As the Scandal Turns

The plan was simple.  Accuse Donald Trump of collusion with the Russians and he would not get elected.  Then when he was, accuse him of obstruction of justice and he would be thrown out of office.  The nation would be rescued from a conservative clown and progress toward the liberal millennium could resume.

But the scandal has turned.  Now it is the liberals who are on the defensive.  Evidence is accumulating that it is the Democrats who indirectly colluded with the Russians and these left-wingers who are seeking to prevent knowledge of this from becoming public.

Never before have we witnessed such concentrated levels of dishonesty.  Politicians are not known for their scrupulousness, but even at the height of the Watergate fiasco, we did not experience this density of lies.  Today these come at us in such tightly compacted barrages that we cannot keep track.

For months now, Democrats and their media acolytes have been telling us that investigations into FBI and Justice Department corruption are distractions.  These inquiries are supposedly meant to divert our attention from the wrongdoings of president Trump and his supporters.

We are also told that these efforts amount to an obstruction of justice.  If consrvatives succeed in discrediting the law enforcement agents, such as Mueller, who are hot on the trail of a felonious chief executive, we will not be able to find the truth or impose the appropriate punishments.

Besides, Devin Nunes, the leader of the pack of congressional jackals is a notorious partisan.  His goal is to distort the facts rather than reveal them.  The progressive response is thus to relieve him of his committee duties and consign him to well-earned obscurity.

That said, the reality is somewhat different.  Liberals are masters of projection.  Time and again, they accuse others of the misdeeds in which they specialize.  It is therefore they who are attempting to distract the public.  It is they who kick up dust with spurious accusations so as to divert attention from their own transgressions.

The same applies to obstruction of justice.  If the Democrats and their allies are guilty of lying to the FBI or rigging political investigations, they don’t want anyone to know.  And so, they resist sending congressional subpoenas to potential witnesses and defend FBI agents who may be culpable of crimes.

Hillary Clinton famously accused a vast right wing conspiracy of attempting to smear her husband.  It now seems there is a much vaster left-wing conspiracy threatening the rule of law.  Democratic party operatives, liberal office-holders, affiliates of the Deep State bureaucracy, and unethical journalists are conspiring to gin up a scandal where there is none.

Paradoxically, they are apparently about to be blown up by their own petard.  So confident were they that they had the resources to control events, they are terrified by the recent turn of affairs.  Currently in a panic, their overheated rhetoric and obstinate contradictions betray a sense of guilt.

During the Watergate era it was said that the cover-up was worse than the crime.  Yet the contemporary liberal cover-up dwarfs anything attempted by yesteryear’s Republicans.  Nixon and his collaborators were largely confined to the White House and Justice Department.

Today’s cover-up also includes the FBI, many congresspersons, Democratic officials, the State Department, intelligence agencies, private spin factories, and the mainstream media.  Whether directly or indirectly, these provide one another with ammunition and camouflage.

This should be terrifying.  It represents an assault on our democratic traditions.  Never before have so many powerful—and reputedly honorable—individuals worked so strenuously to corrupt the governmental institutions upon which we depend.

Barack Obama had almost total disrespect for the law.  He did what he thought he could get away with.  Members of the party he headed learned these lessons extremely well.  They too are primarily concerned with retaining power and promoting socialist ideals.

Richard Nixon was brought low because he thought it was more important that he win an election than follow the law.  Contemporary Democrats evidently feel the same way.  It is consequently imperative that the rest of us not follow their lead.

If the Washington scandal is indeed turning, we must have the courage to clean up depravity wherever it is found.  Our collective future and the preservation of our republic depend upon it.

Melvyn L. Fein, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

Kennesaw State University