The Real Deep State (Part 4/7)
How The Right-Wing Captured America
At the request of several readers, this article is part of a multi-part series exposing the real deep state—the corporate-theocratic machine that has quietly reshaped America for decades. Each part breaks down a different aspect of its power structure, revealing how it operates and how we can dismantle it. This is Part [4/7]
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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.
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.
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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.”
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This is one of the clearest explanations I have read about how the Right keeps its power. Thank you!
Obviously, even back then,to any paying attention, HR Clinton nailed it: 'a vast right-wing conspiracy'.