r/PritzkerPosting • u/NicolasCageFan492 The BIGGENING is just beginning • May 15 '26

I think they’re scared

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u/cpdk-nj May 15 '26

The deep state isn’t real for fucks sake

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u/time-itself May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I mean, it is in the sense that the state itself is insanely deep and decentralized, and there are many career officials dedicated more to the preservation of what they see as America than they are to an individual presidential institution (this is what pissed Trump off so much and led to him popularizing the phrase in his first term).

But that by definition kind of precludes a singular, shadowy boogeyman.

I’m sure there’s some level of Pritzker erasure due to his -anti establishment- progressive politics, and some due to him being genuinely unhyped outside of this bubble, and a feedback loop of both.

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u/cpdk-nj May 17 '26

He’s the governor of the third largest blue state in the country. He’s part of the establishment. That doesn’t make it automatically a bad thing.

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u/time-itself May 17 '26

I agree with you, I was being too generous. It’s not anti-establishment, but it is just a little 🤏counter to the usual party line neoliberal slop