Newbies may not know who J. Orlin Grabbe was. A guy from the previous generation, he died in 2008.

He appears to have had the pulse of the deep state in the 1980's, and if you look into what was going on then, it'll give you new insight into how we got to where we are today.

Someone has archived his research here. I've been leafing through it and it's a gold mine of information.

https://www.memresearch.org/grabbe/