We live in interesting times

Andrea Widburg, today at the American Thinker has a post titled A superb article exposes the fissures in America. The article she refers to is at Compact Magazine by Michael Anton entitled They Can't Let Him Back In. It is a rather long article, but this is Saturday, so hopefully you have a little extra time to read the whole thing, it is that worthwhile.

What makes it worthwhile is that it explains in excruciating detail exactly who and why Trump is so hated, and it really isn't so much Trump as his 100 million supporters. The ruling scavenger class despises you and me.  That sort of hatred is only generated by abject fear.  The Liz Cheneys and Adam Kinzingers, not to mention the Mitch McConnels of the world derive their wealth and power from sources outside America. Thus, they view America with contempt and distain. But they are in power now, and consequently will use whatever levers of power they possess, legal or illegal to keep Trump out of power. Anton discusses each of these strategies from Plan A to Plan F. He concludes with this:

On Sept. 20, 1911, the RMS Olympic—sistership of the ill-fated Titanic—collided with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke, despite both vessels traveling at low speeds, in visual contact with one another for 80 minutes. “It was,” writes maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham, “one of those incredible convergences, in full daylight on a calm sea within sight of land, where two normally operated vessels steamed blithely to a point of impact as though mesmerized.”

Our sea isn’t calm, nor are our vessels normally operated. But we do seem headed for a point of impact, with the field of vision before us as clear as it was on that day. And the regime isn’t changing course. It must want this—or else is so high on its own supply that it can’t see what it is doing.

Rest assured, if what I fear might happen, happens, we will be blamed for it. And the fire next time will make their reaction to Jan. 6 look like a marshmallow roast. I don’t know which possibility is scarier: that they haven’t thought any of this through, or that they have.