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On Thursday, former president Obama delivered a 4,756-word speech purporting to deal with “pluralism,” which “means that in a democracy, we all have to find a way to live alongside individuals and groups who are different than us.” On the other hand:

What happens when the other side has repeatedly and abundantly made clear they’re not interested in playing by the rules? It’s a problem. And when that happens, we fight for what we believe in. There are going to be times, potentially, when one side tries to stack the deck and lock in a permanent grip on power, either by actively suppressing votes, or politicizing the armed forces, or using the judiciary or criminal justice system to go after their opponents. And in those circumstances, pluralism does not call for us to just stand back and say ‘well, I’m not sure, that’s okay’. In those circumstances, a line has been crossed and we have to stand firm and speak out and organize and mobilize as forcefully as we can.

As Scott notes, “he doesn’t seem to be talking about his own administration or that of President Biden,” which was really his third term. As David Samuels noted last year in “The Obama Factor,” the composite character was still running the country and “helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now.”

As Thomas Sowell said of Lani Guinier, the people don’t need a half-white politician living in Martha’s Vineyard telling them about “pluralism” or anything else.  On the other hand, the Trump administration must take seriously Obama’s threat to “organize and mobilize as forcefully as we can.” Remember that in 2020 he said “to bring about real change, we both have to highlight a problem and make people in power uncomfortable.” That mobilized Black Lives Matter and Antifa to mount a campaign of destruction and death across the country. With Trump in power, these militias could easily be unleashed again. So could powerful forces in the deep state.

According to former CIA analyst John A. Gentry, author of  Neutering the CIA: Why U.S. Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences, the “intelligence community” forces that triggered the attack on Trump, “remain intact, available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.” Serious candidate Trump has now been elected president.

Obama’s pick for CIA boss was John Brennan, a Gus Hall voter who never should have been hired in the first place. In 2020, Brennan authored Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies at Home and Abroad. Note the order, and recall that in 2016 the outgoing president deployed the FBI, DOJ and intel forces against candidate and president Trump. In 2020, Brennan was one of the 51 “intelligence community” veterans contending that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” which they all knew was false.

John Ratcliffe, a former director of national intelligence and Trump’s pick to head the CIA, is surely on to them. In the deep state and in the streets, we’ll have to see what happens.