Applecart Operators Want Applecart Left Undisturbed

     It stands to reason that men who profit heavily from a certain state of affairs would want to preserve that state of affairs against anything that might disturb it. It’s equally reasonable that when such men detect a threat to their applecart, they’ll do whatever they can to quell, avert, or dampen that threat before apples can start to spill into the gutters. And so, by way of the invaluable “sundance,” we have this:

     While it might seem frustrating to see republicans and conservatives demanding that President Trump stop talking about the greatest act of sedition and usurpation, within our Constitutional Republic in the history of our nation, this espousal by Andrew McCarthy is factually a very wide-spread opinion within the DC beltway:

     Take the intents in their best possible light, and the basic premise is that no-one cares about the abuses of power that took place.

     Sundance and I would disagree with that premise:

     How does the office of a U.S. president; and more importantly the republic itself; survive a coordinated coup effort involving all three branches of government; while simultaneously those in charge of exposing the corruption fear the scale is too damaging for them to reveal?

     The anti-Trump coup revealed a staggering fault in the Republic. It demands to be addressed publicly, through the justice system – if it can still be trusted to do so – and with appropriate penalties meted out to the participants regardless of their altitude in federal service. Some of the conspirators, indeed, deserve to be tried for treason, the penalty for which can be as severe as death.

     Didn’t we do that to the Watergate burglars and the planners that dispatched them? Didn’t we oust a sitting president for trying to “fix the case?” How, then, could we permit this far greater offense against the Constitution and the people of the United States to go unpunished?

     The very suggestion that the Russia hoax not be treated with the gravest seriousness – apparently, the attitude being taken by McCarthy, Lowry, and other Beltway insiders – implies that there are two standards of justice in this country: one for us hoi polloi, the other, far more lenient one for the politically elevated and well connected. Even a major profiteer from “insidership” should be able to sense the magnitude of the threat this poses to the American polity. If he wants any portion of the system that’s fattened him to survive, he should be screaming for justice to be done. If justice is not done, far too many people will decide that there is no law as Americans have always understood it.

     Can you envision the consequences? I can.

     We’ve all heard the term “moral hazard.” It would take a back seat to moral anarchy. “The law” would become whatever the biggest local goon squad says it is.

     It’s bad enough that the odious Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to escape justice for the wheeling and dealing she did while Secretary of State. It’s bad enough that her scrofulous husband will never face prosecution for his diddlings on “Epstein Island.” And it’s certainly bad enough that the vile Barack Hussein Obama, who routinely scamped his Constitutional duties while arrogating powers the Constitution never allowed the president, will never face justice for his crimes. But with the FBI, the CIA, and a large fraction of the Department of Justice provably having colluded to overturn an election, justice must be done.

     It won’t be enough to cull a few bad apples. Too much of the fruit is rotten. The Establishment’s applecart must be overturned. Whole federal departments must be terminated. Major figures must face severe sentences. The Constitutional order must be reasserted without compromise, before the American people decide that the Republic has degenerated too far to merit saving.

     Let the chips fall where they may.