I am trying to decide if the Administration understood the deep state problem before they got attacked by it. It was pretty obvious for all to see in hindsight.

So, if they had advance knowledge, what strategy might they undertake ?
Fire them all? Not possible and very very bad optics.
Arrest the perps? Needed the Justice Dept fully staffed with loyalists.
It is possible they might have embarked on a very deliberate anti media campaign to blunt the delivery tool of the deep state- the NYT, CNN and so forth. If you spent December positioning the media as untrustworthy, lying jerks and the Dems as … Continue reading →