Peace and War

The growing push to defeat Trump by any of the following means:

• Taking the CIA’s warmongering on faith and blaming Vladimir Putin for everything,
• Accusing the FBI,
• Pressing for majority rule despite the electoral college,
• Protesting voters being stripped from the rolls,
• Objecting to intimidation at the polls,
• Trying to undo the blocking of votes by those lacking IDs,
• Remedying broken and insufficient and unverifiable machines,
• Counting paper ballots where they exist,
• Threatening impeachment over Trump’s unconstitutional presents and emoluments from foreign nations unless he sells his foreign businesses,
• Arguing for disqualification on the ground of mental illness,
• Praying and fantasizing,

would be far more energized and popular if the “defeated” candidate were Bernie Sanders, who — judging by all existing polling (and theorizing what his general election campaign would have looked like) — would almost certainly not have been defeated by any means in the first place.

It’s worth thinking for a moment what could have been done differently. The corporate media could have not acted like the corporate read more