Thread by @JewhadiTM

The Ruling Class’s Interference in Our Democracy

Andrew McCabe is their poster boy. spectator.org/the-ruling-cla…

It is clear that the United States government, far more than the Russian one, interfered in the 2016 campaign.

Figures throughout the Obama administration were using their power to investigate Hillary Clinton’s opponent and leaking that information to pols like Harry Reid and sympathetic members of the press to hurt Trump.

Many of those figures — from @JohnBrennan to @Comey to @AmbassadorRice — appear on television these days displaying the very anti-Trump bias that drove their official actions during the campaign.

We’re told gravely that the Mueller and Congressional investigations aim to protect the people’s democracy “from interference.” Were that the case, they would focus on the collusion between the Hillary campaign and the Obama admin, not to mention her use of the foreign spy Steele

Instead, the champions of Mueller seem to glory in the ruling class’s interference in democracy. They are now purring over reports that members of the FBI and Justice Department conducted discussions about removing a duly elected president via the 25th Amendment.

That politicized members of the FBI, operating like a rogue agency in a Third World country, wanted to void the election in effect doesn’t concern members of the media and the ruling class in the slightest.

From the moment of Trump’s election, they have treated him as illegitimate and cheered every attempt to subvert his constitutional authority. Brennan famously called on members of the executive branch to defy the chief executive.

All of this constitutes a much more serious threat or our democracy than anything Russia might have tried. It amounts to an attempt by a self-appointed ruling class to wrest democracy away from the people. The people elected Trump with their eyes wide open.

It should outrage the people that unelected bureaucrats at the FBI and Justice Department officials were thinking of ways to nullify their choice.

For elitists who seek to manipulate elections and resist their outcomes, McCabe is a natural hero. But it is his judgment, not the president’s, that deserves scrutiny. An inspector general has already found that he engaged in criminal leaking and lied about it.

His upcoming memoir no doubt contains fresh lies. That such a dubious figure was trying to oust a president is the obvious scandal. The people can vote Trump out of office in 2020 if they consider his judgment defective.

But the McCabes who burrow into government and substitute their judgment for the people’s are not so easily dislodged. If any subversion of democracy cries out for special investigations, it is that one.