Luongo: Civil War

After spending hours writing, I finished up, published, and then read Tom Luongo’s

Indicting Trump is the End of US Politics

He pretty much hits the nail on the head. For the last few days, while referring readers to people like Jonathan Turley or Alan Dershowitz for legal analysis, I’ve been repeating that the legal issues simply don’t interest me, because—in the first, last, and middle analysis—this simply isn’t about Trump. But TL says it a bit more elegantly than that. Here’s the core of what he does say:

Because indicting Trump for any of these petty things is nothing less than the end of politics and a declaration of civil war.

Davos through the Democrats have been running a culture war for decades to stamp out the past. It is quite Leninist. Turley and others have focused on it’s ‘just not done’ to indict a President, especially something as irrelevant as paying hush money to Stormy Daniels.

But, ‘just not done’ is exactly the thing being indicted here, not Trump. Trump is just the fulcrum on which all of this rests.

This is just the politics of envy taken to its ultimate conclusion. Racism, sexism, ageism, transphobia, LGBTQT+BBQ Sauce rights are all the same political position. They are all about tearing down the old institutional order.

Again, this works well with Mercouris’ comparison to the Russian Revolution. Tearing down the old order seems easy and satisfying to people whose lives are consumed with “unrest”. Then comes the tricky part for the rest of us. Getting back to normal. How long did that take the Russians?