NEO: More reflections on the Mar-A-Lago raid: Trump as an illegitimate president.
On this blog, commenter “Greg Hlatky” remarked:
You are watching the Ruling Class lose its collective mind over a man who has not been in office for more than a year and a half, didn’t take his salary when President and likely isn’t drawing a pension. Unless Trump is just a MacGuffin.
Trump isn’t just a MacGuffin, but he is at least partly a symbol. Sarah Palin was a similar symbol before him, but because she never was elected VP, the focus on her faded. Trump would have faded, too, if he had lost the 2016 election. His winning and becoming president was the outrage that cannot be forgiven, ever. They could not believe it happened, and they think he must be prevented from ever winning again or ever taking a position of any kind of political power.
Not just Trump, though; any Republican who isn’t part of the genteel NeverTrumper club must never take power. Any Republican who might really be serious about stopping them and especially about draining the so-called swamp cannot have any power. It is a deadly serious game and they are determined to win.
Trump himself said, and he was correct: “They’re not after me, they’re after you – I’m just in the way.”
Read the whole thing.
Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.