Are we watching a Coup D'etat?

There is a piece in yesterdays Federalist site entitled We Are Watching A Slow-Motion Coup D’etat. Now the Federalist is right-leaning, so I would normally discount much of what they say as biased. But in this case I think they may be on to something real.

I suggested months ago before the election that the entire Washington establishment - the ruling elites and their supporters in the media, Republican and Democratic alike - was against Trump because as an outsider he threatened their cozy incestuous little world. Once he was elected, to the shock and dismay of those who thought they had defeated him, and began to upset their world for real, the bureaucracy - the so -called "deep state" - really turned on him, and the attacks have been incessant since then. He has certainly given them openings with his sometimes intemperate tweets and contradictory statements, but they have gone far from those minor transgressions to fabricate damaging stories and leak classified information to destroy not only Trump but many of his cabinet members and staff.

One symptom of how bad this situation is is the amount of leaked information appearing in the press. Even private conversations from the Oval Office over the telephone with foreign leaders gets leaked within hours to the press. Even highly classified information is leaked. Clearly even the intelligence community is in on these attacks. Governing effectively requires a lot of private conversations and even private deals - there is no way the government can function if even the most private discussions get into the press within hours.

I am beginning to think we really do have a government crisis here - and it's not Trump's crisis - its the crisis of a government bureaucracy that has gone rogue - decided that it knows better than the voters and is determined to unseat a government the voters elected - if by a narrow margin.

As I have said before, this election was a revolt of the working class  (the real working class, not the poor that the liberals so often label as the working class) against the elites.  If the elites destroy Trump - the representative the working class voted for - I think we will have a real constitutional crisis.  Trump wasn't my choice for president (neither was Hillary), but he was lawfully elected. If he is deposed by these attacks, than democracy will have been thwarted and we are no longer a democratic society. That ought to worry all of  us a lot!.