Requiem for Sanity

What’s interesting about the newest episode in the White House comedy-drama is the disappearance of all pretense of sanity. Take the newest so called FBI investigation into sexual misconduct by a Trump nominee to the highest court. The FBI’s mandate is: “you have a week to do whatever you can, except interview key witnesses and anyone else we forbid you to talk to.”

This is such an obvious farce that one wonders why they even bothered to perform in it. Who, other than the permanently mentally handicapped, could give credence to this newest mockery of justice?

However, the juicy details of attempted rape is not the most important issue here. The most important spectacle was the accused, who is supposed to be a legal scholar, earmarked for the highest legal office of he US government, unmasking himself, in his defense, as a party hack. Not intent on upholding the law, defending the constitution, being an impartial champion of truth, but attacking his party’s critics and opponents in the most vituperative, hateful, poisonous manner you would expect from a fundamentalist preacher frothing at the mouth, invoking his fear and loathing against the devil.

Are you sure this is the person, appointed for life, you want to have a sway in legal matters, affecting the future of your country?