Core Tenets of the Trump Movement—in Retrospect
Including Notes on the Tragedy of the American Left
By Byron Belitsos
Feb 7, 2021
I have long felt that in politics, it’s what folks believe and not the hard facts that matters most. In this brief essay, I share a distillation of what appears to be core tenets and religious ideas of the Trump movement leading up to recent historic events. My findings are influenced in part by my eyewitness experience of the January 6 events at the U.S. Capitol. At the same time, my perceptions are also based on a transpartisan or integral methodology that looks in sympathy at all sides of a political question. This approach relies on the postmodern notion that one must pursue a multi-perspectival understanding of any social phenomenon; no one position has the whole truth, and virtually every political tendency contains partial truths that arise from its unique vantage point on events.
I’ll confess to one more assumption: The progressive left, when it abandoned involvement with “deep politics” several decades ago, created a yawning vacuum that was filled by variety of other political tendencies hostile to the goals of the left (equality and social justice), and which eventually were rolled up into the Trump movement.
You may have noticed long ago that today’s so-called democratic left accepts, with almost no complaint, the official government accounts of such “deep events” as the JFK assassination or 9/11. As I see it, this posture took shape after the destruction of the Black Panthers and the Marxist New Left that culminated in the late 1970s. I was an activist on the far left beginning in the late 1960s, and I can vouch that back then we had no difficulty grasping the idea that the JFK assassination or the assassination of Fred Hampton (not to mention the RFK and MLK assassinations) were nothing less than covert government operations arranged by the CIA or FBI. We firmly understood that that the Vietnam War was launched with a false-flag operation (i.e., the Gulf of Tonkin incident) and that this war was (in part) a cover for narco-trafficking by deep-state actors.
At some point a turning point was reached, perhaps in the mid-1980s, in large part resulting from the ravages of the COINTELPRO program and other means of state repression directed in large part by J. Edgar Hoover. After this very painful process, the remnants of the radical left largely set aside such considerations about a criminalized Deep State. In effect, the left ceded this domain to the growing “alt-right,” or, perhaps I should say that the alt-right rushed into the vacuum that was left behind by the crippled radical left. Rightists and libertarians increasingly adopted the ‘conspiracy’ view—but without benefit of the deep analytical tools once brought to bear by the New Left or without the depth of insight provided by singular voices like UC Berkeley professor Peter Dale Scott, the scholar who first coined the terms “deep state” and “deep events.” Thus, if I may simplify a bit, a few decades later these underground elements on the right coalesced to become the general Trump movement, now colored with its deep association with “loony lies and conspiracies” (as Mitch McConnel recently put it). This partial truth, i.e., this notion that a “global cabal or supermafia” calls the shots strategically behind the scenes, had now become the province of the “loony” right.
That’s why I believe it is my transpartisan duty to better understand the Trump political tendency, extract some of its partial truths, and perhaps even convince my friends on the left to reconsider the idea that criminalized government “covert ops” (or deeper global powers) may be behind such phenomena as the assassinations of the sixties, 9/11 and the War on Terror, such catastrophic events as the wars in Iraq, Libya, or Syria–and perhaps even the response to Covid. If we can remake this connection, then a way forward might be found for a unified, transpartisan, popular movement that stands up to and exposes the Deep State actors operating beneath the surface.
The left’s current allergy to deep politics is all the more tragic because it is undeniable that white supremacist, xenophobic, scientifically illiterate, and toxic Christian fundamentalist elements are (1) not only key parts of the Trump movement, but (2) have now become associated with those facts and truths about the Deep State that in themselves have no intrinsic relationship with right-wing political assumptions. To further confound this confusing situation, these nationalists, conspiracists, evangelistic Christians, and libertarians who were at the core of Trumpism now believe that the left and the Democrats have turned their backs against their economic interests and against bedrock American values—and even worse, view the Democrats as having gone rogue, being themselves co-opted by the Deep State. Sadly, too many Trumpists were politically inexperienced and well-meaning patriots who have increasingly lost trust in our institutions in large part because they have been barraged with distorted and ill-informed versions of those very disturbing facts—once embraced by the left—of pervasive Deep State corruption.
I say all this also because, again, it happens that I was an eye-witness of the events in Washington on January 6. Along with a close friend, I was at the “back side” of the Capitol from about 2pm to 4pm that day. As far as I could tell, this vast crown was not even aware of what was transpiring inside; it felt to me like a colossal citizen vigil was being held during the Congressional election certification process. It has been established that the “insurrection” began during Trump’s speech (at the other end of the mall)—and which was a 45-minute walk away. Generally speaking, I was impressed by the sincerity of people around me at this event, while tolerating the occasional exception of a rude or militant type with a megaphone, or a few parading with crude or offensive banners. The crowd’s passion and fervent devotion to the cause of patriotism was touching—providing evidence for what I would call a quasi-religious movement (addressed in another essay I have written). So now, if you will, scroll down to see the tenets of this movement as I understand it, then view the video links provided for more background on their beliefs.
BELIEFS AND TENETS OF THE TRUMP MOVEMENT
• A global criminal cabal exists that has infiltrated all major institutions worldwide
• The cabal’s ancestors and bloodlines can be traced back centuries and even millennia
• A reliable list of crimes of the cabal (wars, 9/11, pedophilia, drugs) has been compiled
• JFK, the first U.S. president to face down the cabal, was assassinated by the cabal
• After the JFK assassination, military generals and others formed a ‘White Hat’ faction • White Hats now
have deep roots in the military, most notably the Special Forces
• The “Black Hats” are associated with the CIA; the White Hats with military intelligence
• The cabal gained its greatest power through their agents: Clinton, Bush, and Obama
• The cabal now controls the levers of all mainstream media and Big Tech—this is crucial
• In 2015, White Hats got control of the NSA (via appointment of Admiral Mike Rogers)
• Also in that year, the White Hats approached Trump and asked him to run
• While the NSA spies on all of us, they also gather evidence on cabal communications
• This data and much other hard evidence now sits in thousands of sealed indictments
• The cabal knows they are now cornered; their response reached its endgame in 2020
• A key subset of the White Hats is “Q”, a crucial group of about 10 key insiders
• The White Hats possess very hard evidence of election theft, including the funding of the theft
• Much of the ‘fumbling’ of Trump and his circle has been a ruse to draw out their enemies
• Trump will order the mass arrest of the cabal criminals—this will begin very soon
• If Trump does not accomplish this, a Plan B will be implemented by the White Hats
• Tribunals exist that will prosecute the arrested criminals, starting with the Clintons
• The alleged ‘insurrection’ was a planned set-up that trapped the antifa activists who led it
• Special forces agents also entered the Capitol with the crowd, seizing evidence
• The rest of the demonstration outside the Capitol was peaceful (I was an eye-witness)
These two are among the best overview videos on the core ideas of the movement that I
have seen:
1. First view “The Plan to Save the World” (from the Q purveyors):
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2. Then go to this:
“Military Intelligence Operations Have Exposed The Cabal’s Plan To Takeover The USA” (from
‘NYrainman,’ an articulate ex-politiican):
https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/x3YrazPHDLvM/