The Comey Divide
10th May 2017
Read it.
I had an interesting conversation last night with a fellow critic of President Trump’s. He was irritated that I had insisted that those watching the Comey situation remain “skeptical but not hysterical.” Now, he said, is “the time to be hysterical.” I’ve been trying to understand why he was so vexed, and I think I’ve worked it out: He has assumed — and built into his thinking — that there is a huge Russia scandal in the background of all this. And I haven’t. I certainly think it’s possible that this goes deeper, and I remain as mistrustful toward this administration as I ever was. But I’m not going to credit theories about Watergate-level conspiracies without evidence, and my friend is. That’s the line that divides us.
The problem is that the anti-Trumpers have their entire souls invested in the notion that Trump Is So Bad There Must Be A Skeleton Somewhere, so even though there is no evidence of anything that just means that they have to look harder. Because it’s got to be there, and what do you mean there’s no evidence? Are you incompetent or something? We know there’s something there, because it’s got to be there, it’s just got to, so get off your lazy white ass and find it!
The major difference between ‘progressives’ and Real People is that Real People believe it when they see it, and ‘progressives see it when they believe it. It’s ‘another Watergate’ because it has to be. Trump is the New Nixon because he has to be (just as he has to be the New Hitler). This is a Constitutional Crisis because it has to be. Trump is on his way to a dictatorship because he has to be. I keep waiting for some MSNBC report on how there are secret concentration camps going up inside Mar a Lago, you just can’t see them because Trump Is That Sneaky.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt; it’s the lifeblood of the looney Left. I’m running out of popcorn….