by
Gadfly
I
watched the Andrew McCabe interview on 60
Minutes. My reaction: Andrew McCabe meet John Dean.
If
anyone has had a chance to read the incredibly well-documented book, Silent Coup,
by Len Colodny who does not use anonymous sources, they will see how
ambitious and unvirtuous people can generate such malignancy. Even today, most Americans have no idea of
the real Watergate story. For example,
see Jim Hougan’s Secret
Agenda and Geoff Shepard’s The
Real Watergate Scandal.
John
Dean, Nixon’s General Counsel, orchestrated the Watergate break-ins and then
orchestrated the cover-up. In the
process, numerous Nixon-associated officials became collateral damage (as in
the Mueller investigations) and Nixon was forced to resign (certainly the American
left’s goal for Trump). These activities
took place months after Nixon won reelection in a landslide, taking every state
except for Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. The Washington
Post’s Bob Woodward also played a key role, and his “deep throat” source
was General Alexander Haig while serving as Nixon’s Deputy National Security
Advisor in Nixon’s first term and as his Chief of Staff in the second
term. As Colodny reports in the 25th
anniversary edition of his book, Dean and Woodward sued, unsuccessfully, to
prevent the books original publication in 1991.
In the current era, we see numerous Bob Woodward wannabes in the
left-leaning media.
McCabe
was a small player in America’s ruling class. Inexperienced but “horny” for the
orgasm of power, McCabe was arrogant and careless in his attempt to apply power
against a duly elected President. Other
players, big (Obama, Biden, Clinton) and small (Clapper, Brennan, Rice, Powers,
Comey, Ohr, Crowdstrike, GPS Fusion, etc.), are now at great risk of being held
accountable for subverting our Constitution and the rule of law.
Yesterday,
a day following McCabe's 60 Minutes “cover-up” performance, President Trump
gave a speech on Venezuela in Miami, Florida. I watched the speech real time on
Fox
News, the only network that covered the speech. As I flipped channels
to CNN and MSNBC, in particular, pundits were expressing sympathy for McCabe, “the
victim.” Later in the evening, there was
not one second devoted to the speech by any of the networks except for Fox's Hannity.
Coincidentally,
yesterday I watched Evita, with Madonna playing the role of Eva Peron, the First
Lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952. Like
America’s First Lady Melania Trump, she was beautiful. Unlike Melania, Eva was practically
worshiped by Argentina’s people. Peron
was a champion for her husband’s political agenda, which was modeled after
Mussolini’s. Like Venezuela, Argentina
was once one of the most thriving nations in the world until it was afflicted
by socialism.
The
most significant part of President Trump’s speech was about socialism. This is
the first time of which I am aware that a prominent public official in American
politics, let alone the President, has had the backbone to call out this
ideology and to explain why it is so antithetical to the American dream.
Without ever mentioning Democrats, any objective observer will notice how President
Trump’s description of socialism closely aligns with today's Democrat Party (as
I explicitly discussed in “Defining
America’s Democrat”).
President Trump pulled no
punches in his speech:
We
know that socialism is not about justice, it's not about equality, it's not
about lifting up the poor -- it's about one thing only: power for the ruling
class. And, the more power they get, the more they crave. They want to run
health care, run transportation and finance, run energy, education, run
everything. They want the power to decide who wins and who loses, who's
up and who's down, what's true and what's false, and even who lives and
who dies.
The timing of President Trump’s
Venezuela speech is critical for two reasons.
First, President Trump is showing leadership in his support for the
Venezuelan people, primarily, and for Cubans, Nicaraguans, and other Western Hemisphere
people seeking freedom. Second, President
Trump has put the growing cohort of Democrat Presidential candidates on notice
that he will ensure the American people truly understand the left’s “ruling
class” agenda.
The Democrat “ruling class”
agenda is hiding in the open. There are
no secrets here. In a lengthy article,
“Winning Is Not Enough,” published this past summer, Paul Glastris, Editor in
Chief of the Washington Monthly (a
501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation), used the following as the subtitle: “Democrats are focused on taking back
power—but our democracy depends on them keeping it. To do that, they have
to start thinking differently.”
President Trump is the
culmination of an alienated America: the
result of the left’s concerted efforts to agitate and divide Americans, beginning
in the Progressive era at the turn of the 20th century and accelerating
in the 1960s. President Trump brings
hope for the unity that once provided the political refuge Americans counted
upon.
Today’s Washington Examiner article,
“How the Collapse of Communities Gave Us Trump,” by Timothy Carney adeptly
captures this phenomenon. President
Trump does not believe in a ruling class. He believes in sovereign people--“We the
People” that believe in a Constitutional Republic and the rule of law—not the
rule of men.
