Thread by @caitoz

Who The #Resistance Was Actually #Resisting These Last Four Years

"The #Resistance was not created to resist the powerful, it was created to resist you."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/who-the-resi…

After it was announced that the Biden camp had selected a Raytheon board member as his secretary of defense, I joked in my last article that it would be more honest if Raytheon itself was Biden's Pentagon chief since the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people anyway.

Anyway, since that rant NPR has reported that the the next US director of agriculture will be a man named Tom Vilsack, whose corporate cronyism the last time he occupied the same position earned him the nickname (I shit you not) "Mr Monsanto".

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1336465955615105025

Which is just too perfect for words, really.

Bloomberg reports:

Biden's self-parody of a cabinet is already shaping up to be as chock full of corporate swamp monsters as Trump's notoriously corrupt administration. President Biden is going to be just as much of a corrupt warmongering oligarch crony as his predecessors.
jacobinmag.com/2020/12/david-…

Which makes one wonder, what exactly was the point of the #Resistance and what has it been #Resisting all these years?

The Resistance™ was aggressively marketed by cynical liberal spinmeisters like Neera Tanden with the goal of harnessing and maintaining the enthusiastic grassroots anti-establishment energy of the Bernie Sanders campaign and directing it against Trump.
politico.com/story/2016/12/…

But what did it actually accomplish? In the end, all the so-called Resisters ended up doing was promoting a bunch of Russia conspiracy theories and an impeachment which failed to remove Trump, all while providing no actual resistance to Trump's most pernicious policies.

This is because the #Resistance was never actually intended to resist the evil agendas of the powerful, nor even to resist Trump. The #Resistance was not created to resist the powerful, it was created to resist you.

On a recent interview with MSNBC Sanders himself is heard complaining that the progressive base whose votes put Biden over the top in November are so far receiving no representation whatsoever within the incoming Biden cabinet.

https://twitter.com/Ibrahimpols/status/1336424504575324160

"And my point has been from day one that those voices, that movement, deserves representation in the cabinet. And if your question is have I seen that yet, no I have not."

Of course you haven't, Bernie. You were never going to.

(Just as an aside, this was an actual thing.)
supersizetheresistance.com

The #Resistance spun itself as a revolutionary movement against the insidious forces of darkness threatening the United States of America. What it delivered was support for Trump's world-threatening cold war escalations against Russia,

, the mass delusion that America's problems can be fought from within the establishment, progressives impotently chasing their tails for four years, and a presidency that is going to be just as much of a murderous oligarchic rim job as was delivered by Trump administration.

The engineers of the "Resistance" did not want to eliminate Trumpian depravity, they just wanted to be the ones driving it. And now they are. If you fed into this nonsense in any way over the last four years, this is your reward.

Which begs the question: if an entire political faction needed to sacrifice all its principles, all its values and all its morality to get rid of Trump... what exactly was the point of getting rid of Trump?