BY JEFF REYNOLDS | PJ Media
FILE - In this March 13,
2019, photo, billionaire investor and Democratic activist Tom Steyer speaks
during a "Need to Impeach" town hall event in Agawam, Mass. (AP
Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Impeaching Donald Trump has
captured the headlines, and promises to keep everyone glued to cable television
through Election Day 2020.
What if I told you that was
the plan all along?
Leftist activists, the
Democratic National Committee, their billionaire benefactors, and
representatives of some of the world’s largest charitable foundations came
together in the days following Donald Trump’s election. At a meeting
deliberately planned for Inauguration Day 2017, they finalized the resistance.
They called the resulting
report The Plan To Kick Donald Trump’s Ass.
This plan, first reported by
the Washington Free Beacon in 2017, included working
directly with social media giants to access and manipulate their data, planting
news stories in the mainstream media critical of President Trump, mounting
campaigns against his policies, framing everything he does through a racial
lens, and normalizing violence in the streets as a form of resistance.
Their goal? To box Donald
Trump in and ensure that he would never be “normalized” in American culture.
The amount of money
dedicated to these efforts is staggering. Tracing the sources of that dark
money has proven elusive.
Donald Trump served as a
flashpoint, but his election also revealed a larger, longer-reaching goal of
the money interests on the left. Whittaker Chambers once wrote, “In the United
States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The
upper class are Communists.”
Indeed, it is that upper
class that really controls most of the leftist protest movements in America,
while pretending that such movements are bottom-up and grassroots. The puppet
masters of leftist campaigns conceal themselves by design, while granting the
entire progressive movement the appearance of an organic, grassroots uprising
devoid of Wall Street and corporate interests. The romantic notion of a
people-led, voice-of-the-little-guy movement in the nostalgic image of the
protests of the 1960s belies the true inner workings. They make false claims of
the will of the people while hiding their actions to influence policy from the
public.
The most prolific donors to
leftist causes – the George Soroses, the Tom Steyers, the Michael Bloombergs –
hold significant sway over these movements. As an example, Tom Steyer succeeded
in getting an extensive and radical environmental statement into the platform
of the Democratic National Committee, after his NexGen Climate Solutions
SuperPAC made a $1 million donation to help pay for the 2016 convention. Steyer
is also the loudest voice in favor of impeachment, making large donations to
the campaign accounts of the most pro-impeachment Democratic lawmakers.
The money from billionaires
pales in comparison, however, to the money from the largest non-profits on
earth. While Tom Steyer, for example, gave $73 million to Democratic causes and
candidates in 2018 (according to OpenSecrets.org), non-profit foundations dwarf
this amount. One example is the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which
sits on somewhere in the neighborhood of $9 billion in assets and annually
makes grants on the order of half-a-billion to environmental organizations.
That’s just one foundation.
There are dozens more, granting hundreds of millions more every year, funding
the most radical organizations of the professional left in America.
Donald Trump serves as the
target of the resistance, but he is merely a symptom. Those who wish to
fundamentally transform America’s constitutional republic use him as the
boogeyman, exploiting the raw emotions of voters. This results in things like
antifa taking over the streets in coastal cities, conservative speakers getting
banned on college campuses, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi bowing to the
ever-more-radical base in her own party and agreeing to proceed with
impeachment, against her own political survival instincts.
So when you hear Nancy
Pelosi state that things have changed, and impeachment is now required,
understand that a vast apparatus has been plotting for years to make it happen.
One is reminded of William Randolph Hearst in 1897 who, in his zeal to sell
more newspapers, published incendiary articles about Cuban freedom fighters
resisting Spanish rule. When his writers and illustrators reported that no
civil war was materializing, Hearst replied, “You furnish the images, I’ll
furnish the war.” Three weeks later, the U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana
Harbor. Hearst eagerly pounced on the story, and the rest is history.
Who is furnishing today’s
history?
Jeff Reynolds is the author
of the book, Behind the Curtain: Inside the Network of Progressive
Billionaires and Their Campaign to Undermine Democracy. You can follow
Jeff on Twitter @ChargerJeff.
