(1) We disagree with the distinguished author about the “Comey testimony” being Hemingwayesque, or anything of the sort. Instead we saw a carefully staged show of lies and evasions lacking in substance, since the establishment’s hounding of Trump is not based on real important issues (on which both wings of the plutocracy are all pretty much agreed as a matter of class outlook), but on matters of timing and stylistic preferences on how to skipper the imperialist ship of state.
His critics’ postmortems will emphasize that Trump’s brightly burning campaign rallies were fueled by lies: Obama was Muslim, Obama wasn’t born here, global warming is a Chinese hoax, illegal immigrants are streaming across the border (years ago they were, no longer), police officers are the real victims (as opposed to the numerous black men they shoot). These lies are scandalous. They ought to be remembered. But we shouldn’t let them overshadow Trump’s biggest lie of all: that he would be different, outside the ideological box of the two parties.
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