Draining the swamp, part thousand
J. Christian Adams has been on this theme for a long, long time. His latest:
The Scales of Justice come in two versions, one for Democrats and one for Trump.
Let’s examine those Justice Department “career lawyers.”
It is now plain that “career lawyer” isn’t a euphemism for unbiased and impartial. It’s exactly the opposite. It usually means Democrat, leftist, elitist, culturally hostile to middle America and feverishly anti-Trump.
When I was at the Department of Justice, it was no different. I wrote a whole wild book about the prevailing madness, years before the country got a taste of Andrew Weissmann’s partisan biases…
Trump has now learned the details of what is going on inside one Justice Department office, the D.C. United States Attorney’s office. He also learned details about people who accepted appointments in his administration and took their jobs while holding their noses.
This was the week that Trump got his sea-legs. He campaigned on draining the swamp, and he has learned how subtle and how sophisticated the swamp is.
Meanwhile, institutionalists, including some Republicans too cowardly to be quoted by name, have gone on record as clutching their pearls at Trump’s actions. They want the bureaucrats to be unmoored to the executive branch.
The “career lawyers” at the Justice Department did not stand for election and win. The entire Department should take note. There is a unitary executive. Elections matter. The President ran against the elites who are dispensing biased, sanctimonious unequal justice in Washington D.C.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that he is keeping his promises.
And of course, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Democrats, the MSM, and most of Washington DC is outraged.
Barr’s recent speech about the “unitary executive” caused great fear and trembling among the DC cognoscenti.
Democrats are accusing Trump of “weaponizing” the Department of Justice. As usual, they are projecting. As Adams summarizes, the zenith of DOJ weaponization was reached during the Obama administration.
It takes time to grasp the depth of swamp-dweller infestation across several government agencies. Milestones along the way revealed that the problem was worse than imagined. Similar to compounding interest, the deep state (political operatives posing as bureaucrats) over years hired fellow deep staters until most of Uncle Sam was consumed by parasitic rot. That process coincidentally mirrored the postmodernist takeover of academia.
Aside from a few high profile firings and prosecutions, cleanup at lower government levels will be tedious.
Trump should have started hunting out and hiring people like Christian Adams the day after his election.
The institutionalist Republicans? I’d guess that is a little different than the GOPe, though probably closely related.
For me the events and actions of the last few years have destroyed a lot of illusions, and demonstrated for me just how corrupt many parts of our government really are.
See Sundance’s take at https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/15/the-sentencing-of-michael-flynn-represents-a-very-big-problem-for-ag-bill-barr/
Sundance has two articles that everyone needs to read. The one about the Flynn sentencing noted above by Snow on Pine. Very important.
“the baseline is that Wolfe could not be prosecuted without running the risk of collapsing key institutions of the U.S. government. The consequences of a Wolfe prosecution were beyond the capacity of Rod Rosenstein, or the DOJ to handle. There would have been massive constitutional crises created and the literal definition of ‘sedition‘ was at the center of it.”
And the chaff and countermeasures one. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/14/chaff-and-countermeasures-senator-graham-asks-ag-bill-barr-for-spygate-and-fisa-witnesses/#more-183659
How frightened are the minions of the Deep State of Barr?
Check this story just out, about a supposed 1,100 former DOJ employees signing a letter calling for the resignation of current AG Barr, and urging current DOJ employees to stage an internal uprising against him.
See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/more-1100-ex-doj-officials-demand-barr-resign-call-for-current-doj-officials-to-rise-up-report-abuses-withdraw-from-cases-that-involve-misconduct/
Snow – CTH has made it onto my very short must-read-daily list.
“And of course, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Democrats, the MSM, and most of Washington DC is outraged.”
I would say that much of the outrage at that level is feigned. Deep down…? I think they are terrified… as well they should be.