upcoming 2020 US presidential election and had also withheld military aid to Zelensky to force his cooperation. Trump calls it the “perfect phone call.” He calls it that because it was. It’s the president’s job to determine whether high ranking government officials are involved in scheme of international corruption, especially when they bear on matters of national security. Trump was aware that the Biden family was involved in business relations with several foreign countries, including Ukraine and China. Whether Trump understood that the establishment was planning to instigate a proxy war with Russia is unknown, but this likely plays into the scenario.

The second impeachment took place in January 2021 and was related to the events surrounding the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. The impeachment charged Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” The impeachment process began after a violent mob, consisting of Trump supporters, stormed the US Capitol in an ostensive attempt to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College results, which purportedly confirmed Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The charge was irrational in that the president, who was exercising his First Amendment rights, specifically told the audience to be peaceful and law-abiding. His comments were recorded and they were entirely unambiguous. (“A republic, if you can keep it”; “He Summoned a Mob to Washington.” The Selective Application of the First Amendment; A Peaceful Transition of Political Power.)

Justice and reason prevailed and Trump was acquitted of all charges in the Senate. However, if it weren’t for the fact that he had become the heart of the Republican Party, and convicting him would have disillusioned the Republican base, Trump would have likely been convicted. Trump’s popularity puts establishment Republicans in a difficult position. They secretly think like Liz Chaney, who helped lead the January 6 committee farce in the House. But they have to publicly support him because he will be the next president—if the establishment doesn’t throw him in jail.

Finally, Joe Biden is the most corrupt president in American history and the conspiracy to install him as president and keep him in power is vast. I have written quite a lot on this (see Vice-President Biden and His handling of Classified Documents). You should note that Trump’s indictment comes down at the same time House Republicans have intensified their criticism of President Joe Biden and his family following their confidential review of an FBI document the agency has been desperate to keep from them.

After examining the FD-1023 form presented by the FBI within the secure confines of the Capitol Hill SCIF, members of the House Oversight Committee became more confident in their allegations of bribery and corruption. The evidence indicates Biden’s involvement in a bribery scheme with a foreign individual during his time as vice president involving millions of dollars. Emphasizing its credibility and legitimacy, House Republicans have revealed that the informant had been a paid FBI source for multiple years. Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida went as far as to assert that Biden is unequivocally guilty of bribery.

Daring Republicans to come after him, like a killer asking his accusers to produce a body, Biden quipped “Where’s the money?” when asked by a reporter for his response to Rep. Nancy Mace, a member of the House Oversight Committee, who had said earlier in the day that the allegations are “worse than has been reported so far.” Much worse. Keep in mind this is one case. Hunter Biden’s laptop is chockfull of evidence of corruption (see New York Post Drops a Bombshell on the Biden Campaign). The indictment dropped to distract the public from Biden family corruption. See Nancy Mace on the War Room here.

See my latest FAR Podcast concerning the election rigging network. Progressives are waging full spectrum war against the American People.

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Why are so many Antifa also pedophiles? And why do progressives heroize them? Remember when Kyle Rittenhouse shot a pedophile called Joseph Rosenbaum in self-defense and progressives turned Rosenbaum into a hero and made Rittenhouse out to be the bad guy? Tucker Carlson nailed it in his second Twitter program. Progressives are rationalizing pedophilia. What’s up with that?

I will be posting a blog soon showing that both anarchism and queer theory are obsessed with children. Their obsession is single-mindedly sexual. They’re so desperate to talk to children about sex and to sexualize them that they riot when parents intervene. The overlap between anarchism and gender ideology is organic. We might be able to separate these ideologies and practices analytically, but in the concrete it’s the same countermovement. I say countermovement because these people stand against all the progress society has made in safeguarding children.

Why these people are obsessed with children is obvious: it’s a sickness. Why progressives are mainstreaming the sickness is because the ideology operates on the praxis of “transgression.” I will show in the forthcoming blog that transgressive action disrupts social boundaries and rules and disorders collective consciousness, and this effect creates the state of confusion functional to the reorganization of society into a transnational corporate state. Progressives are waging a culture war against normal Americans—and normal Europeans, as well. This is why it was just announced that Biden will create a new position in the Department of Education to combat attempts at “book banning” at the state level. “Book banning” is the Orwellian euphemism for keeping pornographic materials in public schools libraries for the purposes of sexualizing children.

This has been going on a very long time, but it is only recently that a majority of Americans have began to detect that the managed decline of the West is just that: managed. Daniel Patrick Moynihan got a whiff that something was going on and recorded it in his 1993 essay “Defining Deviancy Down,” published in the American Scholar and covered by several news outlets at the time. Moynihan was an American sociologist, politician, and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from New York. In the essay, Moynihan argued that American society had reached a point where it was redefining deviant behavior as normal in order to cope with an increase in social problems and the breakdown of traditional social institutions. He suggested that society had become desensitized to deviant behavior and was lowering its standards and expectations in order to accommodate it.

Moynihan believed that this trend was detrimental to society, as it diminished the sense of moral responsibility and allowed harmful behaviors to persist without appropriate intervention. He argued that it was important for society to reestablish clear standards of behavior and to confront and address deviant behavior rather than simply accepting it as a new norm. This is the argument Tucker takes up in his Twitter video. However, Tucker has a better sense than Moynihan that what is happening here is intentional nor emergent. Matt Walsh is another voice who recognizes that this is part of a project to undermine Western morality.

And now the world is waking up. The above video is from a protest in Canada today where parents are confronting the lobby that is sexualizing children. These protests are happening across America, as well. See my recent blog Southern Poverty Law Center Defames Parents Invested in Safeguarding Children for videos from California and Maryland.

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Andrew Austin

Andrew Austin is on the faculty of Democracy and Justice Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay. He has published numerous articles, essays, and reviews in books, encyclopedia, journals, and newspapers.

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