Tucker Takes A Wrecking Ball To A Foundational Myth Of "Permanent Washington"

“Permanent Washington” is the term Tucker Carlson uses to identify the permanent, unelected bureaucracy that runs America—as opposed to the myth of the American constitutional republic with three co-equal branches of government. The term describes what others have called “The Interagency”. Of course, when Tucker talks about a permanent bureaucracy, he doesn’t mean that all the bureaucrats in these permanent government agencies are permanent bureaucrats—there’s a regular revolving door for the insiders, in and out of agencies, shuffling back and forth between government, universities, think tanks, influential major corporations, financial institutions, NGOs, political staffers for top legislators and their committees. The point is, however, that these busy people constitute the ground troops of our ruling class and are largely outside the control of the president—their nominal boss.

According to Tucker, the last president who seemed determined to do something about that was, ironically, the most popular president in American history. That’s right: Richard Milhous Nixon. Tucker brings Nixon up in the course of a very manageable 12 minutes monology, and in the context of Zhou’s current travails. Just as Tucker say Nixon was gone the moment he told the CIA Director “I know who killed John [Kennedy],” so Tucker also says that Zhou is gone, too. The implication is that, just as the Deep State took out Nixon, so too is the Deep State about to take out Zhou. That was my view from the start, but events have not clarified since this whole Garage Gate (Corvette Gate?) thing went public. I still tend toward the view that so momentous a decision as taking out a POTUS—even one as corrupt and stupid as Zhou—can’t really be an internal party decision. Rationally, and especially in the middle of a world war, there should be bipartisan as well as Interagency involvement. We’ll still have to wait for this to play out, bad as things look for Zhou.

At any rate, I highly recommend this video, and especially from the 6:50 minute mark on, when Tucker gets into the matter of Richard Nixon. That Nixon was evil incarnate, bent on destroying our whole American way of life, is the Orthodox Faith of our current public order. After all, Nixon was not only an anti-Communist, he was even in favor of the president regaining control over the Administrative State. Defending Nixon is simply to place oneself beyond the pale—even conservatives are required to condemn Nixon and bend the knee to the liberal Moloch. But that’s exactly what Tucker doesn’t do, and he cites some interesting facts to suggest that the entire Watergate Hoax was a Deep State conspiracy. As we all know, the end result of Watergate was an unholy alliance of Congress and the Interagency against the Presidency—the President executive agencies went over to the political Dark Side. That was the big shift in our constitutional order. Ranks right up there with the SCOTUS kneecapping the presidency by striking down the Line Item Veto.

Oh, you’re probably wondering how the CIA Director responded to President Nixon when President Nixon said he knew who killed Kennedy. “Really?” “No kidding?” “No way, man!” or maybe even “Oh, shit!”

Nope. None of the above. He said nothing. Stony silence on the tape. Imagine that! Speaks louder than words, doesn’t it?