Strange Days Indeed

Trump's a loose cannon who refuses to stop making unproven, damaging claims about electoral fraud. OTOH, he's turned out to be crucially right about the deep state and the elite's corrupt grip on power. He is now being prosecuted from every direction--in part because some of the charges seem to actually have merit, in part because the Democratic elite is happy to use any means at its disposal to eliminate a hated political rival. A faction willing to perpetrate Russiagate will do just about anything.

   Another Trumpian insight: "the uniparty." Elite Republicans are the handmaidens of the Democrats.

   It has become clearer and clearer that the Bidens are influence-peddlers. Trump was right to investigate their Ukraine ties. Therefore the first impeachment was even more unjust than was clear at the time. The Democrat elites are so powerful that a sitting President was impeached for investigating their grift.

   So we have a wild man bullshitter/truth-teller who has blown the lid off a degree of rottenness in government beyond what most of us imagined. Said wild man is himself flawed to such an extent that, in less desperate times, most of us would not even consider voting for him for dog catcher. And yet now, he seems to be the lesser evil--and perhaps by far.

   Which is not yet to mention the fact that our most powerful political faction/party has completely lost its mind. It is now possessed by a totalitarian quasi-religious ideology that seeks to suppress and control speech, inquiry and thought in general. Its vanguard routinely hands down ludicrous falsehoods that are dutifully believed, propagated and institutionalized by its priesthood and foot soldiers--men are women, the brainwashing and sexual mutilation of children is a moral obligation, the nation is made of racism, whites are racist by definition, racist police are gunning down black Americans in the streets with impunity, the world will end if we do not diligently set about "dismantling" capitalism and abandoning prosperity, COVID is a terrifying plague that justifies...well...just about anything the elites say it does. 

   Unhinged as Trump often seems, he is practically the voice of sweet reason compared to the contemporary progressive left.

   And overlaying all this is the fact that Trump has been right over and over again, even when what he said seemed beyond the pale.. Though I doubt it, it will not exactly be the most astonishing thing in the world if he ends up being righter about the election than we think.

   One of the most unnerving things about all this to me is that so many people in my social world still committed to the left--seem almost entirely unshaken by its unhinging. Trump's crackpottery earns their outrage--rightly so, to some extent. But the far greater madness on the left seems barely to register as a blip on their radar.

   But I suppose the aspect of the madness that seems most salient to me today is: a viable (if radically flawed) Presidential candidate is, apparently, being torpedoed by elite-left lawfare...while the DOJ apparently protects the sitting President's crime family...

   This really is banana-republic-grade lunacy.