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This is really an excellent analysis. There are a couple of corrective points.
For one thing, contrary to his assertion that the deep state strategic effort "almost worked against Reagan" is wrong--it did work.
The convincing act was that they were able to shoot him and even though they didn't kill him, they sufficiently intimidated him so that the deep state retained control with lead managers in every area like Shultz, Weinberger etc. running operations other than the direct confrontation with Russia where Reagan was able to pursue his agenda.
On tax, spending, domestic policy, and foreign policy other than Russia, they continued to drive. Like Trump, Reagan not only failed to restructure the tax and federal spending systems in favor of Normal Americans, the deep state structured "reforms" more in its interest than in the interest of American citizens.
The second point is the implicit proposition that in the three years he has been in office, Trump has been unable to attack or correct the abusive misconduct of the Deep State representatives in any material way.
Why not?
The real insider answer is the Obama pardons on his exit from the oval office.
It is not clear that any of Trumps representatives have even seen or heard an exact accurate description of the pardons themselves.
If Obama was born outside the United States, no matter which one of the choices for his parentage is accurate, there is no legal theory on which he was eligible to hold the office of President. There is no real evidence available on any record of the location of his place of birth other than his statements in the many published official biographies and on the record of early period campaigns (which constitute legal evidence as statements against interest)--all of those actual evidences are of a birth outside the country.
Pardons by Obama should be aggressively attacked as ineffective because he was not in fact the President who could Constitutionally grant them.
Thanks, David.
Thanks LucyT.