A little electoral success for Anti-Trumps. It may or may not be significant. It may or may not make the Republicans’ effort at changing the income tax laws easier, harder or impossible. It certainly portends even more timely retirements of elected Republicans in both houses of Congress. That may or may not be good news for Democrats.
Can you imagine a man who pretends to know things he doesn’t, claims titles he hasn’t earned, likes squiring around attractive young women, holds clandestine meetings to talk about Russia-linked spying and generally purports to be a figure out of some James Bond novel? Of course, in this day of alternative facts and bloviating twitterers, such a character is emblematic of at least one major political syndicate. You guessed it, orange is the new orange, the color of scandal, and now the above described professor has scarpered. Click here for a real life, shudda-guessed mystery. Where is he now?
This is not a unique time in American history. It is just the latest severe crisis in a nation always preparing for wide swings from good times to bad. Why “now more than ever” is just self-aggrandizing BS in this age in which the U.S. is once again a scourge to civilization…but don’t think this is new. Genocide of the American Indian over two centuries… The Great Depression…slavery and the need for a civil war to end it…continued racism fostered by white supremacy preachings across the Old Confederacy and wherever like-minded whites gather…the Vietnam War based on lies and hollow political paranoia [did we really imagine Ho Chi Minh attacking Singapore and Melbourne?]…the inability of an atheist to openly run for political office [the last great American taboo]…the lack of a humane medical and eldercare system…the widely-held self-destructive dislike of trains and other mass transit that would ease traffic and greenhouse gas problems…the pathological need for ever more guns and ever more deadly ones with ever larger magazines of ammo to kill ever more people. That is one kind of inflation the government should be concerned about, but isn’t. And we have long been a nation of corruption in government and business from Big City machines to the use of federal power or poorly regulated corporations…all invites to do dirty deeds: Teapot Dome, Grant Administration, Iran-Contra, Watergate, Joe McCarthy’s commie-shaming, J. Edgar Hoover’s slimy blackmailing of pols of all stripes and pecadillos while he lived a closeted life, Drexel-Burnham, Enron, Bernie Maddow, Purdue Pharma’s opioids, Big Tobacco, DDT, leaded gasoline, neo-nicotinoids, Franklin Savings & Loan, the 2008 financial meltdown and on and on and on.
Here’s a nice little lecture on not pretending this is such an unusual time in America.
Jared the real estate mogul, son-in-law and princeling, and international affairs genius has problems unrelated to anything Russian. Were there nefarious doings in Maryland? Didn’t he know that Maryland is not run by Republicans?
All I can say for sure: the stock market is no indication of the future health of this nation. How many Trumpian syncophants will run for the hills, and how soon? As the indictments accumulate who will stand by the captain as he runs the ship into the iceberg of anger that is now at the heart of American polity…found all across the spectrum of political opinions?
Veblen21 