The sins of 2018 Washington are far more morally bankrupt than we can even know. Today we are witnessing what happens when America abdicates its moral responsibility not only to itself but also to the rest of the world.   America is now run by a narcissistic white supremacist sex-tyrant and his two-bit goons who have turned their back on humanity in favor of self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement.  The mantle of leadership is intentionally being handed off to a Rogue’s Gallery of other tin-pot dictators and hoods more than delighted to jump into the void that such abdication of responsibility has created, to run the agenda for the chaotic new world order.  Cabals of oil-soaked Middle Eastern monarchs, racist Brexit douche bags, the Chinese Premier Xi Jinping who just crowned himself Dictator-4-Life, the democracy-cancelling Vlad the Impaler, and North Korean nut job Dear Leader Kim Jong Un are all gleefully ascendant these days, happily purging rivals and journalists without consequence left and right.  Even India’s Narendra Modi, who somehow came into power without money or family (the only two things that used to matter in Indian politics) to capture the imagination of a nation and the global Indian, has proven his default factory setting is “Ruthless Strongman.”  What a crying shame, all around.

A few of us versed in history already know how this ends.  We are experiencing a glitch in the system, and the anti-virus software is taking care of it as we speak.  I’ve written before that the last gasp of white male supremacy would go down not with a whimper, but with a prolonged fight and heavy costs.  That day is upon us all.  A war hero named Robert Mueller has agreed to enjoin this fight.  The anti-virus is already working his magic.  Mueller has quickly become the most important person in the entire US government apparatus.

Contrast if you will the ethically impeccable actions of this clean-cut boy scout with those of his screwball sewer rat opponents.  Whereas a crotchety, curmudgeonly, sexually deviant, and senile old gang of Trump, Giuliani, Stone, and their minions stumble around spewing incoherent brain farts, undisciplined verbal diarrhea and desperate attacks on law enforcement to the media and social media every hour, their nemesis Mueller has not uttered a single word since he dutifully took on by far the most important and challenging job of not only his, but our lifetimes.

Absence any words, there have been loud actions.  Well-written and bulletproof indictments, subpoenas, and arrests against Russians and the American traitors who conspired with them will continue to roll out under Mueller’s able supervision of the Legal Dream Team specially assembled for the task.  All evidence points straight to the top, and everyone in Washington already knows it even if they pretend not to.  Somewhere in the bowels of a nondescript DC office building, a man is quietly toiling, largely unrecognized, on our behalf.  That man is all that stands between us and dictatorship right now.

The GOP long ago dropped their soiled pants, bent over, and sold out the country when they selfishly nominated a wannabe dictator to lead them into authoritarian and fascist territory for their own short-term survival, long after they knew he cheated.   Meanwhile, the Republican-led Congress is such a heartless, spineless, corrupt and cruel joke in 2018, nobody even pretends that it’s meant to provide a hint of a check or balance on the executive branch anymore.  This Congress is the perfect kind of ruse you would love to abuse if you were a dictator masquerading as a f***ing president.

The Democrats are too weak to mount even a feeble unified resistance effort as they continue to fight their own petty internecine wars and struggle to stand for anything coherent, or coalesce around a leader or a vision.   Among the options for 2020 are tired old choices such as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, both of them likable enough yet constant reminders of how long they have been around the forefront of a hapless and stale losing team.

Sure, #BlueWave in 2018, #Resistance, Get Out the Vote, yada, yada! I even wrote about how I will finally call myself a Democrat for the first time in 2018 out of reluctant necessity.  But whatever happens in November, it won’t be good enough to guarantee that the glitch in our system will be wiped so we can finally reboot the laptop once and for all.  A blue wave, if it happens, might not be good enough to get an impeachment-worthy majority in both houses, which even a group of undeveloped fetuses swimming the backstroke in a kiddie pool of amniotic fluid should be able to achieve against an avowed dictator’s political party- the Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight themselves!- in the US of A in 2018.

Instead we are precariously dependent on an older white Republican man, of all people, so the party who screwed this all up so badly for us can take out their own trash.

All that’s left is our deeply flawed judicial system.   Even on its good days, the courts need executive branch prosecutors to bring strong and tight cases forward, because there is zero margin for error on the brink of dictatorship.  Robert Mueller is unusually well suited to the pressure and thanklessness of the role he is playing in US history.  His findings will be strong enough to end the charade of legitimacy and mockery of justice we have been forced into by 2019.   In the opinion of most legal scholars, that work is already done and Mueller is just poking around in search of gravy to strengthen the case further- and those spigots of gravy are spewing all over the map of treason, lies, and cheating as we speak.

The bad guys just don’t get it, and never will.  Mueller by all accounts is that rare prominent civil servant driven not by power, money, favor, fame, or glory.  He didn’t volunteer for the Vietnam War, or the current one, for any of those reasons.  He has no other ambitions beyond this job.  The man can neither be bought off, nor scared away. Those more predictable and base motivations drive his small-minded opponents who cheated their way out of war.  Refreshingly, Mueller does it because it’s right, though that’s not why he is going to win.

Mueller is going to win because some people are simply better than others.  Superior human beings tend to defeat inferior human beings in the long run, even when the losers cheat.

Mahanth S. Joishy is Editor of usindiamonitor

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