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Great stuff from Counterpunch again

 
Commie 2017-02-19 11:10:52 

Roaming Charges on Flynn

 
birdseye 2017-02-19 12:14:46 

In reply to Commie

So in essence – Trump wants to be another Putin
A very cogent article - I particularly like the use of the word “antinomian” – I think that word sums up TRUMP to the core

As the media scourging of Flynn mounted, no one was heard rallying to the general’s defense, except for a few distant bleats on RT and SputnikNews. Flynn had burned his bridges with the political elites, which can be an honorable, if suicidal, career choice. The general was, no doubt, banking on the loyalty of Trump to save his ass. But he would learn a harsh lesson about the power dynamics of his Master’s circle. In Trumpland, loyalty is a one-way, and often dead-end, street. In fact, the relationship is not really about loyalty at all. It’s a matter of absolute obedience. And even then, one must understand that even the most obedient are expendable.

Flynn was a head case, out of his depth in the position he suddenly found himself thrust in, whose conspiratorial view of the world synched so closely with Donald Trump’s own that as soon as Trump fired him he seemed to regret it.

He is, after all, our first antinomian president, a man whose psyche is unclouded by any moral laws.

The president sees himself as an oligarch among oligarchs and his intention is to run the federal government as his own private fiefdom.

This struggle is all playing out in a wild new political ecosystem in Washington, where the polarities of power pit the foreign policy establishment, the mainstream press and the intelligence agencies against Trump’s visigoths. The Democrats are all but irrelevant, reduced to little more than background noise. Trump has been in power for a month and the rhetorical niceties of Obamatime already seem like a kind of pre-history. We’ve entered a time when the mad dogs are leading the mad men.