The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy<\/b><\/p>\n
Who knew the Trump White House was infested with libruls?<\/b><\/p>\n
November 25th<\/sup> 2018<\/i><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been hearing chatter lately about a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. David Bossie, who was one of Paul Manafort\u2019s wing men during the campaign, told an increasingly strained Chris Wallace, \u201cThere is a vast left-wing conspiracy that has been going on since the president won this election. All throughout the transition and through his first two years.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019ll get back to that facet of the VLWC in a moment. Bossie went on to say, \u201cA vast left-wing conspiracy, similar to what Hillary Clinton used [to say] about a right-wing conspiracy.\u201d Chris Wallace interrupted him, auto-saying, \u201cWhich incidentally didn\u2019t turn out to be true,\u201d since they\u2019ve been denying the existence of such since about 1991. Even before Hillary pointed out the deliberate machinations of the right to undermine and defame the Clintons.<\/p>\n Bossie wasn\u2019t buying it. Saying the VRWC really existed, he said, \u201cChris, there was an effort by the conservative movement to undermine President Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, duh.<\/p>\n So let\u2019s get back to the VLWC. There\u2019s absolutely no doubt that liberals and leftists have opposed Trump since he announced he was running in 2015. It goes by many names: The Democratic Party, The Resistance, and so on. After three years of being somewhat ineffectual in their opposition to Pissmop, they finally landed a damaging blow on November 6th<\/sup> with a gigantic \u201cblue wave\u201d vote.<\/p>\n Prior to that, about the only thing we managed to do was to annoy Trump, who was in high dungeon over the fact that members of the opposition party might oppose him, or traitors to America who don\u2019t like fascists and racists. We had absolutely zero luck in shaming GOP officials into trying to stop him before he wrecked the country, and even less luck in budging the polls further away from Trump. (His approval is locked at 41%, +\/- 3%).<\/p>\n Trump has taken considerable damage already: his business brand, such as it was, is ruined beyond repair. While still capable of doing considerable damage through his sheer genius at mismanagement, he\u2019s lost the House, so he isn\u2019t going to get legislation to the still-barely-Republican Senate, and support in the upper house is eroding rapidly now that the writing is on the wall.<\/p>\n There\u2019s three primary sources to the most damage Trump has taken, and none of those sources qualify as \u2018left wing\u2019.<\/p>\n First, there\u2019s the personnel in all the agencies he\u2019s alienated. Right wingers love to talk about how agencies dealing with education, welfare, science, etc., are all \u201cliberal\u201d but the fact is that while they tend to favor Democratic policies by overwhelming margins, it isn\u2019t because they are liberal. It because for decades Republicans have been dumping on them, calling them dupes, liars, anti-American and anti-God for simply stating easily-proven facts.<\/p>\n Hint to Republicans: when you spend half a century pissing on someone\u2019s head because what they know doesn\u2019t jibe with what you want to believe, don\u2019t expect them to believe you when you tell them it\u2019s holy water\u2014and don\u2019t expect them to vote for you. Trump took that on-going abuse and turned it up a notch.<\/p>\n That he managed to alienate the intelligence agencies took real talent. These are the children of J. Edger Hoover and Wild Bill Donovan, and they\u2019re about as liberal as Genghis Khan.<\/p>\n Yes, there are a lot of people in government who hate Trump. But it\u2019s not because they are Democrats; it\u2019s because they hate Trump, and he\u2019s given them a lot of reasons for doing so.<\/p>\n The Mueller Investigation: It wouldn\u2019t even exist if he hadn\u2019t vindictively fired the best friend he had in all of government, the man who single-handed sank Clinton\u2019s campaign in the final two weeks, James Comey. Comey is no left winger. But it brought about the investigation, run by a Republican, Robert Mueller, and supervised until last week by another Republican, Rod Rosenstein.<\/p>\n All the People in the Know expect Mueller to pounce this coming week, and even if the appointment of the Toilet Heist Master to oversee Mueller pressured Mueller, the results should be damning. Given that Trump\u2019s Congressional support amounts to \u201cCan this crazy son of a bitch help me get what I want\u201d the sliderule governing that support is going to shift heavily against Trump.<\/p>\n White House Staff: Ever had a boss like Trump? I have, once. Weak, authoritarian, vicious. Back stabbing. Plays people off against one another, pays no attention to rights and responsibilities of either his subordinates or himself, and demands absolute loyalty from the people he is abusing. Workplace is a nightmare where the ability to betray is the only currency of the place. Working for someone like Trump is a nightmare. I know, because I have. I got out, and saved my sanity.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a pretty safe bet that the white house staff aren\u2019t secret left-wingers, unless you count the cooking staff and the gardeners. Especially the guy who does the roses; the rose is the symbol of the Democratic Socialists of America, you know. It\u2019s a thorny issue.<\/p>\n Most of Trump\u2019s flunkies are absolutely hateful people, partly because those are the only types willing to work for him, and party because they have to front for a hateful person. The public despises them, but many people also pity them.<\/p>\n Some of the most egregious partisans are back-pedaling furiously, trying to save their (generally worthless) asses: Frank Luntz on on Faux News the other day, devoutly declaring he couldn\u2019t call himself a Republican any longer. No blinding lights and fluttering angels to this particular self-apotheosis, though: Luntz went on to say it was both parties, really. He didn\u2019t get enlightenment: he just wants to be standing outside the blast zone when it goes off. That Luntz, always with the liberal sensitivities!<\/p>\n Not to disparage the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: we have been first-most, and steadfast in our opposition to Trump and what he represents. But we weren\u2019t the ones who damaged him. He damaged the people who supported him, including members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, and they whipped around and bit him on the ass. They are the ones that did the real damage.<\/p>\n In the end, as always, Donald Trump\u2019s greatest enemy is Donald Trump.<\/p>\n I suppose we should be grateful for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy Who knew the Trump White House was infested with libruls? November 25th 2018 I\u2019ve been hearing chatter lately about a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. David Bossie, who was one of Paul Manafort\u2019s wing men during the campaign, told an increasingly strained Chris Wallace, \u201cThere is a vast left-wing conspiracy that has been … <\/p>\n