Trumpservative nation at the precipice

Official wrap-ups of tragic events can be very appealing. The Warren Commission, lone gunman, Oswald, a Commie sympathizer, with his rifle and lucky shots from the book depository. No need to speculate about the mob, the CIA, Fidel Castro. No need to agonize over who else might have been on the grassy knoll. Wrap it up—the sick bastard—and let the healing began.

Or—there had to be more to it, can’t believe Oswald’s bullets did what they said they did. There is something very wrong going on in this country.  

Lady Diana’s death was all wrapped up with a nice bow, and we could sleep on it. Yes, the “people’s princess” had been abandoned by Prince Charles, the queen, and the queen mother. A thoughtful, philanthropically inclined woman, she couldn’t abide the manor house anteroom they’d dusted for her. Wrong for Prince Charles, hadn’t seen her kids in months, something of a rogue, and yet—

—an Arab playboy. A drugged and drunken French security chief at the wheel, off-duty but called back to work. High speeds in the tunnel to escape the loathsome paparazzi. It made the kind of sense we wanted it to make: if only she’d kept her place, a royal single mom, tarnished but alive.  The official version of what happened in Paris that night would not go undisputed. To this day the ashes smolder in the minds of people we call “conspiracy theorists,” who tweak our thinking with second thoughts and unsettling doubts. We desperately want to believe that the royal family would never be capable of orchestrating something like Diana’s death, but maybe the official version is too neatly packaged for us.

The 9/11 “truther” conspiracy theories are perhaps the most egregious, a dark chapter in the history of paranoid theorems. The Jews didn’t come to work that day. Bush and Cheney let it happen to foment war. Controlled demolition. Regarding the events of September 11, 2001, fortunately, the official version conclusively triumphed.

Back to Mueller. If his investigation comes up with nada, the president’s vociferous critics, the Nevers, and leftist ideologues whose very existence has become plagued and devalued by Trump’s victory, will not give up the Russian ghost easily. As we reach the 45^th anniversary of the beginning of the Watergate trial, which eventually brought down President Richard Nixon, there are sharks in the water. They will turn on Mueller, their erstwhile savior, and likely question the integrity of his investigation. The left will remain angry, become angrier.

But if Mueller has built an evidentiary case against the president, however spurious, the take-down Democrats are salivating over will be greatly facilitated.

Of those who celebrate and support President Donald Trump, those who believed from the beginning and those who have come to believe, a bottomless sense of betrayal and civic hopelessness will descend. They will be suspicious of Mueller’s official version and resigned to the reality that the Deep State is ultimately unstoppable when threatened and that there are entrenched powers that not even a Constitution, a free Republic, or a great people can withstand.

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