Hi Roger,
I agree with the author that the Democrats don't seem to have much of an
iriginal authentic message and they'd better start coming up with candidates
different from the likes of Schumer and Clinton. I also agree that the Russians
didn't have much influence on the 2016 election, though they tried.
But Robert, (not William) Mueller should change his concentration to Trump's
finances and how Russia helped a very crooked Trump get out from under
bankruptcies. In return for laundering Putin's ill-gotten bootie, Trump was
handsomely bankrolled.
That, to me is how Russia helped allow trump to have the wherewithal to run for
president. IT seems like Mueller is doing just that and I don't feel any sorrow
for the likes of Mannffort. Trump, either prove to us that you're not
bankrolled by Putin by releasing your tax returns. IF you don't then you prove
that you're every bitt as crooked as hilary.
Bob Hachey
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The Militant (logo)
Vol. 81/No. 31 August 21, 2017
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Political crisis of US rulers stokes liberal drive to indict Donald Trump
BY SETH GALINSKY
Liberal Democrats and their allies in the mass media, consumed by hysteria over
the presidency of Donald Trump, are campaigning to get him indicted, or at
least impeached. Their real target is the workers who rallied and voted for
him, seeking change and to “drain the swamp” in Washington. The propertied
rulers see — and fear — the threat of bigger class battles in the future.
Getting rid of President Trump is a way to tell them to stand down.
“Trump gives voice to a faction of America that also feels aggrieved,”
Charles Blow writes in his New York Times column Aug. 7. “Trump won because he
whines. He whines in a way that makes the weak feel less vulnerable and more
vicious.
“The way they see it,” Blow continues, “they are victims of coastal and urban
liberals and the elite institutions — economic, education and entertainment —
clustered there. They are victims of an economy evolving in ways, both
technical and geographic, that cuts them out or leaves them behind.”
And you can find dozens of similar commentaries in the Times, the Washington
Post and CNN, as well as the morning “news” and nighttime talk shows.
Their gripe isn’t really that Trump’s policies are so different. He’s a
billionaire who shares the goals of Democrats and Republicans alike to defend
the interests of U.S. capital at home and abroad.
Millions of workers have been pushed out of jobs, with the “labor force
participation rate” at record lows. They face a growing crisis in finding — or
affording — health care. Infant mortality is going up. Life expectancy is
falling. And there’s an explosion of opioid addiction.
For Blow and his ilk, workers seeking a solution to this state of affairs are
just the “waning power of whiteness, privilege, patriarchy,”
and a desire to go back to the “good old days” when women “got back-alley
abortions and worked for partial wages” and “coal was king.”
He and his ilk see workers — especially workers who are Caucasian — as a big,
dangerous mob of racists and reactionaries.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson Aug. 3 tells workers who back Trump
they don’t much matter. “The voice of a laid-off West Virginia coal miner is no
more authentic than that of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur,” Robinson says, “or
— and this may be shocking — an opinion writer for a mainstream news outlet.”
“Frustrated with a political system that seems incapable of getting much of
anything accomplished,” he says, “they decided to lob in a grenade, blow it to
smithereens and start over.”
That’s true.
Facts that don’t match their assumptions don’t matter to the liberal media.
After months of articles with the wildest insinuations of Trump administration
collusion with Moscow, they have little to point to that makes the case, but
that doesn’t stop them.
And they lionize Special Prosecutor William Mueller, former boss of the FBI,
the rulers’ political police, who’s been tasked with bringing Trump down.
Mueller impaneled a grand jury at the end of July with power to subpoena
documents, grill witnesses and make indictments. He has assembled a gang of FBI
agents, prosecutors and hot-shot lawyers to do the job.
Workers have seen this type of operation before. The rulers pick a target, then
turn special prosecutors and grand juries loose until they find something to
pin on them. They spin off leaks and do everything possible to make the victim
look like a criminal.
Mueller decided he wanted some papers from former Trump campaign chairman Paul
Manafort. Instead of asking for them, he got the FBI to carry out a predawn
raid on his home to seize them. Then he got the raid leaked to the Washington
Post, which made it the lead story on its website Aug. 9.
It turns out that Manafort had already turned over many of them to a
congressional committee also “investigating” Trump.
Big Trump rallies
Despite wishful thinking by liberals that support for the president “is
collapsing,” Trump has called out supporters in the face of this witch hunt in
big rallies in working-class cities like Youngstown, Ohio, and Huntington, West
Virginia.
“Are there any Russians here tonight?” Trump asked to laughter from a crowd of
thousands Aug. 3 in Huntington, in the heart of coal country.
“We don’t’ need advice from the Washington swamp,” he said to cheers.
“We need to drain the swamp.”
“The reason the Democrats only talk about the totally made up Russia story is
because they have no message, no agenda and no vision,” the president said.
Under his leadership, Trump promised, “American workers will build the future
and American energy and American clean coal will power this future.”
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