The Department of Justice’s IG Report is finally out. It was scathing. Although many on the left are describing it as a nothing-burger that absolved the FBI of bias, they are wrong. The data made public corroborated my suspicion that we are enduring the worst scandal of my lifetime.
Hitherto the Watergate affair held the pride of place. It, however, has been totally eclipsed. To see why, let us examine Richard Nixon’s sins. What exactly did he do to merit being driven from office?
Watergate started with a burglary. This was intended to gather information about the Democratic electoral strategy so as to help the Republicans. Only after it was discovered did Nixon become involved. At this point, he orchestrated a cover-up to protect himself and his associates.
Compare this with the current shenanigans. He have endured an extensive effort to deny Donald Trump the presidency and then expel him from office. It centered in the FBI, but its tendrils extended into the Department of Justice, the CIA, and probably the White House.
We now know that a host of individuals—who hated Trump—conspired to vacate his claim to the Oval Office. To maintain that they were biased, is a massive understatement. These folks intended nothing less than a coup-d’état. Because they considered Trump unqualified, they felt vindicated in protecting Hillary Clinton and framing him.
A coup is an effort to circumvent legal practices and forcibly insert a desired sovereign. Although we associate these takeovers with Banana Republics, those at the highest levels of the FBI and CIA sought exactly the same thing. Their putsch was poorly coordinated, but the objective was identical.
In fabricating Russian collusion where it did not exist, then manufacturing imaginary obstruction of justice, the goal was impeachment. Fictional high crimes and misdemeanors were intended to undo the election. Liberalism would therefore prevail—obviously as the God’s intended.
Once this conspiracy started to unravel, a massive cover-up went into overdrive. Not merely the perpetrators, but other denizens of the deep state, the media, and the public subscribed to the effort. Lies were told, facts obscured, and ancillary accusations made.
Never before has there been such an extensive scheme to hide the truth. What makes this so scandalous is that not only high-level government officials, but mainstream news outlets and ordinary citizens participated in undermining the foundations of our democracy.
Democracies cannot function if the integrity of the electoral process is damaged. Unless the losing parties step aside to allow the winners to govern, the will of the people is frustrated. Plainly, for this delicate system to survive, the losers need to contain their anger and await the next electoral cycle.
The liberals in the FBI, however, decided that they knew better. They dismissed the desires of their fellow citizens as irrelevant. Because many voters were ill-informed idiots, they did not have the right to decide. This was more than bias. It was an assault on our democratic traditions.
What made this fiasco doubly horrible is that the press joined the conspiracy. During the Watergate era, journalists prided themselves on investigative reporting. Today they take pleasure in invective and dissimulation. Important stories are intentionally misrepresented and far-fetched accusations conjured from thin air.
What made it triply horrible is that millions of Americans also jumped aboard. Like most usurpers, these progressives persuaded themselves that they were saving the nation by annihilating those who threatened it. They never realized that in condoning a coup, they constituted a bigger threat.
Richard Nixon, in covering up for his underlings, violated his oath of office. He failed to uphold the constitution. But what James Comey, and his band of miscreants, did was far worse. They not only took the law into their own hands, they jeopardized the fate of the nation.
Nixon was accused of precipitating a constitution crisis. In fact, he merely misgoverned. Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok, in contrast, occasioned an authentic constitutional crisis. Hence, if their attempted coup is not a calamity, I don’t know what is. And if millions of Americans fail to recognize this, it is an appalling tragedy.
Bias is unfortunate. But ignoring evidence of an incipient revolution is suicidal. This is not a game! The enemy is within our gates.
Melvyn L. Fein, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Kennesaw State University
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