“These experiences have given Patel a worldview that I think is best defined as paranoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patel believes that foreign enemies \u2014 ranging from China to Iran to drug cartels \u2014 are doing their best to infiltrate the United States and wreak havoc on its homeland. Only Trump has the strength and the fortitude to stand up against these enemies and defend American allies like Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Democrats, he believes, do not just disagree with Trump on how to handle these threats: They are actively aligned with America\u2019s enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In one War Room<\/em> segment, for example, Patel hosted a discredited China \u201cexpert\u201d<\/a> named Gordon Chang to warn that China was \u201cplanning an attack on our facilities on our soil.\u201d But it\u2019s worse than that, Chang argued: China had installed Joe Biden as the president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey were actually able to cast the decisive vote in 2020,\u201d Chang told Patel, claiming without evidence that China \u201cpoured money into Joe Biden\u2019s campaign\u201d through the Democratic crowdfunding platform ActBlue. Patel\u2019s response was not skepticism but credulity: \u201cI hope people are paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Democrats are not merely unwitting cat\u2019s paws of foreign powers, per Patel: They are nefarious actors aiming to tear down American democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of Patel\u2019s favorite phrases, one that he uses again and again on Bannon\u2019s show, is \u201ctwo-tiered system of justice.\u201d In his mind, federal law enforcement employs two distinct standards \u2014 one for \u201cthe deep state\u2019s\u201d friends and another for its enemies. Its allies, like the Bidens, receive only limited and superficial scrutiny, while its enemies are constantly harassed and persecuted. The four prosecutions of Trump, for Patel, are not legitimate inquiries into wrongdoing and abuses of power, but rather agents of a corrupt system lashing out at the one man who threatens their grip on America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For this reason, Patel has an enemies list \u2014 literally. His book Government Gangsters<\/em>, which he is constantly hawking on War Room<\/em>, contains an appendix<\/a> listing dozens of names that comprise the \u201cexecutive branch deep state.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n “he is constantly proposing schemes \u2014 like Congress arresting Garland \u2014 that amount to efforts to criminalize political disagreements. This includes proposals<\/a> to investigate prominent Democrats and even prosecute journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYes, we\u2019re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections \u2014 we\u2019re going to come after you,\u201d he said in a guest appearance<\/a> on War Room<\/em> last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhether it\u2019s criminally or civilly, we\u2019ll figure that out.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n