The Slate Gabfest Gang - This is what passes for 'informed opinion' on the left in current day USA - 'honey-badger' partisans
It is the super-duper quandary of the moment: choose between the oafish, charmless, and possibly not-so-stable-genius Leader-of-the-Free-World... and a security state that will do
whatever it takes to get rid of him, for instance, engineering a nationwide hysteria over Russia.
Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the so-called "Resistance" has all along included the state security apparatus in its every sordid iteration - the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, and God knows how many others among the touted "seventeen security agencies" who supposedly ginned up the Russian Meddling story on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. Movements that affect to be revolutionary don't usually turn to the secret police and their equivalents for aid and comfort.
The Resistance pulled out all the stops last week in its shrieking denunciation of the Nunes Memo, and the various complaints had one thing in common: a complete lack of interest in the facts of the matter, in particular the shenanigans in the upper ranks of the FBI. Give a listen, for instance, to last
Thursday's Slate's Political Gabfest with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon, the three honey-badgers of Resistance Radio (like the fabled honey-badgers of the veldt,
they don't give a shit about any obstacles in their pursuit of their quarry: Trump). They've even been able to one-up Nassim Taleb's defined category of "intellectuals-yet-idiots" to intellectuals-yet-useful-idiots.
Comment: If one's ever considered themself to be a 'liberal' or a 'progressive', now's a great time to evaluate all the assumptions, biases and data that has informed that perspective. Doesn't mean that one's wrong about everything, or even most things, it's just that like any other ideology - it, and the forces that have been steering it, are quite often seldom questioned, if at all.