What if Trump is guilty, but the GOP simply doesn’t give a f#ck?
In the event that the clear preponderance of evidence shows that Trump is guilty – How many Delaware Republicans do you trust to put the country’s best interest ahead of their party’s? A half dozen maybe? Certainly no Republican of any importance with take the side of the rule of law at the Party’s expense. I’ve been saying this for a while, but it is starting to sink in. The “truth” simply doesn’t matter to the GOP. There is no objective truth. It is Republicanism first, last and always.
But we are disturbingly close to the following scenario:
Say Mueller reveals hard proof that the Trump campaign knowingly colluded with Russia, strategically using leaked emails to hurt Clinton’s campaign. Say the president — backed by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Fox News, Breitbart, most of the US Cabinet, half the panelists on CNN, most of the radio talk show hosts in the country, and an enormous network of Russian-paid hackers and volunteer shitposters working through social media — rejects the evidence.
They might say Mueller is compromised. It’s a Hillary/”deep state” plot. There’s nothing wrong with colluding with Russia in this particular way. Dems did it first. All of the above. Whatever.
Say the entire right-wing media machine kicks to life and dismisses the whole thing as a scam — and conservatives believe them. The conservative base remains committed to Trump, politicians remain scared to cross the base, and US politics remains stuck in partisan paralysis, unable to act on what Mueller discovers.
In short, what if Mueller proves the case and it’s not enough? What if there is no longer anyevidentiary standard that could overcome the influence of right-wing media?
