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The trance, and how to end it

Trump's latest rally speech was indeed vile and incendiary, but there was also a malefic brilliance to it. Like too many liberals, Greg Sargent (writing in the WP) misunderstood the subtext:

In case there is any doubt about what Trump meant by the “deep state” that is supposedly allied with the news media, Trump also lashed out at the FBI and the Justice Department, claiming that “people are angry” and threatening to personally “get involved.”

What's missing from Sargent's summary? Hillary.

"People are angry" about her. When Trump rhetorically told Sessions "do your job," he meant "go after Hillary." Trump wants the Justice Department to jail the woman still demonized by the brainwashed booboisie.

Trump cultists genuinely believe that Hillary Emmanual Goldstein Clinton has committed a wide range of horrific crimes. If you were to ask these zealots to identify an actual broken statute, they'd sputter incoherently about emails and pizza. The cultists don't really care about facts or evidence; they just know in their bones that she must be guilty of something.

To a large degree, the speech was directed toward the Q-Anon crazies. Yes, True Believers: The Storm is coming.

For the cultists, the Storm is a matter of faith and doctrine. But how long can they retain this faith? Rationalization has limits. Cognitive dissonance is already starting to define those limits.

Even the most fanatical Q cultist know that Jeff Sessions was an early Trump supporter and a campaign surrogate. Trump personally chose him to run the Justice Department. Yet Sessions now refuses to bring charges against Hillary Clinton. Yes, Sessions recused himself in the Russia probe, but that recusal does not prevent him from prosecuting Hillary if she truly is guilty of a crime.

Why hasn't he acted against her? Why Trump's chosen warrior slay the demon?

The Q cultists can't yet say the words out loud, but in the secret places of their souls, they know the answer: Hillary is innocent. That's why Sessions won't act against her. There is no other possible reason.


The charges against her are all bullshit. Everything they learned from Breitbart, Fox, Rush, 4chan, Reddit: Bullshit.

We've been here before. A similar situation occurred after the country saw Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony regarding the Monica Lewinsky affair. His approval ratings shot up.

Yes, we're talking about the testimony in which he made the "meaning of 'is'" argument, which actually made sense in context. The anti-Clinton propagandists seized on that bit only years later, after memories had grown fuzzy.

Let me repeat: The country watched the testimony and Clinton's approval ratings rose.

Why, you ask? In part, it was because Clinton spoke reasonably and persuasively. But in larger part, the country suddenly realized that the anti-Clinton propagandists had been bluffing all along.

For years, the Republican smear machine hit Clinton with everything they had. After all the propaganda, after all the mud, after all the lies about Waco and Mena and "mystery death lists" and "the boys on the tracks," after the incessant congressional investigations, after the Starr inquiry strayed far from its original mandate and turned into a remorseless persecution machine, after all the bombastic assurances that Clinton would face not just removal but prison -- the country woke up.

It was as if a giant hand in the sky had snapped its fingers. A national trance suddenly ended.

For years, the Republican propaganda machine had portrayed Bill Clinton as a combination of Stalin, Fu Manchu and Dr. Doom. It was all a lie.

The Republicans had nothing on Clinton. Well, nothing serious. Just Monica.

Suddenly, the country saw the real guy: A brilliant, handsome young president whose only sins were of the flesh. Although he seemed to love his wife, the pair were probably no longer interested in each other sexually. That's the story of most marriages. We hate to admit that fact. Many of us pretend that this fact is not a fact, because doing so allows us to bask in the illusion of virtue. But we all know the story: People get married, they depend on each other emotionally, they can't imagine life without each other -- but they get bored with each other in bed.

And so this brilliant, handsome young president gave in to temptation when a curvaceous, infatuated young lovely offered him fellatio. Moralists felt obligated to scream in outrage. But we all know how those same moralists (I speak now of the male ones) would have responded if a curvy, infatuated young lovely offered them fellatio. Female moralists are just as likely to fall prey to a cognate temptation, if offered -- and anyone who claims otherwise is a damned liar.

The Republicans promised us a conspiracy worse than Watergate and the JFK assassination combined. What we got was Monica.

Confession time: I took the Whitewater smear seriously at first. True, the initial articles didn't make a whole lot of sense; everything seemed amorphous and confusing. My eyes would always start to glaze over around paragraph four, and I'm not allergic to hard books. Nevertheless, like many Americans, I retreated to the familiar axiom about smoke and fire.

After all, serious-looking people on serious teevee programs took Whitewater ultra-seriously. It had to be real, right? There must be a there there.

Then the Whitewater books came out. Time to learn the details, I decided.

This was the text I forced myself to study: Blood Sport by James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize winner and Wall Street Journal writer. Today, twenty-two years later, I can recall very little about that book's contents. (Memory! She is a funny thing, no?) But I vividly recall my initial reaction: This is shit. Whitewater is a non-issue.

The whole thing was just a stupid, failed real estate deal in which the young Clintons got suckered by some southern-fried sharpies into losing some money. This "scandal" was a skyscraper built on a fart.

Nevertheless, Ken Starr and his band of zealots continued to investigate every nook and cranny of this pseudoscandal. They found nothing to justify the frenzy. They tossed Susan McDougal in jail on bullshit charges -- an unrelated matter involving my least-favorite conductor. (Fucking Zubie. Classical music buffs never talk about his recordings nowadays.) They tried to get her to tell lies about Whitewater, about sex, about anything. But she didn't waver. An American hero, if you ask me.

Later -- too late -- came a book that told the full truth. Conason and Lyons' The Hunting of the President should be in every American home, because it helps us assess all of the other Clinton smears we've heard over the years -- including the smears we've heard from Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick and all the other proven liars that you're probably dying to tell me about. Fuck them and fuck you.

If the accusations against Bill Clinton were real, Ken Starr would have offered proof. Simple as that.

If the current accusations against Hillary Clinton were real, Jeff Sessions would file charges. Simple as that.

What about the accusations against Donald Trump and co.? Ah. That's different. We don't know the full truth yet, but we know enough to say that this is not Whitewater. We have entered the realm of the real.

Trump's lawyer has copped a plea and implicated Trump. Manafort went to jail because he could not restrain himself from witness tampering, and surely will spend years in prison if he is not pardoned by his crooked co-conspirator. Flynn, Gates, Pinedo, van der Zwaan and Papadopoulos have pled guilty. Roger Stone (Trump's closest friend for many years) will probably be indicted soon. Trump's lawyers don't want him to testify because they know that the guy can't stop lying. The intelligence community has stated categorically that Russia interfered with the election. The Trump Tower meeting is but one of many indicators that Trump and the Russians were working together. Trump provably lied about that meeting and about much else. Without Russia's oligarchs, Trump would have a lot less money. Trump made crystal clear in Helsinki that, in a choice between American intelligence and Vladimir Putin, he favors Putin. Trump's longtime "fixer" has turned against him, as has the accountant who truly runs Trump's businesses. I could go on. And on. And on. And on. And on.

We've also learned that, when it comes to sexual sin, Donald Trump makes Bill Clinton look like Saint Bernadette.

In response, the right wing propagandists must resort to the lowest, loopiest sorts of conspiracy blather -- freaky stuff that even Milton "Bill" Cooper and David Icke might have considered too damned wacky. Recently, Trump told his rubes that Lester Holt video was edited in such a way as to put words in Trump's mouth. No. It wasn't.

Many Americans remained hypnotized by these baseless conspiracy theories. Yet slowly -- incrementally -- cognitive dissonance may force an awakening. The zealots are starting to question their presumptions. Pride prevents them from voicing their doubts, but those doubts linger in silence.

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