I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekinejana show.

I'm going to take another little break from the World War,

from the World War I series with Thomas 777,

and we concentrate a little bit on a something from my lifetime that,

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, 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 which Trump really

is the error to Mr.ixon can't be overstated people

misunderstand me when i say that i'm not saying that trump is has anything approaching the

intellect and nixon or that his significance in historical capacities is 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, 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 to people that it exists.

Okay. But institutions at scale, particularly institutions and government,

they behave in predictable ways, okay? And the forces are raiding against Mr. Trump, as it were, are basically identical, all right? And the reasons for his

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