by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
So someone Periscope made the following argument about what’s going on with Trump and Ukraine. He said that because there was no legal proof of collusion in the redacted Mueller Report (“It was all a lie.”) that we just have to wait for the “truth” to come out about this situation.
Now, while this is severe manipulation of what happened, it does give me insight into what’s going on with MAGA right now. They’re being told that since the mainstream media “lied” to them about Russian collusion, that it’s just a matter of time that this, too, will be debunked. I can see this being an effective argument for a number of reasons. One, people — especially MAGA — assume that because there have been no political consequences for Trump that he’s in the clear in general.
Or, put another away, even if you accept that the “lamestream” media “lied” about collusion (which they didn’t — speculation isn’t lying) you still have a few other major scandals to deal with. I mean, that Trump hasn’t been impeached over the Stormy Daniels situation is a travesty of justice. And what’s more, the only reason why we have to argue about things like collusion is MAGA *likes* all the inhumane policies that Trump does. They like the racism and misogyny. Lulz! So in the MAGA mind, all the speculation in the media about collusion is translated into a “lie.” They didn’t lie, they just got wrapped up in a narrative that turned out not to have the legal basis they believed. (That and Mueller fell on his sword, likely at the behest of Bill Barr. ) What’s more, there were 11 instances of obstruction of justice found in the Mueller Report. So the argument MAGA makes is once you not find collusion (conspiracy) then Trump’s off the hook for everything else. That says more about the realities of American politics than it does Trump’s actual legal jeopardy.
The whole point of this is this gives you some insight into perpetual bullshit machine that is MAGA. As such, things are going to get a lot worst pretty quick because the Ukraine scandal is about to wrap up. It will wrap up once the Sunday talk shows finish today. The political consensus is going to be that Trump should be impeached, but he won’t be. And that will be that. Once that becomes the conventional wisdom, this scandal will go the way of Stormy Daniels. And once Trump no longer feels any sense of an existential threat, he will take things to the next level.
Trump’s likely to appoint a Special Prosecutor to look into the bullshit allegations against Joe and Hunter Biden. Expect Trump to lean into how the Judiciary is an arm of the GOP. By the middle of his second term, ICE and its infrastructure will be weaponized against his opposition.
As I’ve said before, once you realize that America is little more than the Weimar Republic at this point the necessity to impeach Trump grows. It’s no longer a matter of worried moderate members of the House caucus. Now, it’s how history will remember us.
