Sundance at The Last Refuge has produced a penetrating capsule analysis of the maneuverings and machinations that constitute the “prequel” to that extraordinary episode. It’s worth reading slowly and digesting in its entirety.
To many American patriots, still reluctant to believe that even a Democrat would have stooped that low, the RussiaGate scandal can seem incomprehensible. To put it as briefly as possible, they don’t want to believe that a sitting president and a former First Lady could have been that vile. Yet the behavior of other Democrats has made it plain that there is no lower bound to their perfidy. For them, power is everything. Therefore, no tactic is too scrofulous to be considered.
Mind you, many Republicans are no better. It’s in the nature of a political system that the worst, in Friedrich Hayek’s phrase, will rise to the top. In the United States, a nation steeped in Christian ethics, that dynamic was curbed for many decades by the restraint imposed by conscience in both its forms: i.e., both the inner awareness of wrongness, and “the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.” (H. L. Mencken)
Put not your trust in princes. (Psalms 146:3) The letter after a politician’s name should be taken only as a guide to the direction of his villainy. Don’t allow exceptions such as Donald Trump to blind you to the general rule.
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