Booman wrote a fine, well-reasoned post today, Team Trump at the Turn of the Year. It is a mainstream, centrist Dem look at the state of the disunion as of mid-February, 20017.
Here is my own non-partisan/anti-partisan view of the matter.
“Team Trump” is composed of minor leaguers.
They are now totally out of their depth.
Read on.
Long story short?
Sure.
The election isn’t over.
The Deep State forces that supported Clinton are pursuing victory by any means necessary.
They are using the already totally discredited NY Times, WAPO (See the runup to the Iraq War for all you need to know on those accounts.) and whatever other media they control to…if not take Trump down…at the very least block him on every possible level.
Is this a good thing?
Maybe.
Good, bad or simply politics as usual, they are doing a fine job of it so far. Trump now is totally out of his element. His closest advisers…Bannon, Miller, Kushner etc…are rank amateurs on this level of DC power politics and his whole crew (save for perhaps Gen. Mattis, who is notably absent from this story so far) has suddenly found itself stranded up Shit’s Creek without a paddle or even a canoe. Trump cannot order the intelligence systems to cease and desist because…because they are totally hostile entities who are involved in a political war with his administration as the major enemy. Duh!!! He could fire everybody within reach and it would do no good whatsoever, because changing the bosses would be like trying to put a new coat of whitewash on an almost totally hostile army of serious, longterm pros.
He is totally stymied, looks like to me.
Soon other shoes will begin to drop.
Leaked accusations of collusion regarding others in his circle, creeping ever closer to The Boss.
Watch.
A classic intelligence op on the Watergate scale is in progress.
Watch.
As I asked before…is this a good thing?
If you think Trump means to bring the country to its knees before almighty Russia?
Yes, it is.
If you think that the country has already been brought to its knees by the globalist, corporatist Deep State…not so much.
We shall see how the cards fall, soon enough.
If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on Trump’s enemies, right now.
The amateur Dems fucked up royally during the election, but the pros mean business now.
They are once again in control, and Amateur Hour is over.
Trump doesn’t really know what’s hit him yet, but he’s gonna find out.
Soon.
Watch.
Watch.
AG
P.S. However…Trump will continue to fight. He’s only got one speed. That’s what the pros are counting on. They are going to curveball him right out of office.
Watch.
P.P.S. I had a vision yesterday. Trump gets on his plane in DC…ostensibly to go to Mar-a-Lago…but the plane turns north and Great Circles like a bat out of hell, straight for Moscow.
Would U.S. forces shoot him down or be glad to get rid of him?
Hmmmmm…
Update [2017-2-17 9:26:49 by Arthur Gilroy]: Thanks to Oui, who posted the following Democracy Now interview with Glenn Greenwald on another post of mine. Greenwald raises some interesting points, one of which involves the presidential power to declare those spooky so-called “transcripts” of Russian conversations with Trumpish figures no longer classified. This puts Trump in a very difficult position. If he does this, he is essentially “leaking” classified information much as did Julian Assange and Edward Snowden…people that he has demonized repeatedly. If he doesn’t, the drip drip drip of a thousand anonymous leaks will eventually topple…or at the very least totally cripple…his presidency.
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. He’s been playing checkers; his enemies are playing chess. And they are grandmasters at the game.
Checkmate.
