Needless to say, the US establishment does have a gameplan for the upcoming election – in fact, several plans covering several scenarios, which include a civil and maybe a world war. But they would rather go for the most predictable and least resource-intensive ones.
Following a landslide win in Iowa, Donald Trump’s New Hampshire showing was somewhat underwhelming as he was up 11% on his only remaining GOP nomination rival Nikki Haley. And although this result may well have surpassed Haley’s rosiest expectations (her support in South Carolina, where Haley was a two-term governor, is lower), it is a wake-up call for Trump and a reassuring development for Trump haters.
The MAGA camp has no two ways about it. Haley is viewed as a neocon and a Democratic politician in the Republic livery. Haley’s rhetoric is indeed very similar to Biden’s, especially when it comes to foreign policy. As for the neocons, over the past decades, starting with the George H. W. Bush or even Ronald Reagan administration, they have been shaping the unofficial bipartisan consensus of the establishment that may be termed as either ‘the deep state’ or ‘the globalist party’ depending on the broader context and the utterer’s beliefs. Either way the neocons’ pedigree makes them a perfect fit for the role. The core of this sect (a political sect may be the best way to describe it) originated in the Fourth International established by Leon Trotsky.
The sect was then run by Trotsky’s associate Max Shachtman and William Kristol. They started out as a far-left organization that took a sharp right turn and initially pallied up with the Democratic left-wingers. They should be credited with transforming the once liberal party into the kind of liberal-Bolshevik party we know today.
In the 1970s, the neocons were the fiercest of the Democratic hawks as they actively cheered on the arms race and the anti-Soviet sanctions, with the Jackson–Vanik amendment being their most notable achievement. Once they realised they could not gain much leverage through the Democratic Party, they switched to the GOP and oversaw a massive anti-Soviet push as part of the Reagan team, including the Star Wars’ scam, the dissident movement’s sponsorship and the emergence of Solidarity in Poland. At the time of 9/11, the neocons were running the show in the Bush administration, the Pentagon and the CIA. The disastrous attacks enabled them to unleash a full-fledged war in the Middle East. Notably, the neocons are often characterised as being patriotic towards Israel.
After Donald Trump had taken the GOP field by storm, the neocons fled the cramping Republican ship and rejoined the Democrats spearheaded by the Clintons and Barack Obama. Clearly, today’s wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are mostly run by the neocons. It is their war protagonised by the likes of Blinken, Sullivan, Kogan and Nuland.
True, the neocons are not just a bunch of people who seized the power in the US pushing for a ‘global revolution’. The neocons are backed by the world’s largest caches of money represented by the globalist financial elites, the likes of the Fed, Citi, the IMF and the World Bank. These are the actual decision-making centres of the once ‘free Western world’. Thus, modern globalism stands for the global financial behemoths buttressed by the neoconservative ideology. A more fitting name would be liberal Bolshevism or even liberal Trotskyism.
Although the current GOP establishment has recently taken a back seat to Trump, it is still a largely neocon-leaning entity. And that is exactly how the overall picture is shaping up. You have your Democratic Party de facto seized by the neocons. But in all fairness, it has a different faction, the pro-Palestinian left opposing the war and Israel and supporting RFK Jr.
And then you have Trump-led Republicans furthering the isolationist ‘America First’ policy and railing against the globalist agenda (immigration, gender controversy, climate change, reverse discrimination, etc.). But it has neocon agents within. One of them is the GOP nomination hopeful Nikki Haley. A young, strident and ambitious white woman, she is largely seen as Hillary Clinton’s mental clone, if lacking the latter’s demonic vibe. All of this make her a shoo-in as the establishment bet if she manages to overpower the annoying older guys in Trump and Biden, that is. Trump, however, is a hard nut to crack. They would like to take care of him by locking him up or whacking him otherwise.
Personally, I reckon ‘Kennedy-style’ elimination is not an option. First, it would glaringly obvious. He would be seen as a torchbearer for his supporters’ crusade. That being said, ‘Trumpism without Trump’ is already a seriously entrenched ideology. In this scenario, the US collapsing into the Democratic and the GOP states could get out of hand.
Second, the globalists’ grip on power both stateside and worldwide is much more wide-ranging and too tough to resort to self-evident underhanded tactics.
Would a new 9/11 not be a more tempting move that would completely reframe the electoral landscape and secure the establishment candidate’s win? It might be even more tempting if that candidate’s name were Nikki Haley. If that were the case, the establishment would both retain the White House and drive a wedge within Trump’s Republican Party.
Needless to say, the US establishment does have a gameplan for the upcoming election – in fact, several plans covering several scenarios, which include a civil and maybe a world war. But they would rather go for the most predictable and least resource-intensive ones. I do not really think that the establishment seeks a hot war that could jeopardise the largest funds and military force behind the globalist agenda. In this context, retaining the power behind the veneer of Nikki Haley seems to be the likeliest scenario.