How Deep Is Their Love . . . For Mother Russia?

Not to speak for anyone else, but The Gadfly is a bit unnerved about the quite large pachyderm that just burst in to the room, that people and the media apparently have not yet realized - in that with Mueller's Russia indictments, this country is now treading perceptibly more dangerous waters as a functioning democracy.

Observe:

And the material in the indictment—which you can read for yourself here—outlines a thoroughly complete campaign of ratfcking aimed exclusively at electing Donald Trump to be president of the United States. This was Donald Segretti on steroids, with the power of a huge apparatus behind them.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a18212230/what-mueller-indictments-mean/

What The Gadfly perceives Charlie Pierce to be saying here is  that this is likely to be the mother of all political scandals historically unfolding right before all of our eyes here dear readers..

Drumpf's back is up against the wall.  He's flailing.  His protesting Tweets are less enthusiastic rehashes of older Twitter denials of wrongdoing.  He looks haggard, he sounds haggard.  His wife can't stand to be near him and avoids public displays of affection with him like he's got active leprosy.  He's got sex scandals hopping out of the bushes at him like rabbits.  He's had so much top level turnover in his administration, that more than a year in to his presidency, there is a crisis level, credible leadership gap, from the top down to - fuck, who knows? -  and it's worsening by the week.

His back, already on the wall, inches in the direction of the nearest corner.  What does he do now?

This is where the danger part comes.

And it boils down to a single question that The Gadfly has been asking repeatedly in previous week's and month's posts --- and that question still is - HOW DEEP?   How deep does the Russia fondling rot go? - within the conservative movement primarily - but not just politically deep - how really, really, really D E E P does it go?

The Gadfly believes one of two things is very likely to happen here.

Either - Mueller's pace of indictments continues unabated, and former people in Drumpf's political orbit continue to be flipped by Mueller and commit to cooperation with the investigation and the noose incrementally continues to tighten . . . . . and every new indictment and every new plea deal effectively guarantees that the American people are going to be presented with a great many unpleasant truths in the answers to the depth question and be called upon to make some likely grave decision making.

Or -- OR! . . . Drumpf sees the writing on the wall and does a Saturday Night Massacre on Rosenstein and Mueller and then it's full steam on ahead constitutional crisis time.

And what would be the outcome of that scenario? . . .  Law and Order and the United States Constitution against Authoritarianism? . . . . . . hmmmm ...

How deep??








----TFG