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Failure of Mueller probe exposes Democrats
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April 2019 Feinstein:Trump
Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) was key to investigation of Trump in
Congress.
By STAN OREGANO
For the past three years, the center of Democratic Party opposition to
the Trump presidency has been on the basis of loud and repeated claims
that Trump is a bought-and-paid-for agent of the Kremlin.
Dreams of recouping the party’s fortunes by explaining away the debacle
of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat stirred the Democrats to initiate
charges in Congress and later ignite an investigation by the FBI. Since
May 2017, the Democrats’ efforts have rested mainly on the probe headed
by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a former director of the FBI.
For months MSNBC and CNN have worked from the stance that it was
inevitable that evidence of illegal relations with Russia would come to
light. But when the summary of the Mueller Report was released on March
24, it revealed no evidence that the law had been broken concerning the
Trump campaign’s relationship to the Russian government.
This isn’t to say Trump’s real crimes are not numerous. He has overseen
a monstrous treatment of immigrant families and the escalation of ICE as
a terrorist police force against working people. He has encouraged the
big fossil-fuel emitters in polluting the environment and exacerbating
climate change. He has helped to whip up a violent and semi-fascist
far-right movement. And he has worked tirelessly to make the experience
of trans people in this country even more precarious and dangerous by
attempting to remove what little legal protections they have.
Each of these policies, which merely represent a small selection of his
reactionary actions, would justify a mass movement of opposition in
themselves. But the method and basis of the Mueller probe never had the
potential to be anything of value to a genuine movement opposed to Trump
and the system that makes him possible.
The Democrats are trying to fight Trump on the same terms in which they
opposed his presidential bid—that he is personally “unworthy” of the
office since he is a liar and a crook. But that is true of all bourgeois
politicians, including the Democrats who invested themselves in the
probe. They can’t oppose him on most policy grounds without openly
admitting their own bankruptcy. The real mass movement activity that is
needed to defeat the retrograde capitalist agenda is just as
antithetical to the Democrats as it is to Trump.
The Democrats are a party of the capitalist class, and as such, they are
far more attached to law and order prevailing than they are in fighting
the politics that Trump represents. Even when individual Democrats
sometimes express themselves as being favorable to a more “progressive”
policy, their party affiliation makes them virtually incapable of acting
on that inclination.
Although the Democrats have stage-managed rallies in the street on
occasion, as they did in the months immediately following Trump’s
election, they have given little support to tactics that have actually
been effective at opposing Trump’s policies. The airport protests in the
wake of his Muslim ban, the sickouts of airport workers during the
government shutdown, and the massive wave of teachers’ strikes were
generally opposed by the Democratic Party.
Socialists point out that it is a grave mistake to place any confidence
in sections of capital that claim to be the “friends” of working people.
Maintaining faith in the twin parties of capital—the Republicans and
Democrats—is entirely detrimental to building a movement for social
change and progress. The only force that can stand at the forefront of a
serious opposition to Trump, and the political policies that he
champions, is one that is led by the independent action of working-class
people and their close allies.
The disproportionate coverage that the Mueller probe received from the
media and the semi-official mouthpieces of the Democratic Party caused
the investigation to receive an enormous amount of attention, to the
exclusion of more serious ways to oppose Trump. Accordingly, the failure
of the probe has helped to restore public confidence in the
president—leading to a four-point jump in his approval ratings and a
boost to his campaign for “four more years.”
The puncturing of the Democratic Party’s charges against Trump make
allegations that he is being unfairly persecuted seem more reasonable to
people who are uninformed. But for class-conscious workers and those who
are more politically aware, these developments merely confirm the
bankruptcy of the Democrats and the rottenness of their politics.
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April 11, 2019 in Democratic Party, Trump / U.S. Government.
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