Image credit: The February 27, 2017 cover of TIME
======================================
Trump: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
American Thinker
by Christopher Chantrill
5/23/2017
Excerpt:
A week is a long time in politics. That’s what British politician Harold Wilson probably said.
But there is no doubt about the length of last week of Donald Trump’s presidency. And all about what? Siccing the IRS on the ACLU? Lying about an embarrassing treaty with the Russians? Oh no. Just mean girl talk about “so you know he, like, talked to the Russians, OMG?” Yes, we have finally come full circle on McCarthyism, with liberals running around shouting that “in my hand I have the names of 13 people in the Trump campaign that colluded with Russian agents to steal the election!”
I think — I hope — that this hysterical panic about nothing is a gift to the Trump White House. If President Trump and his people are worth anything they are learning fast and even now, as Donald Trump and Co. are Air-Force-One-ing around the Middle East they learning their lessons and are planning how to defeat the media swamp and the Deep State bureaucracy.
Ah yes, bureaucracy. There is a great piece this week by Theodore Dalrymple about his experience working in a British government bureaucracy. He leads into it by talking about a Russian that just could not make it in the Soviet bureaucracy.
The kind of person who succeeded in the Soviet Union was the kind of person I met who succeeded in the British bureaucracies with which I had to deal in my work. They were either without ability, in which case they resembled the talentless hacks whom Dovlatov met in the Soviet literary world: “They made up for the absence of talent by perfect loyalty to power.” Or, if they had ability and intelligence, they suppressed its exercise for the sake of a quiet and comfortable life.
I think — I hope — that all the Susan Rice unmaskings and the anonymous leaks are the work of mediocre bureaucrats that are eager to bring the president down, but not willing to risk their salaries and pensions in that fight.
…………………………………………………
View the complete article including links and comments at: