Yes it's been awhile but better late than never.
It’s interesting
that as the sock that is Trump’s Russian connections continues to unravel there
are more than a few folks self-identified as being on the left (there doesn’t
seem to be a test you just say I’m on the left and that’s it) who continue to
cast aspersions on the validity of the Mueller investigation either that there’s
nothing there or that the Democratic Party needs to stop fixating on it. That
this is the same advice given to the Democratic party by such lefty stalwarts
as David Brooks makes one suspicious of just how good the advice is but that is
for another time. The most recent version is by one mister Jonathan Chait in NY Magazine Why Are
So Many Leftists Skeptical of the Russia Investigation? This is taken down with
typical brilliance by Brother Driftglass.
May I suggest
a reason this kind of gibberish exists and why it’s still printed?
There is a
moment in Tinker Tailor Solider Spy (you have Science Fiction I have spy
novels) where George Smiley talks about a manoeuver by the Mole that “made
everyone wrong who was right” If, again
nothing has been proven but lord it’s pretty suspicious since every closet the
Feds open has a Russian in it, if the turns out that the only reason Donald
Trump is president is because the Russians with varying degrees of assistance from
the national and local GOP organizations and groups like the NRA hacked the
vote so that Trump won by kicking people off the rolls and by actual gimmicking
of the vote totals then Chait and the rest’s narrative is shattered
The
narrative that it’s all Hillary’s fault she lost, that she fixed the primaries,
that she as a neoliberal tool, that she was an awful candidate, and only if the DNC had listened to them, then,
then would they have won the election. All this marvelous preening and
indulgence in Clinton bashing would end if it turned out She was robbed and
they would look like fools. And that more than anything else they fear. They
worship at the shrine of the savvy and this would make them look absurd.
They can’t
have that so the urge is to bend over backwards until the top of their heads
hit the floor is massive. They pretend that there are either reasons to doubt
the investigation or that the Democratic Party shouldn’t pay that much
attention to it.
The phase
useful idiot comes to mind here. They
don’t seem to be actually tools of Putin (Greenwald notwithstanding) but as
they try to protect their egos they end up protecting Trump and Putin.
To again quote
Tinker Tailor “it would be beautiful in another context."
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