The Blind Establishment

Thus far I have hesitated to comment on the circus revolving around former FBI Director James Comey, and the special investigation into Russian interference in American politics.  For all the special attention by politicians and news coverage by the media, nothing even remotely damning has been revealed in terms of legally actionable material.  A lot of time and energy has been invested in this situation, only to reveal that all we have is a “he said/he said” situation.  Given that this is the case, until something important is revealed, I don’t care about the investigation and I’m still not going to write anything specifically about it.

More important than anything revealed today is this: nothing has been revealed that would cause President Trump to lose his most valuable and powerful ally; the average American who voted for him.  Let me remind the media and politicians of something very important which, regardless of all the attention that has been drawn to President Trump and this investigation, they both seem to have completely lost sight of:

President Trump is a populist president.

President Trump is the first president in a long time to be elected because his views and understandings of the nation’s problems matched the same views and values of the average American voter.  President Trump was not appealing to either major political party.  He most certainly was not appealing to the media (though hypocritically they find his style irresistibly appealing to their ratings/coffers).  In summary, he was not appealing to any of The Establishment.

As much as many Americans do vehemently detest President Trump and think of his supporters as the basket of Deplorables found after the “proverbial lifting up of a rock,” they still have to face the fact the Deplorables are still  Americans; with just as much legitimate voting power that the progressives, in all their angelic wisdom, have.  Or perhaps President Trump’s opponents are hoping that his supporters represent only a minor portion of the population, and that Russia made all the difference in creating extra votes to get him elected.  

Regardless of what you think of President Trump and his supporters, you must acknowledge that he was elected as part of a considerable and passionate movement that defied everything that The Establishment wanted.  Contrary to everything floating around in the media, there is currently nothing that demonstrates President Trump obtained the highest office in this nation by any means other than fair and legal election.  Despite all the efforts of partisanship, the establishment, and the media, the will of the average American citizen was demonstrated in a very fair and political manner for the first time in a very long time.  

Nobody has stopped to think what would happen if Trump was successfully impeached.  Nobody has considered the potential reaction from his many followers.  More importantly, they haven’t considered the reasons why they wanted him to be the President; so much so that they placed their bets on him against all odds.  There is currently an effort to undermine President Trump (and those who fairly elected him) via bureaucratic processes.  For all their blindness, The Establishment should realize this: there are consequences for ignoring and trivializing the concerns of half your electorate.  This doesn’t necessarily mean revolution.  However, impeachment would certainly be further verification to the President’s supporters that their values have been marginalized by just about everyone in power except President Trump.

The Establishment is so caught up in sensation it has tunnel vision.  Once again, they are forgetting to consult the average American, whom they are supposed to represent.  I have watched coverage across multiple news channels.  I have seen all the standard “experts” consulted on the matter.  By and large, these are all the same people who were consulted prior to the election; most of whom guaranteed a Trump defeat.  And now, more than six months after President Trump was fairly elected, these so called experts are doing the same thing they did before the election; ignoring what the average American thinks and feels.  The Establishment is making the same mistake they made six months ago!  They learned absolutely nothing from the election of President Trump.

I don’t care if President Trump said he expected loyalty from Comey.  I don’t care if a few members of President Trump’s campaign spoke with a few Russians.  You know what I care about?  I care about illegal immigrants that bring crime to America.  I care about defeating Jihadists who want to destroy American culture.  I care about paying ridiculous health insurance premiums while Juan Doe comes across the border and gets free health care.  I care about the difficulty Americans have buying anything that is not made by China or Mexico.  Here is what is most infuriating about all this: after everything the election revealed about the will of the average American, THE ESTABLISHMENT STILL DOESN’T CARE ABOUT WHAT WE CARE ABOUT.  They do not represent our interests.

The American citizens whom The Establishment has forgotten represent what writer Daniel Greenfield refers to as “flyover country.”  They are the citizens who do not belong to the great liberal city-states of the coast whose agenda was upset by the election of President Trump.  Their values and wishes are largely neglected or ignored.  While The Establishment spends all its time and energy creating committees that spin the wheels of impotence, a lot of American’s are out there thinking, “can’t somebody just put a little of that energy toward Making America Great Again?”

But what do we know?  We’re just the “uneducated” basket of deplorables who, unfortunately for the other half of the country, have the right to vote and have our concerns acknowledged.  The Establishment and the progressives may wish that President Trump’s election was the result of Russian manipulation.  But in all likelihood, all those who oppose President Trump will soon have to face the fact he was elected with the solid support of a significant portion of America; regardless of what this investigation finds.

~AD