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Woodward Interviews Shallow Throat
The most damaging revelations about this president come not from shadowy bureaucrats but from the people closest to him.
By JOHN F. HARRIS
09/10/2020 04:30 AM EDT
For years, President Donald Trump and his allies have warned about his adversaries in the Deep State. The phrase evokes images of anonymous officials with hidden motives buried deep in the government.
Recent days have made it clearer than ever that the real hazard to Trump is actually the Shallow State.
The people saying mean things about Trump arent lurking in the shadows. They are well-known names whom Trump recruited to work by his side. Their motives arent mysterious. They are obvious: A transactional president encourages transactional behavior in his midst. These sources have shocking stories to tell, but no longer any genuinely surprising ones.
The plot is playing out now in familiar ways. Prominent people typically went to work for Trump thinking he seems like a jerk but, hey, he was elected, after all. So they calculated that maybe hes not so bad and that the compensations in power and status of an important job were worth the trade. They believed the Republic would be better off with their wise counsel helping curb Trumps worst instincts. Once there, they discovered that the president is more self-absorbed and less tethered to public interest than they had previously imagined. Having been lured into the inner circle to enhance their reputations, they fearoften with good reasonthat they are leaving soiled by Trumps splatter.
So they write books, like former Trump lawyer-fixer Michael Cohen. Or they talk to magazine journalists, like the senior military officers who told damaging tales to The Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg or dispatched surrogates to do so. Above all, they sit with Washingtons legendary confessor priest, Bob Woodward, for his new book, Rage.
The entire notion of the Deep State rests on soil tilled by Hollywood, in decades of movies and television shows in the genre of the paranoid thriller. In these conspiracy dramas, the plot tension flows from a slowly building, creepy realization that Things Are Not What They Seem.
Woodward, based on Wednesdays barrage of publicity for next weeks official release of Rage, has once again delivered the goods with plenty of news-driving revelations. But these scoops are like so many in the Trump years: They reveal that things are pretty much Exactly What They Seem.
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/10/trump-war-shallow-state-411377
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Woodward Interviews Shallow Throat (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2020
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Hekate
(90,714 posts)1. Someone here last night called him (Trump that is) Deep Colon
KnR
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)2. K & R for "Shallow Throat." N/T