“Trump-Russia Collusion”

You know what this whole thing feels like to me?  A textbook CIA AgitProp operation.  It’s win/win for them.  They get the entire political Left acting as if the CIA has a long history of unfailing patriotism, truth telling, deference to the law, and accountability. AND they get to call Trump a traitor in public, which is a word which has historically meant NOTHING to the Left–they don’t like this country to begin with–but which resonates with political conservatives.  They are shaking the tree, to see what  falls out.  It acts as a synchronizing signal for the pools of little fishes, with their little fish brains, and as a reason to leave for Republicans.

But as I keep saying, a failed propaganda operation, when opposed vigorously, as this one has been, risks losing ground overall.  Some people WANT to be lied to.  Those people are reliable.  But most Americans instinctively hate liars, and once you are on that list, your capacity to tell the Big Lie is at an end.

And this “Trump is a traitor” meme is one of the biggest Big Lie’s I’ve seen in my lifetime.  It is up there with the official NIST report on 9/11, but with the difference that there is really no official reason to grant this lie credibility, other than being a gullible dupe.  NIST is at least composed of scientists, who on their own account used science to reach their conclusions, even when this proved a manifest lie upon even superficial consideration.

I’m bullish on Trump.  They are pulling out the stops, but nothing is working.  The American people don’t care about Russia.  And more and more are getting tired of the relentless shrieking.

As I was telling some guy on the internet, how does THIS call for impeachment differ from the one you were making last week, last month, and last year?  You don’t HAVE a reason to remove Trump from office, other than that you don’t like what you know about his politics, and you don’t like him as a person.  But that’s not how our system works.  In fact, it betrays a fundamental contempt for the will of the people, as expressed by popular voting within our Constitutional framework. It betrays autocratic biases, arrogance, and a belief that, in the end, might makes right.  Nothing more antithetical to the American spirit could be imagined.