"In 2017 the entire apparatus of the DC system is trying to use Alabama to defeat the existential risk that is Donald Trump."

At The Conservative Treehouse, Sundance explains,

In 2017 the entire apparatus of the DC system is trying to use Alabama to defeat the existential risk that is Donald Trump.

...The swamp is engaged, self-aware and the deep-state part is self-actuated now.

Example: NAFTA Round #5 (Mexico) begins this week: “lest trade disputes create friction with NAFTA-supporting Republican lawmakers.”

Example: “Republicans” control all Senate hearings:

Andrea Mitchell ✔@mitchellreports
For the first time in over 40 years - the Senate today examined a president's unchecked authority to launch a nuclear strike @NBCNightlyNews
4:39 PM - Nov 14, 2017
154 154 Replies 838 838 Retweets 2,914 2,914 likes

Example: Remember when the Senate voted unanimously to block President Trump from making recess appointments? That rule required “unanimity”, a single Republican senator could block the Senate from handcuffing President Trump. Not a single Republican broke ranks.

The professional political class in DC, the UniParty, is not confronting Steve Bannon though he’d probably like to make money off that outlook. The united political apparatus is confronting something far more consequential than the annoyance that Bannon represents; they are confronting the framework of ‘America First’.

That bigger dynamic is what’s adverse to their interests. Bannon is an annoying gnat.

When you accept that difference you are then prepared to ask yourself the question(s):

♦What would/will the professional apparatus do to protect their interests?

♦How far are they willing to go to oppose anything that appears adverse to those interests?

Read more here.

"We're putting connundrums on top of hypotheticals on top of conjecture"

Sundance has to be the busiest blogger. At the Last Refuge he writes,

Draining the proverbial swamp of the inherent corruption, and subsidiary corruptible influences from the entrenched benefactors, is the overriding source of the angst against the new administration.

For the media who depend on the bile in the swamp’s retention pond – to manipulate public opinion – no falsehood is out-of-bounds; no attack too severe; no rules of decency or diplomacy are considered; the ends justify all means as the war of attrition begins.

The approach from those who benefit from life amid the swamp is essentially a zero-sum outlook. Either the parasites win, or they will have forever lost their indulgences.

The media tries hard to catch up with the whirlwind of Trump administration activities.