Are we back to Square One?

Is the United States back to Square One?

On Wednesday, January 13, a number of establishment Republicans in the House of Representatives folded like cheap suits in the unprecedented second impeachment vote.

It's probably easier for them to exist and get re-elected under the Uniparty system.

Two days before that, on January 11, Unconstrained Analytics posted an article, 'The Republican Establishment is the Left's Defeat Mechanism'. How true.

It's quite lengthy, but here's a summary (emphases in the original unless otherwise stated):

As a controlled opposition, this means they were really never going to be in the role of helping the American public who supported President Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda. On January 6, we saw a lot of demoralized people watching one Republican leader after another come down on them and come down on the MAGA movement (which is the base that elects them), and they did it without any despair about it nor did they pretend they are distraught.

That brings up the idea that a controlled opposition of that nature is so reliable that they became the Left’s defeat mechanism (method of defeating the opponent). People are demoralized right now because they saw their leaders that they elected to stop this jump on board. The Left’s goal is to disenfranchise YOU, the base. But they can’t do that until you are demoralized. Well, everyone is demoralized. Who demoralized them? The Republican establishment when they did what they did.

It’s not until you are demoralized that the Left can really come after you with a vengeance and disenfranchise you. But we then have to take the upside of that. We know that our feeling of demoralized is part of their strategy so one of the first things we have to do is say we’re NOT going to participate in your strategy.

On Friday, January 15, Karl Denninger of the Market-Ticker wrote about the mounting evidence that the January 6 siege on the Capitol had been planned for some time, yet it resulted in Trump's second impeachment by the House. He rightly points out:

And, since we now have hard proof and even CNN is admitting this was "pre-planned" the impeachment of Trump is obvious nonsense and must be immediately dismissed but there are plenty of House and Senate members who must be impeached, removed from office and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, never again to hold a position of profit within the United States Government.

I couldn't agree more.

On the day of Trump's second impeachment, investigative reporter John Solomon gave an interview to Eric Greitens, a host on Real America's Voice, which posts on YouTube. Here is an excerpt from the transcript (emphases mine):

JOHN SOLOMON, JUST THE NEWS: There is significant evidence beginning to emerge of three things. One, that the Capitol Police, the NYPD, the FBI all had prior warning there was going to be an attack on the Capitol...

How did the leaders of Congress react to this intel? Did it get to them? Did Nancy Pelosi know? Secondly, if this was a planned attack, you can't be a president of the United States being accused of inciting a spontaneous attack when it was planned days before. From an impeachment perspective and a factual security perspective, we're learning things and we shouldn't be in the posture of making final assignments of blame until we know what the facts are.

ERIC GREITENS, HOST: What are we learning? What's the latest right now that we know from the interviews that we're doing with investigators and with police?

JOHN SOLOMON, JUST THE NEWS: I've been told that some of the key security on the Capitol -- the Sergeants of Arms of the House and Senate and the Capitol Police Chief, all three who have resigned -- have had some contact, some sort of interviews with the Metropolitan Police Department which is the lead investigative agent now.

We FOIA'd those reports this morning and we got... a response almost instantly from the police department saying we're not releasing the information and here's why. It's going to be personally embarrassing, privacy-invading to release the information. It doesn't make sense. These were public officials. Their job was security. What they told police should be a matter of public record.

We're going to fight for those documents. But something tells me what's in those documents has some very, very big relevance to what happened on The Hill.

The question I have is what did Nancy Pelosi, what did Mitch McConnell know about these threats beforehand? If they didn't know, it's an intelligence failure of the police. If they did know, there's something they didn't tell us before we went into this impeachment round today.

The next day, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro sounded off to Fox Business's Maria Bartiromo:

"I will say to these people on Capitol Hill, knock it off," Navarro told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo. "Stop this. Let the man leave peacefully with his dignity. He was the greatest jobs president, the greatest trade negotiator we have ever had in this country's history. This is just wrong what they're doing."

Navarro also insisted "if the election was held today" Trump would win again, and "that's what the Democrats fear."

"I have never been more pissed off in my life at this place, and I think 74 million Americans who voted for President Trump feel exactly the same way," said Navarro.

Last Friday, two days after Trump's second House impeachment, OAN interviewed information warfare expert Phil Waldron, who said that he and his team are studying packet transfers from both the presidential and Georgia senate run-off races. He said that these data went to a number of foreign countries, e.g. China, then were routed back to specific US counties, among them Antrim County in Michigan. All of this served to fraudulently increase votes for the Democrats.

James Howard Kunstler, a Democrat supporter who is not a Trump fan by any description, thinks that the US president has been wronged, from Russiagate to the present:

In both of these gigantic flimflams, the president could not get any satisfactory scrutiny of the injuries attempted against him, because the ops were run by the very agencies needed to provide that scrutiny over unlawful official behavior. Did the DOJ and its stepchild, the FBI, show any interest in the recent voting irregularities, or is it just convenient to let it all slide so they can answer to a new president, with a clear and urgent interest in burying the matter?

Is it any wonder that a huge chunk of the population doesn’t believe the election was on-the-level? Federal law enforcement has not revealed the identities of exactly who incited the invasion of the Capitol building — and do you believe who The New York Times and CNN claim it was: white supremacist Nazis? Has it not occurred to the “winner” and his handlers that such a public mood of distrust will thunder through our national affairs going forward?

He posits that the Dems, who have enjoyed being known as the Resistance since November 9, 2016, could get their comeuppance in the days to come:

It’s late in the game but something appears to still be in play, and the Resistance is keenly aware of it: a trove of declassified documents laying out their crimes against their own countrymen. Nothing has stuck to the Resistance because they controlled the levers of adjudication. What if, under the extraordinary conditions of the moment, those levers are transferred to one arm of the government that has not disgraced itself: the military? I wrote in this blog more than once in recent years that political disorder could lead to this. Has that moment come?

Thousands of troops are billeted in and around Washington DC now. Why is that? The figment of more white supremacists coming to reenact last week’s incident at the Capitol? I don’t think so. A BLM / Antifa riot, like the ones staged in cities (including Washington DC) all through the summer and fall? (Weren’t they mostly peaceful?) Or is something else up, something that will mark an epochal shift in the fortunes of the USA?

One can but hope. I am surprised that Kunstler has raised those questions.

With Joe Biden quickly rolling back Trump's initiatives, all of which were helping America, it seems that the RINOs can sleep comfortably once again.

The Uniparty is still alive and well. The Swamp will become ever deeper.