Since Trump has entered the White House,
the Left has been spinning bizarre fantasies about how the Trump team is part
of some super-secret Russian conspiracy. You cannot turn on the television
without seeing a liberal nutter hooting “Russian hacking!” To date, no one has
bothered to explain what that phrase is supposed to mean. The implication is
that through some special magic, the Russians caused the voting machines to
register results in favor of Trump. They don’t come out and say it, but that’s
the game.
A big part of this lunacy is the fact that
the Left was sure that Trump could not win the election. It’s not that
they were sure they had the better choice. It was that they were completely
convinced that there were no circumstances where Trump could become
President. They were so sure, in fact, that they had all of official
Washington convinced of this as well. A month before the election there
was no one in either party talking about a Trump victory. In fact, the topic of
debate was the size and scope of the Clinton victory.
This belief was so pervasive, that both
parties spent the summer plotting how they were going to configure themselves
after the disaster. Team Clinton spent the summer figuring out how they could
use the landslide in order to steamroll the Republicans and enact their agenda.
The Republicans were similarly planning for the onslaught and how they could
somehow preserve themselves after the election. The day after the election, the
stunned looks on the faces of everyone in the political class made this
hilariously clear.
There’s
another aspect to this that has become abundantly clear over the last couple of
months. Both parties wanted to see Clinton win. The Republicans, at least the
leadership, liked the setup under Obama. They got to pose as rock-ribbed
conservatives fighting Obama, without ever having to do anything. Democrats
liked that Obama was just issuing executive orders and bypassing the
parliamentary process. The Washington ecosystem was at equilibrium as long as
everyone on both sides played their part.
The proof of this is the fact that the GOP has
no plans ready for the 2017 legislative session. They have been talking for
years about ObamaCare and now we know they never planned to do anything. The
same is true of taxes, which is the one thing Republicans like doing. They have
no plans for anything, not even something symbolic. They not only have no
plans, they are still staggering around in shock, not sure what they should be
doing. Suddenly nothing makes sense to the people inside the bubble and they
are scared.
In a world where the rules no longer apply,
it quickly becomes every man for himself and that’s what is happening in
Washington right now. The Left accusing Trump of colluding with the Russians is
not just a reckless political attack. It’s war on the very system of
governance. It’s the sort of thing that goes on when the political system is
breaking down. Trump’s charge that Obama was spying on his campaign makes
perfect sense in light of what see happening. The evidence of some sort of Nixonian skullduggery is
pretty strong.
Of course, in a world where the scrupulous
following of protocol is essential to maintaining the status quo, a breakdown
in the rules puts everyone at risk. That seems to be Trump’s game here with the
spying charges. The establishment has tossed out the rules in their effort to
attack him, so he is threatening to further bust up the system, which
works to his favor and to their disadvantage. it’s a foolish game the Left has
decided to play as they have much more to lose in a world without rules.
There’s
another aspect to this. Trump has fewer skeletons in his closet than any
president in generations. In Washington, that makes him a very dangerous man.
All of these guys have shady deals in their closet. All of them bend the rules
to reward themselves and their associates. No one says anything about it
because everyone is dirty. Washington is a lot like a corrupt police precinct,
where everyone is on the take so no one dares rat on anyone else. Trump’s
life is an open book so he does not have to play along.
That’s probably why he went nuclear over the
weekend. He’s looking around at a city full of crooked politicians calling for
investigations so he is turning the table and threatening to open the
investigation up to everything. Imagine Trump coming out and asking for a
special prosecutor to look into Obama, Clinton, the IRS people, the DOJ and
maybe even the FBI itself. There’s a lot of people in Washington with a lot to
hide and Trump certainly knows it, which is why he is going on the attack over
the tapping of his offices.
A long time ago I pointed out that Trump
was The Mule, the character from the Asimov novels. Trump is the
destroyer of worlds, not because he has some grand vision of the future
and wants to plow under the existing order to make room for his
utopia. He is the destroyer because the old order can only exist if Trump does
not exist. His rise to the White House is the nullification of the established
order. It’s why Washington is going for total war to destroy him. They see it
is a matter of survival.
It’s
probably too late. The Mule has arrived.
