CFR Takes Aim (Again) at “Dangerous” Trump

The globalist Establishment and its Deep State operatives, as preeminently represented by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), hate President Donald Trump and his (professed) “America First” agenda. “In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as ‘America First.’” So stated Admiral Chester Ward, former judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy and for many years a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. However, after realizing the prevalent subversive attitudes permeating the organization, Admiral Ward left the Council and became one of its chief critics. According to Ward, the goal of the CFR is the “submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government.” He noted that “this lust to surrender the sovereignty and independence of the United States is pervasive throughout most of the membership.”

Anti-Trump

Thus, the latest salvo (November 12) to appear in the CFR’s flagship journal Foreign Affairs: “Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously: How His Second Term Is Reshaping America and the World.”

The author is Peter D. Feaver, “Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University, where he leads the Program in American Grand Strategy.” He is an advisor at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a leftist think tank of CFR Democrats from the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations. He has also written for Lawfare, the viciously partisan anti-Trump blog of Deep Stater Benjamin Wittes (The Brookings Institution, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and buddy of ex-FBI chief James Comey). A feverishly faithful factotum of the Uniparty, Feaver served on the National Security Council of both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Professor Feaver has authored or co-authored a dozen articles for Foreign Affairs over the past few years criticizing Trump and defending the anti-Trump “professionals” of the CFR, otherwise known as “the Blob.”

In his latest offering in Foreign Affairs, Professor Feaver writes:

Domestically, for instance, Trump has unsettled delicate equilibriums critical to both civil-military relations and constitutional checks and balances. In doing so, he has raised troubling questions about the future of the constitutional system. Yet the trends at home are not irreversible. If Congress rediscovers a zeal for protecting legislative prerogatives and exercising rigorous oversight of the executive branch, the rest of Trump’s second term could diverge sharply from the first year. And if Democrats win one or both chambers of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections, the checks on the president would likely revert to historical norms — perhaps even returning to the congressional assertiveness of the immediate post-Watergate era.

Democrats Safeguarding the Constitution?

Oh yes, the CFR “Wise Men” (as they refer to themselves) are so concerned with “troubling questions about the future of the constitutional system.” And Democratic victories in 2026 resulting in Democrats controlling Congress would safeguard our constitutional system, right? Because Democrats (Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Hakim Jeffries, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, et al.) are such righteous defenders of the Constitution and guardians of “legislative prerogatives” against executive usurpation. (If we overlook, that is, a century of Democrats’ supine abdication before presidential encroachment stretching back from Biden, Obama, and Clinton to Carter, LBJ, and JFK, all the way to FDR and Woodrow Wilson.)

As it so happens, the CFR celebrated its 100th birthday in 2021 (see “CFR: Still the Power Behind the Throne”), which, unfortunately, marked a century of betrayal and devastating loss for our nation. The CFR’s hand in all of this was foreshadowed early on. As I noted in my 1992 book Global Tyranny … Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order (pages 104-105), only seven years after its founding, the CFR was strenuously arguing for stripping away the congressional checks and balances provided in the Constitution. The CFR globalists were (and are) especially keen on abusing the treaty power of the U.S. Senate to create “international law” that would override the Constitution and national sovereignty. This scheme was brazenly put forth in the Council’s 1928 report Survey of American Foreign Relations. And over the past century, the CFR cabal has continued down this subversive path.

Thus, the CFR’s supposed concern for constitutional protocol, as expressed by Feaver, is more of the rank hypocrisy we have come to expect from the organization.

Unconstitutional Actions From Both Parties

Here at The New American we are not oblivious to encroachments and usurpations by President Trump and Republicans. Indeed, we are often criticized by MAGA supporters for opposing unconstitutional actions or proposals of President Trump or Republican leadership in Congress. However, we must first and foremost stand by the Constitution, regardless of party labels or partisan preferences. While we applaud the Trump/MAGA break from the internationalist Deep State, many of President Trump’s policies and initiatives, especially in the digital realm, are centralizing and concentrating power in the federal government in ways that should alarm all freedom-minded Americans.