Go Ahead, Rod – No, Don’t!

Two of my heroes – well, a hero and a heroine – Rachel Maddow and Lucian K. Truscott IV, have different takes on Trump’s “hereby demand” that the FBI investigate its investigation of him and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s kicking it over to the DOJ’s Inspector General.

Rachel thinks that Rosenstein is wimping out – again – and that the DOJ has already given up too much to Trump and his congressional henchmen. 

Lucian thinks that it was a brilliant move by Rosenstein, sort of a political rope-a-dope to keep Robert Mueller in the ring with Trump until he – or the prosecutors in New York – can land a haymaker, which he feels is inevitable. 

Then, parenthetically, there’s my man Michael Ivennati, who never tires of predicting that Trump won’t make it to the end of his first term.

I don’t know where I am on all this. I am an inordinately patient person, yet there is a totally angered part of me that wants Rosenstein to finally tell Trump to go fuck himself, let the chips fall where they may. The chips would be, of course, that Trump fires Rosenstein and keeps firing people until he gets some traitorous asshole in the DOJ who would step up and do his bidding, which is to shut down the Mueller investigation (never mind that the New York investigation can’t be shut down).

Ostensibly, this modern Saturday Night Massacre would mean that Trump has finally broken the last strand of the rule of law and that America finds itself in the oft-cited and dreaded Consitutional Crisis.

Would the citizenry take to the streets in outrage? Of course. Would it mean anything? The Women’s March was the biggest protest in American history and the arch misogynist is still in the White House. You tell me.

Would it mean anything to the Republicans who control Congress? To some maybe, but they’d remain mealy-mouthed and acquiescent, as usual.

On the other hand, what if Rosenstein’s move pays off and the Mueller investigation grinds inexporably on. Could be, but a pig like Trump is probably going to keep demanding the impossible from the DOJ until it becomes impossible for Rosenstein to comply with any vestige of honor or legality and we get our Constitutional Crisis and wherever it leads. 

Yet I see some daylight if the country can stagger on to the mid-term elections without martial law or a nuclear war with Korea after Trump fucks up the Singapore Summit—if there actually is one.

I fervently hope that there are enough voting patriots left to turn this basket of traitors out and take control of the Congress and go about the necessary and inevitable impeachment of Donald J. Trump and, after he is out of office, levy the host of criminal charges that he has earned and put him in jail for the rest of his unnatural life.

Of course, the future is unknowable and mysterious and unpredictable. Like life.