I think that’s a very astute point…which is why I’d like to see anyone accused of, say, insider trading to be adulated, congratulated, promoted, encouraged, awarded for ingenuity, innovation and thinking outside the box—while making large swaths of the population wealthier (if one follows certain aspects of “trickle-down” theory to their logical—or perhaps illogical—conclusion).

And instead we throw the book at these guys! How utterly misconceived! We really should show more understanding to these altruistic capitalists.

I think you might mean ‘malpractice’. ‘Malfesance’, ‘misfeasance’, and ‘nonfeasance’ refer to official misconduct. To Sztrok and McCabe, not to the Sulzbergers or Anderson Cooper.

Yes, it is understandable if you do not consider yourself a public servant or even an equal citizen but the ruler of others.

Mike

And a lot of us talk about the “deep state”, that is, those civil servants who were left over after Trump took office, and who presumably preferred Hillary to Trump before the election. I have often likened most of Washington to fish swimming in a Democratic ocean, who don’t have enough contact outside the beltway to know they are, in fact, rabid ideologues on the left. Given that everyone around them believes the same way, how could it be different?

But we also need to recognize that very few people in Washington in the lead up to the 2016 election could ever, in their wildest dreams, imagine that Trump would win the election. They aren’t knaves or fools (although they come close to being fools), nor are they necessarily denizens of the swamp. They just didn’t have any familiarity with “flyover country” and probably never heard another person say anything positive about Trump.

I remember attending a Trump rally in Reno in late 2015. I was not a Trump supporter, but I wanted to see him in action. It was amazing. I was among the believers. These people, who packed the ballroom in the Nugget, knew the slogans, the applause lines, and were committed supporters. It was a population of thousands I was totally unfamiliar with and therefore unprepared to expect.

Now transfer that experience to the people in the coastal enclaves, watching MSM coverage of the Hillary and Trump campaigns, and you (or at least I) can understand how Strzok and Page and all the others at the FBI could do what they did in the full expectation Hillary would be inaugurated in January 2017 and their actions, if ever discovered, would appear to be rational and even laudatory.

Horowitz’ testimony before the Senate gives us a little insight into this frame of mind. Strzok et al might honestly may have believed they were doing the right thing. Yes, they were foolish in that belief, but it is understandable. And Horowitz is understandable in reaching the conclusions he did.

The MSM, on the other hand, were either inexcusable or incompetent. Or perhaps enemies of the American experience. Yes, I’d like to see the FISC closed and the FBI completely turned over. But even more, I would like to see the MSM made to own up to their misfeasance. Democracy not only dies in darkness, it also dies in the light — the light of deluded idealogical purity.

It’s worse than that. They think quite well of themselves for it and cannot process arguments to the contrary. At all.”

This is exactly what I see constantly in my FB. A vast mass of my school and work acquaintances hold all of the leftist thought about orangemanbad as literal, gospel truth; they would sooner accept that water is not wet than question any part of it. And it’s not just that it’s obvious truth that cannot be questioned by anyone with a functioning brain, they assume that anyone who even considers anything to the contrary, much less believes it, is not just wrong but absolutely evil: stupid, racist, bigoted, sexist, Nazi orangemanbad supporters and defenders. Against that backdrop, there’s no wedge to start one of Remnant’s precious “civil and dispassionate dialogues.”

I saw this really kick into high gear around the beginning of the “Punch a Nazi” era. It was chilling. Some of these people posting social media memes glorifying attacking real or imagined Trump supporters were people I’d known for 20 years. To see chubby, balding middle-age parents who had never been in a physical altercation in their life (I know because I went to school with them) suggesting figuratively or literally that one should go around attacking people who might have voted for a President they don’t like, was down-the-rabbit-hole stuff. I suddenly saw what happened in Germany in the 1930s. These are people who have actively dehumanized political opponents. There is no such thing as rights or due process of the law for us. They are not interested in whether proper process was followed during what was obviously a politically motivated travesty of justice; they honestly couldn’t care less if every rule in the book was broken. It’s all good when you’re going after Trump and his untermenschen.

“You told President Trump in early 2017 that the content of the Steele Dossier was “salacious and unverified.” The Horowitz report says that the Steele Dossier was the basis for FISA surveillance of Trump. When did you know that the contents of the Steele Dossier was “salacious and unverified?”

It’s worse than that. They think quite well of themselves for it and cannot process arguments to the contrary. At all.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Damned shame. Now people will have to die in undiscovered terror acts. This is what Barack Obama brought us. Thanks, Obama.