I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekingana show.

Gonna take another little break from the World War One series,

with Thomas 777, and we concentrate a little bit on a something from my lifetime that I mean it you know this might be one of the first political things I remember my parents talking about

Yeah, I mean I was real little but I think this may have been it but

Watergate Richard Nixon 1973 so what's up? The issue with Watergate, it's there's a historical aspect to it, like a

profoundly historical aspect, as well as a political one. And it's particularly timely today

on grounds of what's underway with Mr. Trump

and what has been underway with him.

And the degree to what Trump really is the error to Mr. Nixon can't be

overstated. People misunderstand when I say that. I'm not saying that Trump

has anything approaching the intellect in Nixon,

or that his significance in historical capacities

is analogous.

But what he, he really, he truly is the heir

to the silent majority coalition,

what remains of it.

And the manner in which the deep state works,

I don't think anybody denies anymore

that the deep state is an actual feature of government.

That's basically a kind of shorthand polemical or colloquial way of talking about, I mean,

you know, Burnham's managerial state.

It shouldn't be controversial with people that it exists, okay?

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