Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, November 29, 2018

State of Flux

Things are all over the place with the Mueller probe.  Josh Marshall is right, in that we have no idea what this actually means.

My hunch is that you have a lot of people under a lot of pressure – making reckless moves, taking desperate actions, pulling ejection seat cords. They’re making wild moves. Some are lying. Some of the new details are accurate. But it’s hard to distinguish between the real information and the smoke and distractions various players are tossing up into the air. The confusion isn’t simply confusion. It’s a sign that something big is taking shape. What it is won’t be clear until Mueller speaks – figuratively.

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