by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization:

It didn’t take long for the Anglo-American establishment to launch operations to counter the strategic intent of U.S. voters in providing Donald Trump with a resounding victory on November 5. The dramatic rejection by the electorate of Biden-Harris policies was taken by Trump as a go-ahead to fulfill his mission from his first election in 2016, to “drain the swamp”, and end the “Permanent Wars” favored by the “swamp” since the first Gulf War began in January 1991. The “swamp”, for Trump and his supporters, is a reference to the permanent bureaucracy running U.S. foreign and domestic policy, sometimes identified as the “Military-Industrial Complex”, or the “Deep State.” His pledge to “purge” the “swamp” operatives, which helped carry him to victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, was undermined by the persistent drumbeat of the fraudulent Russiagate narrative — which falsely attributed his victory to meddling in the election by Putin and Russian cyber-networks — and by the presence of a gang of neocons in his administration, many of whom had been appointed by Trump. He campaigned in 2024 with a renewed pledge that, this time, it will be different.