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Democrats Are
Headed for a World of (Deserved) Hurt
By Roger L
Simon February 8, 2018
After years of
non-stop virtue signaling as the party of "truth, justice and
equality," the Democrats are slowly, inexorably being revealed to be the
reverse. They are being hoisted on the petard of their own moral
narcissism. It has made them blind.
So convinced of
their own righteousness were they that it allowed them to participate in, even
instigate, the subversion of our justice system to the extent of lying to and
deceiving a FISA court in the name of what they assumed was "good."
They did this in concert with people who claimed to be Republicans or
"independents" working for that system in the supposedly noble cause
of upending Donald Trump, before and after his election, but ended up
being the deluded agents of government corruption the likes of which we have
never seen in this country.
It comes down to
something as crude as this: Trump's a bad guy, therefore I'm a
good guy and can do or say anything I wish to destroy Trump. This is
moral narcissism taken to a pathological extreme.
Practically with
each passing day, as more and more largely arbitrary redactions are pried away
from documents that were deliberately hidden from public view in the first
place by endless stonewalling, the venality of their true motivations -- and of
their cohort's actions -- becomes more evident.
The
ramifications of that unmasking (note the word) will be more extensive than
expected and will reach into every aspect of our culture, even to the last
lines of liberal/progressive defense -- the media, entertainment and education.
The results won't go in a straight line -- they rarely do. And many will
remain true believers, no matter what. That's what true believers do.
Their defenders will also become increasingly shrill as the wagons continue to circle.
But the Democrats -- and I strongly suspect many of them are starting to
realize it (hence that shrillness) -- are headed for a world of hurt.
Meanwhile, the
only substantive collusion between the Russians and the U.S. is clearly on the
Democratic side. The Uranium One whistleblower spent three hours Thursday
speaking with staff of three congressional committees. This scandal is
under investigation again and much of it, we already know, is founded on facts
-- real money, millions, that exchanged hands while American uranium went into
Russian hands. More details should be emerging soon.
And, almost as
opera bouffe, it also emerged Thursday that Senate Intel ranking member Mark Warner was himself colluding with a Russian oligarch
in an attempt to get a secret interview with the notorious Christopher Steele.
In humiliating texts, Warner urged his contact to tell his oligarch buddy
to keep the negotiations on the down low because Mark didn't want a "paper
trail" if things went South. (Incredible that a senator could be so
clueless as to put that in a text in this day and age.) If Warner was so
concerned about an "interview," perhaps he should have asked to talk
with Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer, both of whom are undoubtedly lawyering
up but would have a considerable amount to say about the contents of various
dossiers. (In Hollywood, we call it the auteur theory.)
Trump's poll numbers are beginning to improve
-- and not just from tax reform. The public is beginning to sense something's
awry here, even those who do not pay close attention to all the Russia talk,
etc. And this is before the inspector general report on the Clinton
email investigation and who knows what else comes out in a month or two. IG Horowitz has already been responsible for surfacing the
Strzok-Page texts and quite possibly for the early departure of FBI Deputy
Director Andrew McGabe. See what I mean about a world of hurt?
Some Democrats who are not bought and paid
for know this. Notable among them is renowned Russia scholar and Nation
editor Stephen F. Cohen, who just appeared on Tucker Carlson's show with the
following exchange (via Real Clear Politics):
"Are you aware of any collusion
between the Trump campaign and the Russian government?" Carlson asked.
"No, none," Cohen answered.
"But, there are two documents that became the foundational sources for the
Kremlin-gate narrative. It was first the Steele dossier which surely informed
the so-called intelligence community assessment in January of 2017. We were
told that was the judgment of 17 intelligence agencies. It now turns out to
have been the judgment of no intelligence agency, just a few guys at the top.
So that's all that's ever been produced and it's not credible."
Cohen said the intel community used FISA
surveillance warrants for Carter Page and Paul Manafort to actually spy on
Donald Trump
"Why did they, for example, get a
warrant on Carter Page who on the very surface of it is no threat to American
national security and then on Paul Manafort?" Cohen asked. "We might
assume they did it because they thought these two men would be close, even in
the same room as Donald Trump and wanted to surveil him."
And where did
this idea of 17 intelligence agencies putatively working together but in reality
giving the imprimatur to a lie come from? Barack Obama, as we all know,
who initiated that approach at the very end of his term. So we further know
where all roads point
AG Jeff Sessions
has been mostly silent through all this. Some on the right have
complained about that. It's easy to understand why. We want justice
and we want it now, especially as the situation has become so obvious. Many
have already resigned or been sent to the FBI's version of
Siberia, but we would like to see them indicted.
But taking a step backward, if you really seek justice, it's best that the
attorney general remain in the background until the appropriate moment when the
investigation is complete. It's probably also smart to allow as many
parties as possible to testify on the record for the congressional committees
first. Get this all out in the open -- then put them in jail.
Roger L. Simon is an award-winning novelist, Academy
Award-nominated screenwriter and co-founder of PJ Media. His latest book
is I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is
Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn't Already. He tweets
@rogerlsimon.
They have much
to fear. They have to deal with ongoing congressional investigations from
Messrs. Johnson, Grassley, Goodlatte and Nunes, among others, that continue to
reveal information highly damaging to the Democrats, the FBI and the DOJ.
Unlike the missteps and hypocrisy from the Democratic side of these
investigations, in not a single instance has the information revealed by these
Republicans been factually disputed with success, despite endless spin.
This is because the Democrats are relying almost exclusively on dubious
leaks augmented by slavish regurgitation from media ideologues (see Michael
Isikoff and David Corn). The Republicans are relying on those actual
documents, most of which have to be extracted from the DOJ/FBI with legal
crowbars, but eventually surface. More are on the way, slowly but surely,
probably through summer and into the fall elections. The timing couldn't
be worse for Democrats.
AJ adds.
I do not expect the perpetrators to be tried let alone go to jail. How long have the Clintons been involved in shady deals? And what had it gotten them? Hundreds of millions.
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