© Ryan Olbrysh for TIME
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.
The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.
Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump's ouster.
A second odd thing happened amid Trump's attempts to reverse the result:
corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump's candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. "It was all very, very strange," Trump said on Dec. 2.
"Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted."
In a way, Trump was right.
There was
a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both
curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of
an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain - inspired by the summer's massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests - in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.
Comment: If Democratic leadership is aware, in cahoots, and approves these methods (and there is no reason to doubt it for a minute) the plots against Trump have been pre-planned, massive and all-encompassing. He is therefore not without justification to counteract these multiple ploys in any and all ways possible. We, the peeps, only glimpse the menace after the fact if we are astute enough to notice. Only knowledge of just how diabolical the scope and determination to oust Trump is now, and has been since he threw his hat in the ring for 2016, gives proper perspective. For a look at 'The Playbook" go here.
Tucker Carlson taps into the diabolical workings of this group and airs these views and theories:
See also:
Transition Integrity Project: Is This Soros-linked Group Plotting a 'Color Revolution' Against President Trump?