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Originally Posted by DVaut1
It's a "good plan" from a certain point of view.
The deplorables and mouthbreathers and assorted Republican die hard partisans were never, ever going to just roll over and let justice proceed without comment. Once they get even the faintest whiff Trump won't be completely exonerated, it was a fait accompli -- absolutely 100% lock -- they would start whining about fairness, about Mueller, about Comey collusion, about whatever they can talk about to keep the deplorables paranoid, angry, clicking, tuning in, and voting.
If you were waiting for this moment to be the one where they rolled over and gave in and found some ultimate arbiter to decide whether they get to keep power or whatever -- come now.
Their best strategy from here is to keep their base rabid, angry, pretending they are aggrieved victims of the Deep State and The Swamp and a hopelessly partisan justice system that ignores Hillary's crimes and abuses poor Donald Trump. That's the only hope to keep GOP spirits up and keep the GOP Congress in line here.
It's obviously a cynical and ludicrous strategy, but what other options do they have? This strategy gives them two ways to win:
- Mueller doesn't discover much or conclude much: SEE, even hyper partisan liberal Robert Mueller couldn't nail Trump, LOL nothingburger
or
- Hyper partisan Mueller witch-hunted poor Donald Trump, the deep state is alive and well, like and share!
It was never going to be any other way. They were never going to be like "let Mueller do his job undisturbed and if he discovers Trump is a lying criminal, welp, gg, we'll just fold up shop as a party now, sorry for the trouble."
It's beyond problematic because if they can do this for Trumpcare and the Paris Climate Accord pullout and obstruction of justice offenses with so much evidence, they can do it for anything. WE ARE LOSING THE BATTLE FOR TRUTH! Damn right I'm scared.
Just look at what Trump and his lawyer did on Thursday night. They took what was objectively the worst day of Trump's political life and handed out cigars to celebrate vindication, even though Comey said 3 times that Mueller's job now includes looking into the POTUS for obstruction, etc. But he wasn't under investigation at the time he asked Comey, so...victory? Then they went on to lie and contradict each other on everything else.
Basically, they threw a public celebration because Trump told the truth ONCE, and his base ate it up!