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Aftermath
(No, this won’t be a piece about the Rolling Stones.)
Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress yesterday utterly baffled unbiased onlookers who paid it any attention. The supposed head of the “Russian collusion” investigation into the 2016 presidential election didn’t appear to know anything about...well, about anything. He waffled. He evaded. He refused to answer many questions. He appeared totally uninformed about what was in the report that was produced by his investigators and has been tagged with his name. Anyone truly dispassionate about the enveloping controversy would have been left scratching his head and asking himself “What was that supposed to be about?”
Congressional Democrats were displeased, to say the very least. They’d hoped for the Big One, the missile that would finally bring down the Trump Ascendancy. The Mueller Report had given them nothing. Perhaps Mueller himself could supply the missing ingredients. As Mollie Hemingway put it, they’d hoped that “the movie would be better than the book.”
But all Mueller’s appearance did was to suggest that the special counsel appointed for this supposedly critical investigation was detached from his own supposed investigation. Indeed, at several points his testimony suggested that he’s become detached from reality.
And it’s not merely the Democrats who are disappointed:
- NYT’s Charles Blow: Dems Turning Trump into ‘Folk Hero’ by Not Impeaching
- MSNBC’s Matthews: It Will Be ‘Second Term or Prison Term’ for Trump
- MSNBC Analyst Bash: Mueller ‘Sucked the Life Out of the Report’
- Chris Wallace: Mueller Hearing Is ‘a Disaster’ for Democrats and Mueller’s Reputation
Those four links cost me all of ninety seconds at Breitbart. I could provide more, but I think my Gentle Readers will get the point.
I’m unsure about just what we’re seeing here. I don’t think “partisanry” is an adequate description. There’s too much unconcealed hatred and too much unbottled rage on display. Is this what we see in the final stages of the disintegration of a major political party? Did something like this happen to the Whigs?
I think we’d have to see political prisoners thrown into giant pits of vipers on live TV to get any more lurid – or horrifying. As public spectacles are rated, this one is right up there with the slaughters of Christians by wild animals in the old Roman Coliseum. It’s definitely not laugh material, regardless of whatever quantity of Right-inclined laughter we might hear.
The Left is desperate. Desperate people do desperate things. They stake it all on long odds. They grasp at their sole remaining chance to prevail, however slender, and refuse to look past it. And if possible, they shave the dice, tilt the pinball machine, bribe the refs.
This is the hour of maximum danger.
Recall how many Left-inclined commentators and spokesmen have worried publicly about the outbreak of a second civil war, fomented by us in the Right. Leftist mouthpieces have a history of “worrying” about what the Right will do, while (or just before) the Left does that exact thing. That is where the Republic stands as you read this.
There’s no need for me to wrap hundreds more words around this matter. The writing on the wall is large enough to be read from orbit.
Be watchful. Be prepared. Know what you’re willing to do, should it come to the rub. Make sure those around you know it too.
And pray.
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