The Real Deep State
How The Right-Wing Captured America
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The right-wing's favorite boogeyman is the so-called "deep state"—a shadowy cabal of unelected bureaucrats, globalists, and elites supposedly working to undermine democracy from behind the scenes. They scream about government control, whisper conspiracies about secret forces pulling the strings, and insist that the real power in America is hidden within the permanent bureaucracy.
But what if I told you they were half right? That there is a deep state in America—but it's not some liberal government conspiracy. It’s the right-wing power structure itself—a network of think tanks, lobbying groups, corporate billionaires, and extremist legal activists who have spent the last fifty years reshaping the country in their image.
📢 This is a long read, but it might be the most important article I’ve written.
The goal isn’t for you to memorize everything in here—it’s to build an unshakable foundation for the claim that a real deep state does exist. But unlike the fictional one Fox News screams about, it’s the very force that controls Fox News—along with almost every facet of U.S. politics today.
From the corporate capture of the Supreme Court to trickle-down economics, and the culture war issues manufactured to divide and control us, this machine has been shaping America for decades. It’s time to expose it—and weaponize that truth against them.
This is not a conspiracy theory. It’s a documented, deliberate campaign—one that started in the 1970s with the Lewis Powell Memo, took shape through organizations like the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and ALEC, and culminated in the corporate capture of the Supreme Court and the coordinated assault on democracy, workers’ rights, and social progress.
The real “deep state” isn’t hiding. It’s right in front of us, working through corporate lobbyists, dark-money-funded legal organizations, and a Supreme Court handpicked by billionaires. And it's time we name it for what it is: a corporate-theocratic alliance bent on dismantling democracy and imposing minority rule.
The Architects of the Right-Wing Deep State
The rise of the right-wing deep state wasn’t spontaneous—it was designed. A handful of men, over the span of decades, laid the groundwork for the authoritarian, corporate-theocratic machine we see today. These figures weren’t just influential thinkers or strategists; they were engineers of a movement that systematically dismantled democracy and reshaped America in their image.
Here’s who they are and why they matter.
Lewis Powell: The Blueprint for Corporate Rule
“Business must learn the lesson . . . that political power is necessary; that such power must be assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination.”
—Lewis Powell, The Powell Memo (1971)
Lewis Powell was not a politician, a media mogul, or a billionaire activist—he was a corporate lawyer and later a Supreme Court Justice. But more than any other figure, Powell laid the intellectual foundation for the corporate takeover of American democracy. His 1971 Confidential Memorandum: Attack on the American Free Enterprise System—now known simply as The Powell Memo—was the spark that ignited the right-wing deep state.
The Powell Memo: A Call to Arms for Corporate America
At the time Powell wrote his memo, corporate leaders were panicked. The Civil Rights Movement had toppled segregation, labor unions were strong, environmental regulations were expanding, and public confidence in big business was at an all-time low. In Powell’s view, capitalism itself was under threat—not by communists, but by the rising tide of progressive activism and government regulation.
His solution? Corporate America needed to go on the offensive.
The Powell Memo was a direct call for big business to stop playing defense and start reshaping American society in its favor. Powell urged corporate leaders to:
✔ Build an ideological infrastructure to defend capitalism and crush progressive policies.
✔ Control the courts by installing pro-corporate judges.
✔ Capture academia by funding right-wing think tanks and university programs.
✔ Dominate the media to shift public opinion in favor of big business.
✔ Influence politics by flooding elections with corporate money.
Powell’s Lasting Impact
Though Powell himself did not execute the plan, his memo became the playbook for the right-wing deep state. Every major institution that has eroded democracy in the past 50 years—the Heritage Foundation, ALEC, the Federalist Society, and the corporate capture of the Supreme Court—traces its origins to Powell’s strategy.
Business Interests Became Political – Powell’s memo convinced corporate leaders that accumulating political power was just as important as generating profits. CEOs, trade groups, and billionaires started pouring money into think tanks and lobbying organizations that would serve as their political weapons.
Right-Wing Think Tanks Took Over Policy – The Heritage Foundation (founded in 1973) and later ALEC became legislative factories, churning out corporate-friendly laws that Republicans would rubber-stamp into policy.
The Courts Were Captured – Powell personally embodied this shift when Nixon nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1971. He would go on to write the opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978), a case that laid the groundwork for Citizens United and the flood of corporate money into politics.
Corporate Media Became a Propaganda Arm – Powell warned that media and academia were too “anti-business.” In response, billionaires and corporations began funding right-wing media outlets, university programs, and conservative scholars to create an endless pipeline of pro-corporate propaganda.
Without the Powell Memo, the corporate deep state would never have become as powerful as it is today. Powell didn’t just predict the rise of corporate rule—he designed it.
Paul Weyrich: The Godfather of the Right-Wing Takeover
"I don't want everybody to vote… As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."
—Paul Weyrich, 1980
If there’s one person responsible for turning the conservative movement into an organized, ruthless, and strategic force, it’s Paul Weyrich.
A co-founder of the Heritage Foundation (1973) and the Moral Majority (1979), Weyrich understood that conservatives couldn’t win by appealing to broad public support. Instead, they needed to build institutions, capture key political levers, and play the long game.
Weyrich’s Lasting Impact:
Voter Suppression: Weyrich openly admitted that conservatives win when fewer people vote. He helped Republicans develop voter suppression tactics that continue to this day.
The Religious Right: He weaponized evangelical Christianity as a political tool, making abortion and "family values" core Republican issues—not because conservatives cared about them, but because they needed a single-issue voting bloc.
Right-Wing Institutions: Weyrich built the Heritage Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and other think tanks that churned out policy, legislation, and talking points for Republican lawmakers.
Every piece of the modern right-wing political machine—from gerrymandering, dark money, the Federalist Society’s judicial coup, to Christian nationalism—can trace its roots back to Paul Weyrich’s vision.
Milton Friedman: The Prophet of Corporate Rule
"Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable."
—Milton Friedman
The right-wing war on government, unions, and economic equality didn’t emerge from nowhere. It was Milton Friedman, the godfather of neoliberalism, who sold the idea that unregulated capitalism wasn’t just efficient, but morally good.
A Chicago School economist, Friedman’s ideas were simple:
Government is the enemy
Corporations should rule society
Privatization solves everything
The free market should decide all policy, no matter the human cost
Friedman’s Lasting Impact:
Reaganomics: His trickle-down economics theory led to massive tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation that gutted workers’ rights.
Corporate Power: He pushed for the idea that corporations only exist to generate profits for shareholders, leading to mass layoffs, union busting, and wealth consolidation.
The Shock Doctrine: He advised right-wing dictators like Pinochet in Chile, showing how economic crises could be used to destroy social safety nets and privatize entire economies—a strategy Republicans have used in the U.S. for decades.
Without Milton Friedman, there’s no Reaganomics, no Wall Street takeover, no corporate deep state controlling our democracy.
Jerry Falwell & Ralph Reed: The Theocrats Who Built Christian Nationalism
"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them."
—Jerry Falwell, 1979
Before the 1970s, evangelicals weren’t political. They were suspicious of government, opposed to getting involved in elections, and didn’t even care about abortion. That changed because of Jerry Falwell and Ralph Reed.
Jerry Falwell: The Megachurch Mogul
Founded the Moral Majority (1979) to fuse Christianity with right-wing politics.
Helped Republicans capture white evangelicals, turning them into a reliable voting bloc.
Created the abortion hoax: Before 1979, evangelicals were mostly neutral on abortion. Falwell weaponized it—not because he cared about fetuses, but because he needed a mobilizing issue to keep evangelicals voting Republican.
Built a fundraising empire, funneling millions from churches into right-wing politics.
Ralph Reed: The Political Operative
The strategist behind the Christian Coalition, which took Falwell’s Moral Majority and turned it into a political machine.
Helped integrate Christian nationalism into the GOP, ensuring that every Republican leader must answer to the religious right.
Pioneered data-driven evangelical voter turnout operations, ensuring that churches became Republican political operations.
The Lasting Impact of Falwell & Reed:
Christian Nationalism: The belief that America is a Christian nation and must be governed by biblical law.
Gutting Separation of Church & State: They made religious extremists dominant in courts, schools, and politics.
Weaponizing Abortion & LGBTQ+ Issues: They created moral panic issues to distract voters from economic inequality.
Without Falwell and Reed, there’s no Trump, no Dobbs decision, no Supreme Court packed with religious extremists.
Leonard Leo: The Man Who Stacked the Supreme Court
"It is a pleasure to stand before 1,500 of the most little known and elusive of that secret society or conspiracy we call the Federalist Society."
—Leonard Leo
If you want to understand why the Supreme Court is now an unaccountable right-wing super-legislature, look no further than Leonard Leo.
Leo built the modern Federalist Society, the dark-money operation that handpicks judges and justices to ensure that corporate power and Christian nationalism always win in court.
Leonard Leo’s Lasting Impact:
Handpicked at least FIVE Supreme Court justices, including:
John Roberts
Samuel Alito
Neil Gorsuch
Brett Kavanaugh
Amy Coney Barrett
Oversaw the gutting of Roe v. Wade.
Took hundreds of millions in dark money to place far-right judges in lower courts, ensuring right-wing rulings for generations.
Leo is the most powerful unelected figure in America, controlling the judiciary without ever facing voters.
Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes & Rush Limbaugh: The Propagandists Who Warped Reality
"People don’t want to be informed. They want to feel informed."
—Roger Ailes
If Paul Weyrich built the machine, Milton Friedman justified the greed, Falwell & Reed provided the foot soldiers, and Leonard Leo captured the courts, then Murdoch, Ailes, and Limbaugh made sure the public never figured out what was happening.
Together, they engineered a right-wing media empire that detached millions of Americans from reality, bombarding them with fear, grievance, and manufactured outrage. They transformed conservatism from a political ideology into a cult of paranoia, resentment, and blind loyalty to power.
Rupert Murdoch: The Media Mogul Who Weaponized Disinformation
"I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News."
—Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch didn’t just build a media empire—he built an alternate universe, where billionaires were the underdogs, white men were the oppressed, and any challenge to corporate power was “Marxism.” His media network became the largest right-wing propaganda operation in history, fueling climate denial, white nationalism, election fraud conspiracies, and anti-democratic authoritarianism.
Murdoch’s Lasting Impact:
Fox News as a 24/7 Propaganda Machine: He launched Fox News (1996) under the guise of "fair and balanced" journalism, when in reality, it was a weaponized political operation designed to manipulate public perception.
Mainstreaming Conspiracies: Murdoch’s media empire flooded the public with misinformation, from climate change denial to anti-vaccine hysteria, ensuring that fact-based reality was always under attack.
Global Disinformation Network: Murdoch’s influence wasn’t just in the U.S.—his media empire spread far-right extremism across the UK, Australia, and beyond, fueling xenophobia, anti-immigrant hysteria, and attacks on democracy worldwide.
Without Rupert Murdoch, there’s no Fox News, no Tucker Carlson, no right-wing disinformation ecosystem keeping millions trapped in a parallel reality.
Roger Ailes: The Mastermind Who Turned News into Right-Wing Propaganda
Murdoch funded Fox News, but Ailes made it a psychological weapon. A Nixon-era media strategist, Ailes understood that fear and outrage were more effective than truth. Under his leadership, Fox News became a daily outrage machine, conditioning its audience to see every political issue as an existential war against their way of life.
Ailes’ Lasting Impact:
Turning the News Into a GOP Super PAC: Fox News didn’t just report the news—it created it. Ailes dictated GOP talking points, ensuring that Republican politicians, conservative media, and right-wing donors operated in total coordination.
Weaponizing Fear and Victimhood: Ailes knew that fear sells—so Fox permanently framed white conservatives as victims, bombarding them with manufactured culture wars over race, immigration, and “wokeness.”
Polarizing America: Before Fox News, political disagreement didn’t mean living in separate realities. Under Ailes, the network deliberately radicalized its audience, ensuring that fact-based journalism could never penetrate the conservative bubble.
Without Roger Ailes, Fox News is just another network. With him, it became a cult indoctrination machine.
Rush Limbaugh: The Shock Jock Who Taught Conservatives to Hate
"Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."
—Rush Limbaugh
Before Fox News, before Facebook algorithms, Rush Limbaugh was the original outrage merchant. He perfected the formula of modern right-wing media:
Find an enemy (liberals, women, Black people, LGBTQ+ communities, immigrants).
Mock, dehumanize, and vilify them relentlessly.
Convince listeners they are under siege and that rage is the only answer.
His radio empire made hate mainstream, training an entire generation of conservatives to view cruelty, mockery, and bigotry as political virtues.
Limbaugh’s Lasting Impact:
Turning Conservative Politics into Performance Hate: Limbaugh wasn’t just racist, sexist, and homophobic—he made it cool to be those things. He pioneered the politics of bullying, where cruelty wasn’t a side effect—it was the point.
Training a Generation of Right-Wing Media Figures: Without Limbaugh, there’s no Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, or Alex Jones—every right-wing media grifter learned from him.
Shifting the GOP from Policy to Culture Wars: Limbaugh made grievance politics the GOP’s core strategy—not economic policy, not governance, just owning the libs.
Without Limbaugh, there’s no Trump, no MAGA, no conservative media empire built on rage and resentment.
The Propaganda Machine That Keeps the Right-Wing Deep State in Power
Murdoch, Ailes, and Limbaugh didn’t create conservative ideology—they created the world in which it could thrive without challenge.
Before them, Republicans had to win debates. After them, Republicans just had to control the media.
They created a disinformation ecosystem so powerful that conservatives no longer needed facts—just narratives.
Together, they ensured that millions of Americans would never again trust science, journalism, or democracy itself.
Their Legacy:
Fox News as a permanent right-wing propaganda outlet.
Conservatives living in an alternate media reality, unable to accept truth or facts.
The normalization of hate, cruelty, and authoritarianism in right-wing politics.
A voter base trained to reject democracy in favor of fear-driven tribalism.
Murdoch, Ailes, and Limbaugh didn’t just inform conservatives—they radicalized them.
The Right-Wing Deep State: A Fully Integrated System of Power
Now we see how all the pieces fit together:
Lewis Powell designed the blueprint (The Powell Memo)
Paul Weyrich built the machine (think tanks, policy networks, election strategy).
Milton Friedman justified the greed (neoliberalism, corporate rule, wealth inequality).
Jerry Falwell & Ralph Reed provided the foot soldiers (Christian nationalism, abortion panic, theocratic control).
Leonard Leo captured the courts (the Federalist Society, judicial takeovers, Supreme Court control).
Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes & Rush Limbaugh controlled the narrative (media manipulation, disinformation, propaganda).
They didn’t work alone. They worked together. Did every single one of them explicitly coordinate with one another? That is unclear and unlikely. What is clear however, is that they have each recognized and played their part.
Each one played a critical role in turning America into an oligarchic theocracy, where billionaires, religious extremists, and corrupt judges hold power, and the people are kept divided, fearful, and angry.
This isn’t just history. This is now.
The Institutions That Enforce Right-Wing Rule
The architects of the right-wing deep state built the blueprint. The institutions they created turned it into a fully operational machine.
The conservative takeover of America wasn’t just about ideology—it was about infrastructure. Think tanks, lobbying groups, legal networks, and media empires were methodically built over decades to control policy, law, and public perception.
These institutions don’t answer to voters, yet they dictate legislation, judicial rulings, and government priorities. They ensure that no matter who is in office, the real power remains in corporate boardrooms, billionaire-funded foundations, and far-right legal networks.
This is how the right-wing deep state enforces its power:
The Heritage Foundation: The Right’s Policy Factory
Founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich and corporate backers, the Heritage Foundation is the most influential right-wing think tank in America. It doesn’t just influence policy—it writes it.
From Reaganomics to Trump’s tax cuts, from voter suppression laws to anti-LGBTQ+ policies, Heritage is the assembly line for conservative legislation.
Heritage’s Lasting Impact:
The Reagan Revolution: Heritage dictated Reagan’s budget cuts, deregulation policies, and tax slashes for the wealthy, shaping the neoliberal order that still dominates today.
Judicial Takeover: In 1981, Heritage advised Reagan on stacking the courts with hard-right ideologues—a blueprint later used by Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society.
Project 2025: Heritage’s current plan for a second Trump presidency—an authoritarian roadmap that includes:
Purging civil servants who won’t obey Trump.
Expanding presidential power to bypass Congress.
Destroying the DOJ’s independence to shield Republicans from prosecution.
A Christian nationalist agenda to replace secular governance.
Without the Heritage Foundation, there’s no Reaganomics, no judicial coup, no playbook for authoritarian rule.
ALEC: The Secret Hand Behind Republican Legislation
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is where corporate lobbyists and Republican lawmakers meet in secret to draft legislation.
Unlike Heritage, which creates policy ideas, ALEC literally writes the bills that get introduced in state legislatures across the country. It is corporate rule in its purest form—unelected billionaires crafting laws behind closed doors.
ALEC’s Lasting Impact:
Voter Suppression: ALEC wrote the blueprint for voter ID laws, felony disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering laws that suppress Democratic votes.
Stand Your Ground Laws: After Trayvon Martin’s murder, ALEC’s gun lobbyists pushed laws that let killers like George Zimmerman walk free.
Anti-Union Legislation: ALEC writes the bills that strip public-sector workers of bargaining power—gutting unions and keeping wages low.
Climate Denial: ALEC funnels fossil fuel money into blocking environmental regulations and promoting anti-climate science policies.
Without ALEC, Republicans would still have to write their own bills. Now, corporations do it for them.
The Federalist Society: The Right-Wing Judiciary Factory
The Federalist Society is the pipeline that funnels far-right judges into the courts.
Founded in 1982 by conservative legal activists, it trains, grooms, and places extremist judges in positions of power. Leonard Leo, its leader, turned it into the most powerful legal cartel in American history.
The Federalist Society’s Lasting Impact:
Handpicking Supreme Court Justices: The group selected, vetted, and confirmed Justices Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett—cementing a 6-3 far-right majority.
Overturning Roe v. Wade: The Dobbs decision, which gutted abortion rights, was engineered by Federalist Society judges.
Destroying Voting Rights: Their justices gutted the Voting Rights Act, making voter suppression laws easier to pass.
Shielding Corruption: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, both Federalist Society judges, were caught taking bribes from billionaires—yet remain untouchable.
Without the Federalist Society, the judiciary might still be accountable to democracy. Instead, it’s a tool for authoritarian rule.
The Evangelical Church: The Right’s Theocratic Army
"What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ."
—Ralph Reed, Christian Coalition
The evangelical church is not just a religious movement—it is a political institution.
The Moral Majority, Christian Coalition, and megachurch networks function as an extension of the Republican Party, directing millions of voters based on fabricated moral crises.
The Evangelical Church’s Lasting Impact:
Voter Mobilization: Evangelicals form the largest and most loyal GOP voting bloc, mobilized through church sermons, religious radio, and conservative pastors.
Weaponizing Abortion & LGBTQ+ Issues: By framing abortion, same-sex marriage, and trans rights as existential moral battles, they’ve distracted voters from economic policies that hurt them.
Christian Nationalism: Evangelical leaders preach that America was founded as a Christian nation and must be governed by biblical law—undermining the separation of church and state.
Funding the Far Right: Evangelical organizations funnel billions of tax-exempt dollars into Republican campaigns and conservative media, making them a political superpower.
Without the evangelical church, there is no right-wing culture war, no Christian nationalism, and no foot soldiers for the Republican Party.
Dark Money Networks: The Invisible Billionaire Overlords
None of this would be possible without billionaire funding.
Through dark money networks, right-wing billionaires launder billions of dollars into politics—buying elections, bribing judges, and creating laws in their favor.
How Dark Money Runs the Right-Wing Deep State:
The Koch Network: Funded Heritage, ALEC, and the Federalist Society, ensuring every Republican policy benefits billionaires.
Leonard Leo’s $1.6 Billion Fund: A bribery slush fund used to stack the courts with right-wing judges.
The Bradley Foundation: A key funder of voter suppression laws, think tanks, and media disinformation campaigns.
Super PACs & Shell Organizations: Billionaires funnel unlimited money into attack ads, fake news, and political hit jobs—all without accountability.
Without dark money, the right-wing deep state wouldn’t exist. Billionaires made sure they own the system.
A System Designed for Permanent Right-Wing Rule
These institutions weren’t created to win debates. They were created to make debate irrelevant.
Heritage writes the policies.
ALEC turns them into laws.
The Federalist Society ensures courts uphold them.
Evangelicals provide the foot soldiers.
Fox and Sinclair sell them to the public.
Dark money billionaires fund the entire operation.
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The Right-Wing Reality Machine: Controlling Perception, Manufacturing Consent
Right-wing dominance isn’t just about courts and legislation—it requires total control of information.
Rush Limbaugh pioneered the formula of rage-based right-wing propaganda, but Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, the social media ecosystem, and microbloggers perfected it.
Limbaugh radicalized conservatives through AM radio, training them to reject facts, mock the oppressed, and see every issue as an existential war.
Fox News took that model national, using television, social media, and online platforms to amplify those messages to millions.
Sinclair Broadcasting took it local, ensuring that even small-town news stations became vehicles for right-wing disinformation.
Social media influencers and pseudo-independent networks now customize right-wing propaganda to reach every demographic, disguising their agenda behind different aesthetics, formats, and rhetorical styles.
Microbloggers flood platforms like X (Twitter) with real-time propaganda, manufacturing outrage, flooding feeds with misinformation, and setting the daily talking points for the broader ecosystem.
Together, these forces transformed conservatism from a political movement into a cult of paranoia, resentment, and blind loyalty to power.
Fox News and the Rise of the Extreme Propaganda Networks
Fox News isn’t a news outlet—it’s a political weapon. Launched in 1996 by Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, Fox was designed from the start to be the media arm of the Republican Party.
For decades, Fox was the undisputed king of right-wing media, dictating conservative narratives, shielding Republican corruption, and ensuring that millions of Americans remained trapped in an alternate reality.
But in recent years, new challengers have emerged—OANN (One America News Network) and Newsmax—pushing Fox even further to the extreme. These networks feed off the most radical factions of the right, serving as an even more unhinged alternative to Fox, ensuring that no lie is too outrageous, no conspiracy too absurd, no rhetoric too dangerous.
Fox’s Lasting Impact:
The Trump Cult: Fox News convinced millions that Trump was infallible, making it impossible for conservatives to question his crimes.
Election Denialism: Fox spread the "Big Lie" about voter fraud, fueling the January 6 insurrection and paving the way for permanent election sabotage.
COVID-19 Disinformation: Fox anchors pushed anti-mask and anti-vaccine hysteria, ridiculed scientists, and spread deadly conspiracy theories—resulting in hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths.
Normalizing Fascism: Fox mainstreamed white nationalist talking points, promoting replacement theory, anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, and fear-based culture wars—ensuring the radical right now controls the GOP.
Defending Corporate Power: While distracting viewers with culture war outrage, Fox quietly protects billionaires, big business, and Wall Street interests, ensuring that working-class conservatives never question who’s really rigging the system against them.
OANN and Newsmax: The New Extremes of Right-Wing Media
After the 2020 election, Fox faced backlash from its own audience for failing to go far enough in pushing Trump's election fraud lies. Sensing an opportunity, OANN and Newsmax seized the moment—positioning themselves as Fox’s even more extreme alternatives.
Both networks embrace unfiltered conspiracy theories, far-right extremism, and outright propaganda, rejecting even the slightest pretense of journalistic integrity.
OANN (One America News Network):
Amplified QAnon conspiracies, "Big Lie" election fraud claims, and Trump’s most extreme rhetoric.
Became a direct mouthpiece for Trump, even airing speeches that Fox refused to broadcast.
Pushed pro-Putin propaganda and Russian disinformation, going so far that it was removed from DirecTV for spreading too much misinformation.
Newsmax:
Positioned itself as the home for conservatives who believed Fox had "betrayed" Trump.
Promoted election fraud lies with even less restraint than Fox, leading to massive defamation lawsuits.
Became a go-to outlet for disgraced Trump allies like Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, and Sidney Powell to spread unchecked propaganda.
The Radicalization Spiral
The rise of OANN and Newsmax has forced Fox even further right.
Instead of pushing back against these extremists, Fox embraced their radical messaging to avoid losing viewers.
Now, Fox constantly competes with these networks to be the most extreme, the most outrageous, the most unhinged.
The result? A right-wing media ecosystem where the Overton window keeps shifting toward fascism—with no limit on how extreme conservative narratives can become.
Fox created the propaganda machine, but now it’s being outflanked by the monsters it helped create.
Sinclair Broadcasting: The Local Disinformation Machine
While Fox operates at the national level, Sinclair infiltrates local communities.
Sinclair Broadcasting isn’t just another news outlet—it’s a right-wing propaganda syndicate disguised as local journalism.
Sinclair owns or operates nearly 200 local TV stations, reaching 40% of American households. This means that in many areas, people have no alternative to right-wing propaganda on their local news.
Sinclair’s Lasting Impact:
Coordinated Right-Wing Messaging: Sinclair forces all its stations to air corporate-scripted right-wing editorials, even in blue states.
Election Interference: Sinclair stations aired segments defending Trump’s corruption while pushing disinformation about Biden during the 2020 election.
Mandatory Propaganda Segments: In 2018, Sinclair forced all its news anchors to read the exact same script, warning about the dangers of “fake news”—a direct echo of Trump’s talking points. The result was a viral supercut of local stations across the country reciting the same propaganda verbatim, exposing Sinclair’s national control over local newsrooms.
Eliminating Local Journalism: By buying out local TV stations, Sinclair destroys independent reporting and replaces it with corporate-controlled narratives.
Sinclair’s strength is subtlety. Unlike Fox, which openly caters to the right, Sinclair masquerades as neutral, objective local news, making its propaganda far more insidious.
Right-Wing Social Media: Propaganda for Every Audience
In the digital age, propaganda isn’t one-size-fits-all. The right-wing machine understands that different audiences require different packaging, so it has custom-built social media influencers and networks to target every demographic and personality type.
While Fox and Sinclair dominate traditional TV, the right has created a social media empire that covertly pushes the same talking points under different branding.
The Many Faces of Right-Wing Online Propaganda:
The "Well-Groomed" Independent Media Figures (Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Matt Walsh, etc.)
These figures present themselves as rational, intellectual “truth-tellers” who claim to offer independent analysis.
Their content is framed as anti-woke, pro-“facts,” and grounded in logic, but in reality, they’re just Fox News with better production quality and a younger audience.
The Extremist Conspiracists (Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, Steve Bannon, etc.)
These propagandists push outright conspiracies, from COVID hoaxes to the “Great Replacement” theory.
Their job is to spread extreme ideas first, so that more “respectable” right-wing figures can later mainstream them in watered-down form.
The Fake Centrist "Liberals" (Tim Pool, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, etc.)
They pretend to be centrists or even left-leaning but conveniently spend 99% of their time attacking progressives while excusing or downplaying right-wing corruption.
The Youth Outreach Wing (Charlie Kirk, TPUSA, PragerU, etc.)
Their job is to recruit young people into right-wing ideology, often by injecting conservative talking points into pop culture, gaming, and social media trends.
The "Diversity Shields" (Candace Owens, Jesse Lee Peterson, etc.)
Their role is to give conservatives cover against accusations of racism or misogyny by having Black, female, or minority figures repeat the same right-wing messaging.
The Casual “I’m Just Asking Questions” Types (Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, etc.)
These figures avoid openly identifying as conservatives but platform far-right talking points and conspiracy theorists under the guise of “just exploring ideas.”
The Microbloggers: The Digital Attack Dogs (Laura Loomer, Catturd2, Jack Posobiec, LibsofTikTok, etc.)
Unlike major social media influencers, these figures primarily operate on X (Twitter) and other microblogging sites, setting daily outrage cycles and flooding feeds with right-wing narratives.
Their role is to amplify GOP messaging in real-time, attack left-wing figures, and manufacture viral disinformation.
Despite their different aesthetics and rhetorical styles, they all push the same underlying messages:
The left is dangerous and authoritarian.
The right is fighting for freedom and common sense.
Diversity and progressivism are corrupting society.
Conservatives are the real victims.
A Four-Pronged Strategy for Disinformation and Control
Together, Fox News/OANN/NewsMax, Sinclair Broadcasting, the right-wing social media ecosystem, and microbloggers ensure that propaganda reaches every level of society.
Fox radicalizes the national conservative base, ensuring they’re loyal, outraged, and disconnected from reality.
Sinclair reinforces those same narratives locally, making sure even communities without Fox are still fed right-wing disinformation.
Social media influencers distribute the same messages in different flavors, ensuring that every demographic—from young gamers to suburban moms—gets propaganda tailored to their preferences.
Microbloggers flood real-time platforms, setting daily outrage cycles, testing new narratives, and attacking political opponents.
From Microbloggers to the National Stage: How Lies Are Scaled Up
The right-wing disinformation machine doesn’t just spread lies—it carefully nurtures and amplifies them, testing their effectiveness before pushing them to a national audience.
Many of the biggest right-wing conspiracies don’t start on Fox News—they begin with microbloggers on platforms like X (Twitter), Truth Social, and Telegram. These low-level propagandists test new narratives, gauging engagement, and seeing which lies resonate the most.
Step 1: The Microbloggers Test the Waters
Figures like Laura Loomer, Jack Posobiec, and Catturd2 flood platforms with new conspiracy theories, fake news, and disinformation.
They monitor engagement, retweets, and influencer uptake, seeing which falsehoods gain traction.
If a narrative fails, they drop it and move on. If it catches on, it moves up the chain.
Step 2: Social Media Influencers Pick It Up
Once a narrative has been tested at the microblogger level, it is picked up by YouTube personalities, podcasters, and social media influencers.
Figures like Tim Pool, Charlie Kirk, and Candace Owens start framing the lie as a “controversial but important discussion.”
This legitimizes the falsehood, allowing a wider audience to engage with it without realizing they’re being manipulated.
Step 3: The Lie Goes Mainstream
Once it reaches Daily Wire pundits, Steve Bannon, and the wider right-wing media ecosystem, the lie becomes a “major story” in the conservative bubble.
At this stage, it’s no longer presented as a fringe theory—it’s “breaking news.”
Sinclair stations run local news segments repeating the talking points, reinforcing the narrative across hundreds of U.S. communities.
Step 4: Fox News and Elected Officials Give It Full Legitimacy
By the time Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson (formerly—now running his own grift on social media), Sean Hannity, and Jesse Watters pick it up, the story is fully laundered into mainstream conservative discourse.
Republican lawmakers start repeating it on the House floor.
Trump or other top Republicans amplify it in speeches, interviews, or on Truth Social.
At this point, the lie has become “fact” in the conservative universe—it no longer matters whether it’s debunked or disproven, because Fox, Sinclair, and GOP politicians treat it as established truth.
The Right Is Not a Monolith—But the Deep State Keeps Them United
One of the biggest misconceptions people have about the right is that it’s a single, unified ideology. It isn’t. The modern right is a coalition of factions that often don’t even like each other, yet somehow, they all march in the same direction when it comes to dismantling government, attacking secularism, gutting public education, destroying the safety net, and fighting inclusivity.
This shouldn’t work. In theory, these factions have wildly different priorities, including but not limited to:
Libertarians want small government and deregulation.
Christian nationalists want theocracy and state-imposed morality.
Neo-Nazis and white nationalists want racial purity and a white ethnostate.
War hawks want constant military intervention.
Isolationists want to pull out of international conflicts.
Blue-collar conservatives want better jobs and economic security.
These groups should be at each other’s throats. And yet, when it comes time to vote, protest, or rally behind authoritarian strongmen, they show up in lockstep.
Why? Because the right-wing deep state is masterful at keeping them aligned.
Their Nuances Are Beside the Point
The bottom line: I’m not pretending the right is one big hive mind. Libertarians, Christian nationalists, blue-collar conservatives, old-school neocons—they’ve got real differences, sometimes bitter ones. And sure, if you want to sit around a conference table and debate the finer points of Austrian economics vs. dominion theology, be my guest.
But let’s get real:
Those internal squabbles vanish the minute they find a shared target—“woke” teachers, trans kids, immigrants, “big government,” whatever keeps them howling in unison.
They still march to the same ballot box and pull the lever for politicians hell-bent on protecting billionaires, crushing labor, and rolling back civil rights.
They still tune in to the same media machine that weaponizes outrage to distract from their empty wallets and crumbling healthcare.
That’s the point. The differences in theology or foreign policy or personal taste don’t matter one bit if the net result is the same: a stranglehold on power that benefits corporate overlords and religious extremists alike. Focusing on their little nuances is exactly how they get you to drop your guard. It lulls you into thinking, “Well, maybe the libertarians aren’t so bad,” or, “Surely the Christian right might resist corporate greed.” Meanwhile, the entire coalition votes in lockstep to gut regulations, privatize education, and rig the courts.
So, yes—there are distinctions among them. They occasionally bicker. But until those disagreements shatter their collective grip on power, it’s basically a distraction. You can parse all the sub-factions you like; in the end, they’re still shoulder-to-shoulder, smashing democracy, while you’re left marveling at their “nuances.”
How the Deep State Keeps Its Coalition Together
The right-wing deep state doesn’t need philosophical consistency—it needs a common enemy.
That’s why it constantly redirects its coalition’s rage, fear, and frustration toward a set of manufactured villains:
The Government – "Big Government is coming to take your guns, your money, your freedom!"
Secularism – "The left wants to erase Christianity and replace it with wokeism!"
Education – "The schools are indoctrinating your kids with CRT and trans ideology!"
The Safety Net – "Welfare is making people lazy and bankrupting America!"
Inclusivity – "Diversity is just anti-white discrimination!"
📢 The deep state doesn’t unite the right by giving them a common vision—it unites them by giving them common enemies.
They don’t have to agree on solutions. They don’t even have to like each other. They just have to hate the same things.
The Strategic Use of Manufactured Outrage
Every time a wedge issue starts to lose effectiveness, the deep state pivots to a new one.
Same-sex marriage lost its power as a wedge issue? Pivot to trans people.
Fear of Islamic terrorism declined? Pivot to “woke” college students and immigrants.
Too much outrage fatigue from racial issues? Pivot to “parental rights” and banning books.
The machine is always evolving, always manufacturing new enemies, always finding ways to keep its coalition enraged and mobilized.
📢 That’s why Fox News, Sinclair, and right-wing media run on a 24/7 outrage cycle—because without a constant flood of manufactured fear, their coalition falls apart.
The Hidden Purpose of the Culture War
The culture war is not the end goal—it’s a tool.
It keeps libertarians aligned with theocrats even though theocrats want big government control over morality.
It keeps blue-collar conservatives aligned with billionaires even though billionaire policies screw them over.
It keeps isolationists aligned with war hawks even though their foreign policy goals are opposites.
The right-wing deep state doesn’t care if these groups agree. It only cares that they see the same enemies and keep fighting the same fight.
📢 Every moment they spend fighting “wokeism” is a moment they aren’t questioning why their wages are stagnant, why billionaires pay no taxes, or why their healthcare is unaffordable.
This is how the deep state exploits them—by keeping them too angry at made-up enemies to realize they’re being robbed blind.
The Real Deep State: The Perfect Projection
"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed."
—Hannah Arendt, The Origin of Totalitarianism
For years, the right-wing machine has conditioned its followers to fear a mythical “deep state”—a supposed cabal of unelected bureaucrats, leftist elites, and globalists working to subvert democracy from the shadows. It’s been the cornerstone of Republican propaganda, used to justify every abuse of power and every attack on democratic institutions.
But here’s the ironic reality: The deep state exists—but it’s the very apparatus yelling about the “deep state”.
The think tanks, the dark money networks, the judicial pipeline, the corporate-controlled media—they are the actual unelected elite that has been running America for decades.
And their greatest trick? Convincing millions that their enemies are guilty of the very crimes they are committing.
Projection as Psychological Warfare
The deep state has always weaponized projection—accusing its enemies of its own crimes before it can be held accountable. This is not an accident—it’s a deliberate psychological strategy.
How Right-Wing Projection Works:
Disarm Critics Before They Can Strike
Republicans are rigging elections? No, they claim Democrats are stealing votes.
Conservative billionaires are running a shadow government? No, they claim it’s George Soros and “globalist elites.”
They’re flooding the courts with partisan judges? No, they claim Democrats are trying to “pack” the courts.
Create a False Equivalence
By accusing the left of the exact same things they are doing, they muddy the waters and make it impossible for casual observers to separate truth from lies.
Example: Trump’s open criminality is dismissed because “Biden is just as corrupt.” (He isn’t, but the accusation is enough to create doubt.)
Give Their Followers a Ready-Made Defense
Instead of having to explain their own corruption, their followers immediately shift the blame to the left.
Example: “Hunter Biden’s laptop” becomes a catch-all deflection to dismiss any accusation against Trump or the Republican Party.
Justify Authoritarianism in the Name of 'Fighting Back'
If the deep state is out to destroy conservatives, then they are justified in breaking laws, silencing dissent, and dismantling democracy in order to stop them.
This is how they rationalize coup attempts, voter suppression, and packing the courts with extremists.
Projection is not just a defense mechanism—it’s a weaponized political strategy.
Two Perfect Examples:
The Abortion Issue—The Greatest Spin in U.S. History
The abortion fight is one of the greatest political scams in American history—a manufactured crisis, engineered by the right-wing deep state to manipulate millions of evangelicals into becoming foot soldiers for their political machine.
Before the late 1970s, abortion was a non-issue for evangelicals. The Southern Baptist Convention even supported Roe v. Wade when it was decided in 1973. For decades, conservative Protestants largely saw abortion as a Catholic issue, not a battle they needed to fight.
So why did it suddenly become a defining issue for the religious right? Because Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich needed a way to pull evangelicals into politics.
At the time, the real concern of the evangelical leadership wasn’t abortion—it was segregation. Bob Jones University and other white evangelical schools were furious about losing their tax-exempt status due to their racist policies. But Weyrich and Falwell knew they couldn’t publicly mobilize evangelicals around defending segregation—so they needed a new rallying cry.
That’s when they landed on abortion.
They rebranded evangelical Christianity into a single-issue, anti-abortion movement.
They convinced millions that voting Republican was a religious duty.
They created the myth that abortion was the greatest moral crisis in American history.
It was a deliberate, calculated political strategy. Abortion wasn’t the problem—evangelical voter apathy was. And by the time they were done, the religious right had been fully absorbed into the Republican machine.
The result?
Theocrats took over the courts, culminating in the fall of Roe v. Wade.
Christian nationalism was embedded into the Republican platform.
Evangelicals became a captive voting bloc, manipulated by the very deep state they claim to oppose.
The abortion issue was never about morality or life. It was about power.
And today, that same machine is stripping away more rights—not just abortion, but contraception, LGBTQ+ protections, and even democracy itself.
The Gun Issue—The Greatest Fraud in U.S. History
"The greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people."
—Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, 1991
Just as the right-wing deep state manufactured the abortion issue to mobilize evangelicals, they engineered the modern gun rights movement to radicalize conservatives and ensure they would see any form of gun regulation as an existential threat to their freedom.
For most of U.S. history, the Second Amendment was not interpreted as an individual right to unlimited gun ownership. The Supreme Court had long ruled that the amendment was about maintaining well-regulated militias, not about individual citizens stockpiling arsenals. Even conservative legal scholars agreed.
So what changed? The NRA was captured by right-wing extremists.
Before the late 1970s, the NRA was a gun safety and sportsman organization. It supported commonsense gun laws, including background checks and bans on mail-order firearms. But just like the evangelical movement, the NRA was politically hijacked.
In 1977, a hard-right faction led by Harlon Carter staged a coup within the NRA, transforming it from a sporting organization into an aggressive political machine.
By the 1980s, the NRA was working hand-in-hand with ALEC and the Heritage Foundation, pushing the narrative that any gun regulation was an attack on fundamental freedom.
By the 2000s, right-wing justices—many handpicked by the Federalist Society—rewrote the meaning of the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), overturning over 200 years of precedent.
The transformation of the gun issue was not organic. It was a deliberate, manufactured propaganda campaign designed to turn gun owners into a radicalized political force, ready to fight for Republican power at all costs.
The Lasting Impact of the Gun Propaganda Machine
✔ A Massively Profitable Gun Industry: The NRA, backed by gun manufacturers, turned gun culture into a hyper-masculine identity movement, where owning weapons became a marker of patriotism, rebellion, and manhood. Gun sales skyrocketed.
✔ Endless Manufactured Panic: Every time a Democrat takes office, the NRA and right-wing media manufacture fear that “they’re coming for your guns” to drive sales and keep their base engaged.
✔ A Permanent Culture War Wedge Issue: Conservatives have been conditioned to see any attempt at gun regulation—no matter how mild—as an attack on their entire way of life. Even policies with overwhelming public support, like universal background checks, are now politically impossible.
✔ Endless Violence, No Accountability: The mass shooting crisis is a direct result of this manufactured extremism. The U.S. is the only developed country where gun violence is a daily occurrence—because no other country has a deep-state-funded propaganda machine that radicalizes its citizens into believing gun control is tyranny.
The modern gun rights movement isn’t about the Constitution. It’s about ensuring a heavily armed conservative base that can be mobilized through fear and paranoia.
The right-wing deep state isn’t just interested in making sure people can own guns. They are ensuring that their followers are armed, radicalized, and ready to defend their power when democracy fails to deliver the results they want.
How the Right-Wing Deep State Stays in Power
The beauty of their system is that it doesn’t rely on public support—it relies on control.
They don’t need majorities—they use gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the Electoral College to maintain power with a minority of the electorate.
They don’t need to win arguments—they just need their media apparatus to manufacture outrage that drowns out reality.
They don’t need fair courts—they have Leonard Leo’s judges to rubber-stamp their agenda, no matter how unpopular.
They don’t need grassroots movements—they have corporate-funded Christian nationalists and billionaire Super PACs to flood elections with cash.
They don’t need democracy—they need the illusion of democracy, just enough to keep the public pacified while they consolidate power.
And every accusation they hurl at the left is a confession about themselves.
The Final Irony: They’ve Trained Their Followers to Fight for Their Own Oppression
Perhaps the greatest achievement of the deep state is convincing millions of Americans to fight for their own subjugation.
Working-class conservatives cheer for tax cuts that only benefit billionaires.
Evangelicals fight for a Christian nationalist state that will strip away their freedoms the moment they dissent.
Right-wing voters demand deregulation—ensuring that corporations can exploit them even further.
They rally behind authoritarian leaders, thinking they are fighting the “deep state,” when in reality, they are serving it.
This is not just corruption.
This is not just political strategy.
This is psychological warfare. And if we don’t fight back, they will win.
The right-wing deep state isn’t hidden in the shadows—it’s operating in front of us, openly, without consequences. They’ve built a machine that warps reality, rigs the system, and turns their followers into foot soldiers for their own oppression. And unless we expose them, dismantle their institutions, and break their stranglehold on information, they will continue their march toward permanent minority rule.
The Fascist Coalition: Manufacturing Outrage, Destroying Democracy
At this point, the blueprint is clear. The right-wing deep state has engineered a fascist coalition—not by uniting people around a shared vision, but by keeping them perpetually outraged at an endless list of enemies.
This coalition is not made up of elites alone—the real power comes from its ability to mobilize ordinary people against their own interests through fear, hatred, and scapegoating.
Most of their base are not billionaires.
Most of their base are not even religious extremists.
Most of their base are not actually persecuted.
And yet, they vote as if they are.
Why? Because the entire system depends on keeping them afraid.
The government, secularism, education, inclusivity, democracy itself—these are not just policy disputes to the deep state. These are existential threats to their power. That’s why they’ve spent decades dismantling these institutions.
The result? A coalition hellbent on destroying everything that stands in their way.
The Right-Wing Deep State Runs on Fear and Scapegoating
If there is one thing that keeps their coalition together, it’s this:
“YOU are under attack.”
They convince their base that:
Government is coming for your guns and your freedom.
Secularism is erasing Christianity.
Education is brainwashing your kids.
Inclusivity is a disguise for “anti-white discrimination.”
Immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, and minorities are the root of all problems.
This is not about facts—it’s about keeping them in a permanent state of siege mentality. If the enemy is always at the gates, they will never stop fighting—even when that fight directly harms them.
That’s why they vote against their own wages.
That’s why they fight for billionaires’ tax cuts.
That’s why they demand “freedom” while embracing dictatorship.
And it’s why, despite all their internal contradictions, they keep marching in lockstep.
Weaponizing “Hypobole”: The Strategy of Deflecting the Fascism Label
One of the most successful tricks of the modern right-wing deep state is the weaponization of “hypobole”—their ability to cry hyperbole whenever they are called what they actually are: fascists.
They scream that calling Trump a fascist is overblown.
They say “dictator” is an extreme word.
They whine that the media is “biased” if it accurately reports on their authoritarianism.
They claim the left is hysterical for warning about democracy’s collapse.
And, worst of all? The media plays along.
The American press—terrified of being seen as “partisan”—refuses to call fascism what it is. Instead, they use:
“Strongman tactics” instead of dictatorship.
“Populist” instead of demagogue.
“Undemocratic policies” instead of outright authoritarianism.
The result? They normalize it.
📢 Hypobole is their shield—without it, they would be fully exposed.
And yet, by any historical measure, they meet every definition of fascism.
Let’s Set the Record Straight: Trumpism IS Fascism
The media won’t say it, but we will: Trump is a fascist. His movement is fascist. His entire plan for 2025 is openly authoritarian.
Every core element of fascism is present in Trumpism. He demands absolute loyalty, firing or punishing anyone who disobeys him. He tells his followers, "I am your retribution," insists only he can "fix" the country, and surrounds himself with sycophants willing to break laws to serve him.
Like all fascists before him, Trump mythologizes a false past to justify his power. Make America Great Again is not just a slogan—it’s a call to return to an era that never actually existed, where minorities, women, and political dissenters “knew their place.” Every strongman in history has sold the same dream of national “restoration” while dismantling democracy.
Trump openly defies Constitutional norms to consolidate power. He tried to overturn an election, called for the termination of the Constitution, and now, through Project 2025, is working to purge the federal government of anyone not personally loyal to him. His goal is to replace democracy with a one-man rule, enforced by handpicked loyalists.
Below is Russel Vought, architect of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, former and current OMB Director under Donald Trump, talking about their plan to purge the federal government by attrition.
Like all fascist leaders, he scapegoats minorities to justify his rise. He blames immigrants for crime and job loss, calls trans people a “threat” that must be “eradicated,” and fuels racial paranoia to keep his base in a constant state of panic. His movement does not offer solutions—only enemies.
Trump even has his own concentration camp—Guantanamo Bay—where his administration is already detaining undocumented immigrants without trial. With the Laken Riley Act, he now has the power to detain anyone suspected of both a crime and being undocumented, without due process. His push for mass deportations, expanded camps, and police-state crackdowns is already underway—and will only escalate.
And, as every fascist does, Trump attacks the press as “the enemy of the people” to undermine truth itself. He has threatened to jail journalists, revoke media licenses, and punish networks that report on his corruption. He relies entirely on propaganda, telling his followers that any news outside of his controlled ecosystem is a lie.
📢 This is not hyperbole—this is literal fascism, unfolding in real time.
And yet, because of hypobole—the right’s ability to cry “exaggeration” at every accusation—the media refuses to call it what it is. But we will.
How Do We Fight Back?
I didn’t write this so you could go out and explain a 10,000-word essay to your conservative uncle. That strategy is dead.
We are beyond a world of nuance, lectures, and “well actually” facts. If explaining could fix this, it would have by now. If debating in good faith worked, we wouldn’t be here.
I wrote this so that you—the people who still believe in democracy—understand that a deep state DOES exist, but it’s not the one Fox News screams about.
It’s precisely the apparatus controlling Fox News.
The real unelected elite—their think tanks, their billionaires, their media empire—have spent decades rigging the system in their favor. The Trump cult isn’t fighting a deep state. They ARE the deep state’s foot soldiers.
And it’s time for us to weaponize that truth against them.
We Must Split the Cult from Its Masters
This is the attack vector.
The cult members themselves—the people radicalized by Fox, Sinclair, and social media—are not the deep state. They are its pawns.
They are lied to, manipulated, used, discarded, and told to suffer for the benefit of the real deep state.
Many of them are finding out the hard way.
Project 2025 is already here. Trump’s machine is gutting social programs, handing the economy over to billionaires, and leaving regular people to suffer.
They were promised prosperity, and instead, they are struggling while the elites get richer.
They were told Trump was “for the people,” but every policy is making their lives harder.
And who benefits? Not them.
The real deep state will feast while the cult suffers.
This is where we break them.
Attack the Deep State, Not the Pawns
Many of us hesitate to fight fire with fire for different reasons:
“I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist.”
“I don’t want to sound like them.”
“We should ‘go high when they go low.’”
That’s nonsense. That mindset is how we got here. That’s why we keep losing ground while they steamroll democracy.
Here’s what we do instead:
Drive a wedge between the deep state and its followers.
Make the cult members feel used, conned, and discarded.
Force them to ask themselves if they want to be pawns of the deep state’s fascist machine.
How to Break Through the Echo Chamber
1. Frame Their Overlords as the Real Deep State
"Of course there’s a deep state—it’s run by the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and billionaire elites."
"The real deep state put Trump in power, stacked the courts, and rigs elections for Republicans. They don’t care about any of the culture war issues, they just want you distracted by them so you will give them power."
"ALEC literally writes Republican laws in secret. That’s the deep state."
Turn their conspiracy theory against them. Force them to confront that they are being used by the people they think are saving them.
2. Expose How the Deep State Uses and Discards Them
"The deep state isn’t liberal elites—it’s billionaire Republicans stripping away your healthcare and job protections while telling you to be mad at drag queens."
"You think they want freedom? They want control. They don’t care about the flag or anything it represents, they just use the flag to play on your patriotism. Will you let them?"
"Project 2025 isn’t coming—it’s here. While they get richer off your struggles, they expect you to swallow their lies about who’s to blame."
Make them feel abandoned. When people feel betrayed, they start asking questions.
3. Force Them to Ask: Do They WANT to Be Pawns of Fascism?
" This ‘deep state’ is a machine for corporate and authoritarian power. Will you keep serving it, or will you stand up for real American values?"
"Fascists don’t care about America, they only care about power. Are you going to be their tool, or will you break free?"
" You don’t have to march under their banner. Walk away—remind them you can think for yourself."
We don’t call them fascists—we make them reject fascism themselves. Make them ask, “Wait—am I on the wrong side here?”
Stop Lies from Being Upgraded to the National Stage
The right-wing disinformation machine doesn’t just spread lies—it carefully nurtures and amplifies them, testing their effectiveness before pushing them to a national audience.
Many of the biggest right-wing conspiracies don’t start on Fox News—they begin with microbloggers on platforms like X (Twitter), Truth Social, and Telegram. These low-level propagandists test new narratives, gauge engagement, and see which lies resonate the most.
🔥 We must disrupt this cycle.
🔥 When a new conspiracy starts, attack it at the microblogger level before it can spread.
🔥 Expose how they are being played before the lie can be laundered.
🔥 DO NOT abandon these platforms—leaving them uncontested turns them into right-wing echo chambers.
We must stay, fight, and challenge disinformation at its source.
This Is a War for Reality Itself
The right-wing deep state isn’t just rigging elections or stacking courts—they are rewiring people’s perception of reality. They don’t need to win arguments—they just need enough people to believe in their version of events.
That’s what we’re up against.
And the only way to break through is to hammer them with the truth in ways they can’t ignore.
✔ No more lectures.
✔ No more “let’s agree to disagree.”
✔ No more giving them the benefit of the doubt.
They want this to be a one-sided war where they get to spread lies while we sit politely and correct them.
We have to stop playing by their rules.
So Here’s What You Do Right Now:
Use their language against them.
The deep state is real—and it’s controlling them.
Make them feel used and discarded.
Trump and his masters don’t care about them—they were useful idiots, and now they’re being discarded.
Make them question if they WANT to be pawns.
“Are you really on the side of freedom, or are you going to let yourself be another tool of fascist elites?”
Never let a lie stand unchallenged. Ever.
Do NOT abandon the battlefield.
Fight back on every platform. Do not let their propaganda go unchallenged.
We are losing our country.
The only question now is: are we going to fight for it?
Join the Fight, Amplify the Truth
Because silence is surrender. We never surrender. We are #TheRelentless.
The most clearly laid out summary of their plans and actions presented in a cohesive and easily understandable way I have ever read! Yes, it is long but worth every minute. I am sharing this far and wide and begging people to read it even if they have to do so in small segments and to share, share, share!
I knew almost all of the information contained, without all the names and dates, and this pulled together all the disparate info into a cohesive story of what has, and is happening on so many fronts. Bravo! Now let’s help others understand their plan and goals and ban together to run these fascists to the end of the earth!
Excellent. I too am familiar with the players, but not how they fit so seamlessly together....frightening. We dont have billions to oppose them. Just people power!!!