Why This Raging Obsession With Trump?

Donald J. Trump

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At first glance, the outrage over the recent release of William Barr's summary of the Mueller report is puzzling.

After all AG Barr did quote a critical portion of that report that was very clear about their finding no evidence of Russian Collusion with the Trump team. He also quoted a portion that made no determination on obstruction, leaving that up to William Barr, who said he didn't find enough evidence of that charge either.

There is STILL a hysterical hope among some that, "When the entire report is released, we'll see that William Barr was wrong. There is STILL a determined belief among some that, "We WILL get him (Trump)."

WHY?

Why do so many refuse to accept the results of this report?

It's NOT ideological. It's NOT based in an opposition to bad policies. The economy is booming and there's no substantial support for, even a more open border policy. If there was, the same people would've been outraged by the very strident, anti illegal immigration comments Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama and others have made over the past decade. There was no such outrage then, so it would seem to indicate the current "outrage" is not genuine.

So, it seems to be a personal dislike of Trump's contentious personality, fueled by the "team sports" political environment that exists today, but there's more...something fanciful, but insidious.

There seems a hope among Democrats and "Progressives" that impeaching Trump would end what they see as "America's Nationalist nightmare."

No chance.

9/11 infused a large segment of the American people with a renewed sense of patriotism and national pride. In most, that passion has NOT diminished.

Worse still, two protracted and costly wars that continued into even costlier and bloody rebuilding efforts, attempting to remake some Middle Eastern countries over in our image, eroded the faith of many Americans in the priorities of their establishment leadership.

Add to that, a government created sub-Prime mortgage crisis, in which BOTH political Parties got behind an effort to loosen traditional lending criteria by banks that required government guaranteeing those sub-Prime loans. The result was a massive mortgage meltdown and subsequent global financial crisis.

The result of this was a complete loss of faith in America's establishment. That's been borne out by the fact that not a single establishment politician has won the Presidency since 2004.

In 2008, an unknown, inexperienced Illinois State Senator, Barack Obama, who won a U.S. Senate seat via scandal, came out of nowhere to overtake establishment Democrat, Hillary Clinton, to go on to beat a hapless John McCain. President Obama held that office for two consecutive terms and in 2016, the early expectations were for a Jeb/Hillary showdown.

What happened?

First, the GOP base put 4 outsiders, Trump, Carson, Fiorina and Cruz ahead of every GOP establishment (GOPe) candidate.

The DNC then rigged their Primaries to make sure Hillary Clinton was corronated. That worked. Unfortunately for them, Hillary Clinton never had a cause, nor even a reason why she should've been elected President, EXCEPT "It's my turn."

2016 was supposed to have been "a return to normalcy," a return to establishment rule and an end to the Nationalism that was ascendant across the globe. After all, we'd just spent a decade and a half and trillions of dollars trying to put down the Nationalism that arose in the Arab-Muslim world in the form of its return to strict, Sharia-based Islam.

The next target was supposed to be the Euro Nationalism that had blossomed across that continent. Had Hillary been elected  the EU would've been bolstered and the hope was that Euro Nationalism would be put down.

Instead, Steve Bannon has been working with European leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orban, Austria's Sebastian Kurz and Poland's Andrzej Duda. In Brazil, a Leftist government failed and, as a result, the very Nationalist, pro free market Jair Bolsonaro has been elected there.

The hope among American Liberals and "Progressives" that "ending Trump should end this American Nationalism," is a false one.

It doesn't end. The same people who helped fund Trump here will continue providing financial and material support to Bolsonaro and the Euro Nationalists and there's nothing we can do about that.

I'd suggest "Abandoning all hope" of any "return" to America's once highly touted Anglo-American Globalism/One Worldism.

There's no turning back from the extreme and growing polarization gripping this country, so long as the Left insists on trying to revive a dead Globalism/One Worldism.