Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.: A(nother) Disinformation October Surprise is Coming

Well, I disagree.

   Not about the historical claims--about those, Jenkins is exactly right. 

   I just don't believe they'll try it again.

   But if they're losing...all bets are off.

   Jenkins is right, IMO, that we face two dark paths: Trump and the elite-left establishment. And, like Jenkins, I (currently, at least) think that the latter is more dangerous. 

   The first comment below the story is telling--many Democrats continue to deny the plain facts we have uncovered about Russia- and Laptop-gates. Go on Twitter and you'll soon enough find the same thing. Last night on Twitter I learned that, not only did Mueller not acquit Trump...he didn't even investigate the "collusion" charges! Didn't even! Investigate! Can you believe it? The things one can learn by reading leftists speaking their minds...

   But, somehow, though the collusion charges were never investigated...they were actually proven true! Mirabile dictu! 

   And Clinton and the Dems had nothing to do with fabricating evidence in Russiagate! All they did was commission opposition research...and then, innocently, credulously, pass it along...

   Like babes in the woods, those Dems.

   One almost feels sorry for them...wonders how they've survived this long...

   But...uh...don't forget...they were actually right all along and Trump is still a Russian "asset" "colluding" with Putin...and the more this is disproven...er...I mean...not disproven...the truer it becomes!

   Also, Biden has been proven innocent of money-laundering shenanigans!

   I didn't know half this stuff!

   You could teach a kind of applied epistemology course just on Russiagate. Or, if you insist on balance, you could throw in Iraqi WMDs to boot.

   But in politics, bizarre variations on skepticism abound.

   Here are things we know:

   Trump did not "collude" with the Rooskies.

   Russiagate was a Democrat dirty trick.

   Here's something we don't quite know...but it's a pretty safe bet:

   Biden and his family were running an influence-peddling operation. 

   But the left-wing echo chamber has it that the disproven things are proven...but for the nearly-proven thing, there is no evidence at all....

   Abject madness.

   Many conservatives worked hard to pretend that the WMD hypothesis was still alive, long past the point at which it was a dead issue. Not yet conclusively disproven! could have been their battle-cry. Every now and then there would be a rumor that some Americans had dug up a long-buried chlorine gas artillery shell, and some righties would come out of the woodwork to claim that this was proof of the predicate for the war. Absurd, of course. We didn't invade Iraq in order to find a couple-hundred pounds of chemical ordnance...

   Anyway.

   The truly daft faction of progressives is now so religiously devoted to Trump fantasies that they will never give them up. They're religious. It's like asking Christians to give up the virgin birth. They are no longer capable of evaluating their faith objectively.

   Oh, fuck it.

   What a tragic waste of the human spirit.

   I'm going to the gym.