Institutional Trust
When President Trump spoke of a swamp, he had no idea just how right he was. The swamp extends far beyond the political quagmire of Washington DC. It is everywhere, in every institution.
With the recent discovery of classified documents in several locations related to President Biden, including his garage, a special counsel has been appointed to investigate. Many conservatives fear that Attorney General Garland will simply sweep yet another Biden crime family scandal under the rug. Given that President Trump alleged that the classified documents found in the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago were planted and there has been no FBI raid on any properties related to the Biden crime family, conservative concerns on this front appear to be justified. Yet anyone listening to Rush would have already known that the institutions have been weaponized. In 2019, almost four years ago to the day, Rush talked about this very problem.
“There’s a larger element here, to me. And it is the increasing failure of trusted institutions to get things right now of this being bastardized is the FBI leadership under Barack Obama, the Department of Justice leadership under Barrack Obama. The Department of Justice is the epitome of where people expect there to be no political corruption and fairness. It’s already, if you find yourself up against the government in trial or in some accuse legal case, you’re already up against the eight ball ‘cause they got all the money in the world and you don’t have any. And everywhere you look the Catholic Church is letting down its practitioners in ways after ways after ways. And all other regulars are doing the same thing. They are failing to stand up for church teachings, and they are bowing to societal political pressure.”
In all his years on the radio, Rush was rarely wrong. But in this case, he was more right than perhaps even he realized. The politicization of the institutions has gone way beyond what even Rush talked about in this clip. And it is everywhere. Here are just two examples.
On January sixth, 2021, supporters of President Trump held a mostly peaceful protest inside the capital building. There is significant evidence that the entry into the Capital building was both facilitated by and agitated for by federal agents/assets. However, many of the people who entered the Capital building remain jailed, without trial, deprived of visitation rights, denied medical attention, and subject to abuse, horrific conditions, and countless other inhumanities that would not be visited on the worst pedophile or murderer. In fact, Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman convicted of helping Jeffrey Epstein traffic young women for decades, is serving her sentence in a minimum security prison where she is teaching etiquette and yoga classes! Keep in mind this woman helped traffic women for decades, and she gets minimum security and teaches other inmates yoga. Yet people who merely walked into the Capital building on January 6th are being treated like terrorists because they happen to support the wrong political candidate. Apparently, sex trafficking is a much lighter offense than walking into the Capital building with the compliance of the Capital police. Justice no longer wears a blindfold.
Justice is hardly the only institution that is abandoning its standards. Religion is as well. The largest evangelical denomination in America, the Southern Baptist Convention was once considered a bastion of conservatism. Yet their most recent leadership has been fraught with woke and anti-conservative views. The president of the convention elected in June of 2021, Ed Litton, who had embraced the core tenets of critical race theory was caught plagiarizing sermons from the previous president, J.D. Greear but never resigned. Greear had independently encouraged Christians to vote for Democratic candidates. The current president, Bart Barber, went on 60 Minutes and attacked members of his denomination with concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary employed at least two professors who were openly critical race theorists, Jarvis Williams, and Matt Hall. Hall has since joined the faculty of Biola University, another highly respected conservative evangelical school. Williams is still on the staff of Southern despite openly admitting to being influenced by critical race theory. Another Southern Baptist Seminary is offering a degree in social justice. While it is not the place for doctrinal arguments here, many Christians have argued that critical race theory is antithetical to the Gospel they believe. The religious hierarchy that many conservatives have at least respected, if not accepted, has been completely captured.
These two examples are hardly the only ones. Rush cited the Catholic church. Speak with any traditional Catholic and you will hear horror stories about how the church hierarchy is moving away from its conservative base and trying to mainstream things that were anathema a mere decade or two ago. The Vatican even recently defrocked a prominent pro-life priest, allegedly for blasphemy, but more likely because he refused to be silent about the murder of babies. Given that Pope Francis likely helped cover up abuse in Argentina during his time there and rehabilitated one of the worst abusers in the church, it seems the church is, as it were, digging in the wrong place.
Rush, with his usual clarity, realized what was happening to the institutions. They were undergoing the Marxist “long march” where slowly, stealthily, Marxists use entryism to get inside the institutions and like a zombie virus, slowly change the institutions to create more Marxists and work for Marxist goals. That is what has happened to the Catholic church, the Department of Justice, and the Southern Baptist Convention, among others. When President Trump spoke of a swamp, he had no idea just how right he was. The swamp extends far beyond the political quagmire of Washington DC. It is everywhere, in every institution, from colleges to businesses, to schools, to churches, to even mosques. Anything that has influence, the Marxists have infiltrated and taken control of, or are currently attempting to do so. However, their absolute numbers are still small. If ordinary Americans take the blinders off, stop being low-information voters, and get engaged in the political process, the Marxists can still be defeated.