The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, welcome. Welcome to the Pro America Report. This is Ryan Hite again, filling in for Mr. Ed Martin this week on the program. And I am glad to be with you here for another day. Another great day of some fun things for us to talk about. Well, I say fun things. There’s some not so fun things. There’s some fun things. If you like politics like I do, though, it’s an election year and today of all days, it’s an Election Day. There’s a lot of municipal elections, school board and mayors, and Alderman and all sorts of fun things that you should be involved in. So we’re gonna come back and talk about that real quick at the end of the program. But I have something else that we need to cover for the WYNK. Something else actually. You know Ed may not be here with us on the show. But he is still with us here in news, not in spirit. You heard me right in news because he has a guest piece this week over on AMAC that we want to talk about real quick.
But before we get into it, let me tell you about proamericareport.com. PhyllisSchlafly.com, two websites that you, I hope, are very familiar with. At this point, these are two places you want to go, because at PhyllisSchlafly.com, of course you will find the archives of this program, all of the podcasts, the standalone segments of the guests, lots of links and resources, and of course the all important WYNK e-mail. What you need to know every morning into your inbox. I promise you won’t regret it. It’ll be a great addition to your morning routine. But of course also at proamericareport.com you can find Ed’s substack what he is writing about what he’s talking about. Often it coincides with this obviously Pro America Report, sharing the name.
So we’re sharing a lot of the same talking points, information, things that you really do Need to know about giving you an analysis of what’s happening, not just the headlines that you could go and find from any old place but it, but what it actually means and what all it’s connected to. And I tell you what, that’s something that we want to talk about today, something that I think is incredibly important, that we must understand. It’s got a lot of long reaching tentacles. This this topic, yes, but more. More than that, the tentacles go beyond it to the deep state that we’re going to talk about.
And I know this is a this is such an interesting topic because labels labels are a funny thing, aren’t they? That deep state, the establishment. In her book A Choice Not an Echo, which she published 60 years ago this year. Phyllis Schlafly called them the kingmakers. These elitist people, these forces, these groups, those who think that they ought to assume and retain the laurels of power in America and influence and wealth. Even though we are a representative Republic where citizens and this is how it’s supposed to work, citizens ought to go and have a season of service, a time of service representing their fellow citizens in the legislature or in an executive role, whether that’s in the County Executive or all the way up to a state. Or to the federal level, this is how that is supposed to work. A season of service where we have a citizen based legislature.
But it has turned into that all-encompassing nasty word, career politicians. This has turned into a career for most people. Elected office. Now. Fine. Maybe there’s some positions that are appointed, not elected, that that you would have kind of a career out of because it makes sense. Engineers, people who build things, who work on our infrastructure, the military. These are places where we have a different system. But in the elected offices it is a button you could we could talk about those. Like a case for something here or there this way or that.
But in the elected offices, there is no case to be made except for a citizen legislature or a citizen LED Rep A not Republic, but a representative government that people go and serve, and then they’re done. It’s not their time anymore. It’s time for someone else to come.
Well, the ruling class, the deep state. The establishment, whatever you want to call it, I’m gonna say the deep state for the rest of our time here together. The deep state does not let go very easily. And and this is what you need to know today.
When Donald Trump wins this fall, not if notice, I say when. And that’s not just hope. I I truly believe that that kind of landslide is coming. Also, I believe that we have to make it happen, but that’s a that’s a personal, you know, I I think that has to happen. But when Donald Trump wins this fall, the deep state must be Burned out of every nook and cranny of federal government. Now that is no easy task. Mind you, we are looking at a system that has entrenched itself not just over a few years – over decades, really probably over, you know, the better part of a century. We are looking at a system that has not only wound its tentacles into every area of government into many areas of our Life, but it has found a way to replicate itself, and it has found a way to ensure that even as we have a transition of power in our representative Republic, that it, the deep state, the ruling class supposed ruling class aspiring ruling class, that they stay the same. That that system protects itself from the natural term limiting and the natural turnover of power that our Republic gives us that our representative system gives us every two and four and six years.
And that is something that Donald Trump, when he wins, God willing in November, is going to have to deal with at new levels. We saw it in 2016. And I think that there are incredibly valuable lessons that must be learned from that first Trump transition.
Now this is spurred by a couple of things, a couple of articles this week. First of all, on a lighter note we saw that. Mitch McConnell this week announced his intention to remain in the Senate. You may have seen we talked about, he announced he was stepping down from Senate leadership. He’ll no longer be the Republican leader of the Senate to which we all said great. It’s time for new leadership, new blood. No, no, no, no, no, no. Mitch McConnell, who’s 82, by the way, intends to remain in the US Senate. Why, you ask? Probably so that he can continue to oppose conservatives and that he can, you know, do all kinds of things that are against the interests of the United States. Heaven forbid that he would leave, and I don’t know, Tom Massey or someone else from Kentucky could run, and then we’d have another, you know, a a compartment or not a compartment. We’d have a a partner for Rand Paul in the Senate from Kentucky that is worthy of Rand’s independence and principles. But no, no, no, no. Mitch McConnell is gonna stay. So that just. That’s just great. You see that? And I thought, you know, never mind. Then there there isn’t going to be a significant transfer of power inside Senate Republicans. Mitch McConnell may be officially stepping down as the GOP leader, but he’s not leaving the Senate. So there you go. They’re replicating themselves.
But Ed had a great article at AMAC, the Association of Mature American Citizens. There’s some really neat stuff going on over there. Even if it’s not something that you, you know, you want to join just yet, or maybe you don’t identify as needing to join, but you know that that’s that’s not my business that’s that’s up to you. But they have a great, their Newsline has a really great section that talks I mean you know across the economy, education, elections, national security. society.
Ed had a piece there this week at AMAC, AMAC.us, AMAC dot US. Pardon me, amac dot us, Trump Transition Should Anticipate Deep State Shenanigans, and Ed makes a fantastic case. This this worry of of the holdovers from one Administration to the next.
This isn’t anything new. I mean, this goes all the way back to his point, to the transition from John Adams. To Thomas Jefferson, that transfer of power was essentially one of the first times in human history that that this peaceful transition of power happened from one party to another, from 1 ideology or group to another. You know, moving from even Washington to Adams wasn’t as as fear loaded as the switch Was from Adams to Jefferson. This transition between two different political parties in America.
So it was definitely a a worry then and it is now even more of a worry. But here’s the deal. And and this just this blows my mind and and Ed brought this up. But I’ve talked about this before I think on the program here.
But I mean you know back then at that point at that juncture in in American history in 18 was it 1801. John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, the transition took place at that point. The federal government had fewer than 150 non military employees, 150, fewer than 150 employees were only just over. It was about 5.3 million citizens at that point. Well now and then, that’s roughly one federal employee per about 35 thousand citizens. Well, today we have two and a quarter million federal employees for just over 340 or so million citizens. That is one federal employee for every 152 Americans. I don’t know what, that feels like I should have a personal representative. Is that how that works, if there’s only 152, I should have someone that I call like my personal Rep in the federal government. I, you know, I feel like with how much I pay in taxes that that could be a possibility. Maybe you agree with me. I don’t know. I I feel like it.
But think about it. 2 and 200 or two and a quarter 2,250,000 federal employees. This is a huge behemoth of a of a thing to try to change over the transition of power from one party to another party from 1 ideology to another. What we saw in 2016 was was worse than any of the shenanigans before it. We remember a lot of the nastiness between the Clinton to the to the George W Bush administration. What happened to Trump in 2016 was worse. They carved out and isolated him from good voices and good advisers.
And make no mistake, now, in the last few years, as they’ve revealed even more of their hand in the last eight years, it will be even worse this time. We need some serious protections and precautions set up, and when he gets in there must be some serious Burning out of the infection that is the Deep State across our federal government. It’s gotta happen. There you go. That’s what you need to know.
Stick around. We got a couple of great guests. And of course, I’ll be back to wrap up the show. You don’t wanna miss any of it. ProAmericareport.com, PhyllisSchlafly.com. And I’ll see you right back. Here after the break on the Pro America Report.
