A Fraught Moment

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

The last time the Democratic Party blew up in a presidential election year was 1860. It had evolved from Jefferson’s 1800 bloc of yeoman farmers to Andrew Jackson’s rowdy caucus of frontier populists in the 1830s, and settled into a slough of pro-slavery apologists by the 1850s, including two do-nothing Democratic presidents, Pierce and Buchanan. The party held a nominating convention in the spring of 1860 and couldn’t come up with a candidate when a claque of southern “fire-eaters” walked out. They tried again a few months later and cracked up into three separate parties with three nominees — and of course Mr. Lincoln won the election. The result was the bloodiest war in US history.

That’s one way to drain a swamp. Historical obfuscators might say the Civil War was a lofty, legalistic quarrel over “state’s rights,” but of course it was really about the intolerable depravity of slavery. A hundred years later, the mysterious inversions of history converted the old slaver’s party into the Civil Rights party. That had a good fifty-year run. It included a hearty side-dish of anti-war sentiment, and a general disposition against the Big Brother treatment of citizens, including especially the overreach of the CIA and the FBI.

What is the Democratic Party today? Well, it’s the cheerleading squad for “seventeen” government agencies that add up to the craftily-labeled “intel community,” a warm-and-fuzzy coalition of snoops, false witnesses, rogue lawfare cadres, seditionists, and bad-faith artists working sedulously to hide their previous misdeeds with ever-fresh ones. They’re the party against free speech, the party against due process of law, the party determined to provoke war with Russia. They’re the party of sexual confusion, sexual hysteria, and sexual conflict, the party of kangaroo courts, cancel culture, erasing boundaries (including national borders), and of making up rules for all that as they go along — like the Nazis and Soviets used to do. The ideas and policies they advocate are so comprehensively crazy that their old support of slavery looks quaintly straightforward in comparison.

It’s taken a while for the full efflorescence of these political pathologies to present. But now they are finally on display for all to see in what is supposed to be a climactic impeachment melodrama. The impeachment process itself has revealed the party’s genius for inventing new debaucheries of law and government misconduct — the latest being Rep Adam Schiff’s blatantly illegal cadging of his opponents’ phone logs. And now, after three years of unchallenged wickedness, they literally face the moment of truth.

That is, when all the many players in this grand game of Gotcha have to face the consequences of what they have done. The Horowitz report is necessarily limited to the DOJ inspector general’s narrow mission scope: the IG can only interview current employees of the agency and its stepchild, the FBI, which means that key players in the Gotcha game such as former FBI director Comey, former acting director McCabe, fired special agent Peter Stzrok and notably ex-CIA director John Brennan were outside of Mr. Horowitz’s sphere of operations. His scope was also supposedly limited to the issues around FISA warrant mischief — though those complex shenanigans may have led the IG to other related dodges, cons, and crimes outright. The IG has no real law enforcement powers. He can only refer or recommend further action. Nevertheless, a great miasma of anxiety oppresses the Democratic Party now as it awaits whatever Mr. Horowitz has to say about these matters.

The party’s propaganda arms at The New York Times, the WashPo, and cable news networks worked up a frenzy of distractions and ruses this past week — for instance the “bombshell” that International-Man-of-Mystery Joseph Mifsud was not a hireling of the FBI. Of course, nobody ever claimed he was. Rather, he is suspected of being an agent of the Italian intel service with links to British intel, both used by the CIA as beards for its nefarious activities around its own election meddling of 2016. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic caucus has been busy with ersatz impeachment proceedings, which are invidiously scheduled to continue next week as a smokescreen to conceal the Horowitz findings. It’s been a frantic campaign for them at a fraught moment in this long saga — but the odor of desperation is thick and rank.

Of course, behind the Horowitz report loom the specters of Barr & Durham. Whatever they’ve been up to has been hermetically sealed in a globe of silence even more oppressive and nightmarish for the Dems than the IG’s inquiry. Barr & Durham are able to make things stick, most crucially genuine criminal culpability for the entire RussiaGate fiasco and all of its offshoots, including the most recent “Whistleblower” caper — a patently treasonous scheme. Who knows if and when indictments start raining down, but there’s a chance that it will be a very hard rain indeed.

I’m not so sure that the Democratic Party can survive the washing away of its beloved narrative by that hard rain. They are also faced with a field of manifestly lame presidential candidates, especially the current leader of the pack, Joe Biden, fumbling and doddering his way down the campaign trail in an apparent effort to dodge being investigated for the grifts of his Veep years. All this may be enough to put the party down, like a dog that has peed on the carpet one time too many. Somebody else, from some other hastily assembled party, may have to stand against Mr. Trump in 2020.

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wxtwxtr
wxtwxtr

“A hundred years later …”
Is my favorite Dem looking at camouflage fabric and believing it’s the forest?

“… mysterious inversions …”
Irony! Of course he’s heard of the Fabian Society and their reversal of the word “Liberal”?
Or “Capitalism”, or any of the other rhetorical tricks of his Leftist roots?

Even now, I read serious commentators like the Zman talk about the Left and its ostracizing normies for “Morality” reasons while he’s describing their anti-moral words and actions. The ones in the 3rd para.

Stucky

Ms. FREUD WAS ABLE TO BREATH ON HER OWN FOR EIGHT HOURS YESTERDAY!!!

Praise da good Lawd Jeebus!!!! (And I mean that in the most respectful way.)

Thanks to ALL of you for your continued support. It means much to both of us.

Glock-N-Load

Amazing news Stucky. May the good Lawd keep smiling down on you.

Paula
Paula

Awe… that is so sweet…

is because you prayed for that dentist i bet

Ghost

Squirrel is cute but a little tacky. I will work on your blog etiquette later.

It is great news.

Realestatepup
Realestatepup

Sutck that’s great news! Just in time for the holiday season. I hope you both have a great, safe, happy one.

ottomatik
ottomatik

I hope it is the first of a growing wave of good news!

flash
flash

Great news Stuck. Prayers were heard and answered.

Mygirl...Maybe
Mygirl...Maybe

That’s great news…keep the faith and keep on praying…God bless.

deKuntier
deKuntier

Wonderful new in the absolute sense!! May she continue to improve and I pray for strength for you both.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

Schiff’s acquisition and use of phone records as political leverage would get his ass censured or removed from chairing a committee if the Democrats weren’t corrupt as hell. The leaking intelligence services, civilian and military alike, are infested with ethically compromised, subversive employees more than willing to help The Swamp with their dirty work.
It’s time some of the agencies got a nice budget cut and a purge, something a nice financial reset might help along.

gman
gman

“two do-nothing Democratic presidents”

wouldn’t mind “do-nothing” democrat presidents.

Dutch
Dutch

Nancy Pelosi – looks like the Crypt Keeper.

Have you seen Biden’s senior adviser? She looks like a cone head gorilla. Black, fat, ugly the ‘Trinity of Diveristy’
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Anonymous
Anonymous

Cro-magnon or in her case, she being a professional (ha) pro-magnon. Imagine black folks telling us how to speak. Imagine no more.

Anonymous
Anonymous

from the article:
“government agencies that add up to the craftily-labeled “intel community,” a warm-and-fuzzy coalition of snoops, false witnesses, rogue lawfare cadres, seditionists, and bad-faith artists working sedulously to hide their previous misdeeds with ever-fresh ones.”

From Three Days of the
Condor: “Who is behind this?”

-I don’t know, and that’s what bothers me. It might be someone within the community. Is there a C_A within the C_A? I just don’t know.

“Community?!…Boy, have you found a home, Wiggins. You can’t bring me in, because you want me to draw fire, like one of those penny arcade monkeys”

Mygirl...Maybe
Mygirl...Maybe

Horowitcz will be lots of sturm und drang and not much else. Nothing will ever happen to the likes of Comey, Clapper, Obama, etc. so don’t even think about getting any hopes up.

Solutions Are Obvious
Solutions Are Obvious

I smell a ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ in the offing.

No one goes to jail.

The commission will spend a fortune to hide the actual truth so ‘the country can move forward’.

Both sides have enough skeletons in their respective closets to want nothing to do with TOO much truth being revealed.

yo dingo
yo dingo

What you smell is:
Yet another huge false flag waiting to get us involved again in the ME, and obliterate the entire political narrative, down the memory hole.

US + Nato vs Iran+Russia+China

a missile match to the finish, no boots on the ground, just shock and awe.

This will have to dual advantage of also crashing the dollar economy, to be replaced with a basket of blah blah…
“insert link to Alt-Market here”

38BWD22
38BWD22

The Democrats will not disappear, even with Durham convictions. They and their scum MSM allies will be a pestilence upon our land for years. With luck, Americans will wake up and see what they have become: seditious.

JHK deserves many kudos.

Steve C.

Historical obfuscators might say the Civil War was a lofty, legalistic quarrel over “state’s rights,” but of course it was really about the intolerable depravity of slavery.

Kunstler’s total lack of historic knowledge or understanding of the war to prevent southern independence taints his whole piece to that of an amateur. I doubt he even knows the definition of what a civil war is.

He writes some interesting things and he makes some good points, but in doing his virtue signaling about how shocked and appalled his is regarding slavery he loses any reader with even a rudimentary understanding of history.

What we call here a maroon…

A. R. Wasem
A. R. Wasem

“Legally” the Civil War was about “States’ Rights”; “morally” it turned on the issue of slavery per se and “politically” it rested on the question of the status (“slave” or “free”) of new states about to be admitted to the Union from the late 1850s up to the beginning of the War. I can personally vouch for the fact the JHK is very historically knowledgeable and astute.

CCRider
CCRider

“Legally” the Civil War was about “States’ Rights” Legally? Like Lincoln sending soldiers to shut down newspapers that opposed the war? Didn’t I read in the constitution that only congress could declare war? Lincoln kicked open the door that has led to the monstrosity government we have today. He was America’s 1st dictator. There would/will be others.

Steve C.

“…I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race…” — Abraham Lincoln, Debate with Stephen Douglas, Sept. 18, 1858, in Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858 (New York: Library of America, 1989), pp. 636-637.

Steve C.

“…If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side…” — General Ulysses S. Grant who kept his slaves throughout the war.

M G
M G

Did not know this about Grant!

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

The South had every Right to quit the Federal Tyranny of the North and “form a more perfect union” even if the reason had been just Slavery (which it wasn’t). That Slave Dog Lie buzzes around ignorant Yankee liberals like horseflies around shit but it don’t hunt with Southerners.

yo djingo
yo djingo

oh, ((They)) are not ignorant, they just prefer anti-facts, anti-matter, and anything to do to accelerate the implosion of this Empire.

“this will not be the last Empire of men, we will have another, and another, until there is no more men”

Anonymous
Anonymous

They want to implode our country and it like them shitting in their own kitchen, a goldfish shitting in a small bowl or shitting in your own bed while asleep. Nobody wins but they are too low IQ to see this

Anonymous
Anonymous

A fine article with lots of stirring retoric. Now what will be the take away when there are no charges and no indictments ?? the one part which has been ignored in all of this is the simple fact that “the king’s men never have to play by the king’s rules”. That is exactly the reason most of these people are in politics to begin with.

flash
flash

Lincoln did nothing wrong.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Flash…..because he ever so often gets a flash of brilliance. His last comment was not

Anonymous
Anonymous

Well, you could say that Lincoln died to give us the USA we have today.

(cue elegiac music, or clown horns, as preferred)

ottomatik
ottomatik

A concise compilation of current contingencies. Well done sir.
Horowitz will spice it up nicely with his report, of which I assume will contain just enough heat to elevate the tempo of unfolding events, especially in the Senate trial, yet not enough substance to bring crescendo.
That, as pointed out, resides with Barr & Durham, to execute at a latter date. A Sword of Domocles poised to relieve the pressure participants posses in excess.
Enjoy the show!

Jai Seli
Jai Seli

Kudos, JHK – ” . . . odor of desperation is thick and rank.” Your literary flamboyancy is always a welcome moment of humor in a increasingly “maddening world”.

Jai Seli
Jai Seli

yo JHK, encourage you to do a search thru startpage.com for the keywords: ed buck, adam schiff, igor pasternak, standard hotel and see what comes up. Perhaps you will learn Adam [piece of compromised] Schiff’s desperation is sooooo palpable.

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