At the national level, it’s unclear who is serving whom.
Do the managers of The New York Times actually still believe the Russia Collusion story they were awarded a Pulitzer for, or their 1619 Project Woke-rewrite of US history?
Or their mulish defense of the Covid vaccines. Or their florid esteem for the leadership of “Joe Biden.” Or are they simply ruled by blind Trump derangement?
(Or do they receive instructions from nefarious others about how to report and opine on things?)
The so-called deep state is a set of interested parties not directly controlled by billionaires but with agendas of their own. For instance, the millions of bureaucrats at every level — federal, state, and local — who receive comfortable salaries and first-rate benefits (pensions, medical insurance), in many cases for doing little-to-nothing in their offices all day every day (or else obstructing Americans not in government from making a living).
Trump is not letting anyone forget what transpired in 2020, no matter how much Democrats and some Republicans wish he would move on. Despite the fact that his presidential powers do not extend to issuing pardons at the state level, Trump's bully pulpit has served to amplify Peters' case nationally, thus keeping the 2020 election front-of-mind. Peters is the sole election official who has been imprisoned on these types of charges in what is increasingly being revealed as a flawed election. Colorado officials want to bury Peters and their role in her imprisonment under the jail. Whether this is just Trump being troller-in-chief or whether this action will have actual teeth, Colorado electeds are getting more attention than they want. How do we know this? Because everyone from the governor to the attorney general to their U.S. senator is losing their stuff and rushing to defend Peters' prosecution and sentencing.
California’s intrusive laws are far too numerous to catalog. They are selectively enforced, for the simple reason that the quantity of violations in this supposedly enlightened state numbers in the hundreds of millions. And if you have a business open to the public? Then you may expect the intrusive government regulations to multiply by orders of magnitude. No wonder so many people are leaving, heartbroken that they and their children live in a place where the government is doing everything it can to drive them out. A government that has made the state they love a state they can’t stand to live in anymore.
California’s policymakers aren’t technically criminals—or at least not all of them are. But what they’re doing to the people who live here is a crime. A crime that is split into so many thousands of petty offenses that it is sometimes hard for us to realize how truly monstrous it has become.
