More Dems are openly praising the "Deep State" sabotaging the president

For most of the last three years Democrats have sneered at the notion that a "deep state" of bureaucrats was thwarting any Trump policy it didn't like.

Yet oddly, many people brag that they are proud members of a deep state resistance.  Some even boast about the idea of a blocking presidential policies.

Recently a former acting CIA chief proclaimed in a public forum, "Thank God for the deep state." Former CIA director John Brennan agreed and praised "deep state people" for their opposition to Trump.

Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the Ukraine whistleblower, boasted in two recently discovered tweets of ongoing efforts to stage a coup to remove Trump.

"#Coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow," Zaid tweeted in January 2017. Later the same month, he tweeted: "#coup has started. As one falls, two more will take their place."

Retired Admiral William H. McRaven recently wrote an op-ed for The New York Times all but calling for Trump's ouster -- "the sooner the better." 

No sooner had Trump been elected than Rosa Brooks, a former Defense Department official during the Obama administration, wrote an essay for Foreign Policy magazine discussing theoretical ways to remove Trump before the 2020 election, among them a scenario involving a military coup.

In September 2018, The New York Times published an op-ed from an anonymous source it claimed was a White House official, who boasted of supposedly massive efforts inside the administration to nullify presidential policies and subvert presidential directives.

In the past you might think liberals, socialists and Democrats would oppose such tactics, on the simple pragmatic principle that using them legitimized their use by conservatives under a Democrat administration.  But Democrats know--from endless experience--that conservatives don't fight fire with fire.  Thus Dems see not even a tiny drawback to this type of rebellion.

One wonders how this can end well.

(H/T Victor Davis Hanson)