The Great Security Clearance Purge has dominated headlines for the past couple of days, mainly because Trump is enjoying his unfettered power to punish people who displease him and it gives reporters a new reason to be shocked, shocked at his disrespect for norms. What most of those reporters are missing is how out-of-character it is for high-ranking intelligence community officials to speak about politics at all, so the public is apt to underestimate the dangers they are warning about. The New Yorker points out that Trump has been toying with this for quite a while.
That’s partly because the media still insists on giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, unwilling to confront the obvious reality of a treasonous president. As a result, stories like the one about Russian government hackers going after anti-Trump conservative groups are offered up without much context instead of being presented as further evidence of the obvious.
Funny thing about all those laments about how Trump’s thuggish behavior has irrevocably changed politics — most such articles, like this one from Damon Linker at The Week, are written as if both sides have descended into the sewer, instead of pointing out that Republicans alone are behaving this way.
Will the DNC ever learn it has no constituency? Apparently not. They plan to have Hillary Clinton headline fund-raisers for candidates in three blue states. Living in the past isn’t just for Confederacy fans anymore.