And it's all happening in the context of a worldwide movement against bubbled, self-interested, incompetent elites who no longer "represent" their electorates in any meaningful sense. The Left badly misread the moment.
The amazing thing about Impeachment Theater was watching the "star witnesses" claim they had power and privileges no mere President of the United States could ever touch. How dare Trump defy "their" policies! How dare he sack the made men and women of the permanent elite?
The whole point of the sleazy Democrat impeachment scam was to assert the primacy of the permanent bureaucracy over mere elected government. Your votes don't matter, and if you deplorables vote wrong, the Eternal State will "fix" your mistakes.
Only those trapped inside a political bubble or social media hall of mirrors could fail to understand how poorly this would play with the American people, when the big story around the world is people losing patience with arrogant and inept elites.
What's happening everywhere from Hong Kong to Brexit and the U.S. is people rejecting the absolute rule of the administrative state and demanding a real say in government, votes that really matter, representation that counts for something.
Many of those people have yet to realize that some - honestly, most - ideologies are inherently hostile to the kind of representation they want, but they definitely grasp that sneering elites who want to "globalize" power so it's beyond the reach of any electorate are a problem.
And they definitely understand that supreme power should not be vested in permanent bureaucrats who never have to face the voters, and who very definitely have selfish interests they will gladly abuse their power to protect. They didn't realize how bad it had gotten until now.
In America, the revolt against the administrative state really got going under the Obama administration, an ineptocracy of breathtaking arrogance whose every initiative was a hideously expensive disaster. Dems misread this because their media refused to report that "narrative."
The long series of Obama-era faceplants made the administrative state look awful, and once it demonstrated that it couldn't deliver the goods, the patience of the public wore thin. The managerial elite will always have its clients, of course, but everyone else is fed up.
It's weird to see the "Resistance" singing hosannas to permanent bureaucrats at the very moment when public confidence in them has cratered. They bizarrely expect people to root for the unelected and unaccountable against the guy they all get to vote for, or against.
Of COURSE it's backfiring. The managerial elite and its media staff are baffled. They don't understand the public at all, and they don't WANT to. For decades they suppressed a revolt against the elite by convincing everyone it's impossible. In 2016 voters called their bluff. /end
