-by EmorejI. Drilling through lies of Karl Rove’s forked tongue reveals true fork in roadA reliable path towards achieving progressive political goals is to oppose all goals of Karl Rove-- after first drilling down to find them.A. An Attack Dog Not Baring Teeth is SuspiciousKarl Rove, after a career of built on dirty wars against good government, and against all Progressive values, whether held by Bernie Sanders or professed by Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden, now commends the respect (for “the great common sense of ordinary Americans”) underlying the Pelosi-Biden-Bernie skepticism about impeaching Trump, which Rove summarizes as follows:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) doesn’t want to put her majority at risk by plunging into impeachment. And the two current frontrunners in the Democratic presidential contest-- Biden and Sanders-- have refused to join the lesser lights in the primary in demanding Trump’s impeachment.
This comes near the end of Rove’s recent article (archived here). Rove’s article starts with the argument that:
President Trump and his defenders can successfully attack former Special Counsel Robert Mueller or congressional Democrats on impeachment-- but not both... So the president and his advocates should keep it simple and focus on Congress, not Mueller
B. Decoding Rove’s “Not Political” Label of Mueller The above comments fit smoothly into Rove’s brutally earned and relentlessly cultivated brand as a cutting edge practitioner of values-free political cynicism. But, in light of this brand, what can we learn from Rove’s further assertion as follows?
Unintentionally (because he’s a law enforcement professional and not political), Mueller’s actions again disappointed the Democratic firebrands who want Trump impeached.
This assertion requires layers of decoding in light of the fact that Rove’s primary audience, of political insiders, knows Rove’s history:
· Rove was a ground-breaking politicizer of security/intelligence agencies’ analysis and public statements, and· Rove was the beneficiary of highly politicized decisions not to prosecute him for lying under oath, to a previous Justice Department investigation, into Rove’s arguably treasonous leaking of national security secrets about the CIA’s undercover network abroad-- in order to deter truth-telling about the lies told to justify the US invasion of Iraq.
C. Rove’s Decoded FearsRove’s message to political insiders (and wannabees) seems to include the following:
· Tearing down of public trust, in federal law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies, should be slowed or reversed. (Why? We can infer that Rove sees a risk of killing the goose, of federal and imperial power, from which Rove and his clients have extracted so many golden eggs.)· Impeachment proceedings against Trump should be avoided. (Why? We can infer that Rove foresees that impeachment would provoke Trump loyalist counterattacks containing allegations and/or evidence of even more politicization and illegality of federal law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies.)
II. Implications for Bernie Supporters?A. Context (Premises)
· Federal law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies are the most dangerous weapon of the establishment.· The establishment is ever-less unified on any goal other than to block Bernie from interfering with their golden egg harvesting.
B. Causation (Predicted)
· Only if the establishment fails to block him can Bernie peacefully achieve the power to fundamentally reorient major federal policies.· A necessary precondition, of their failing to block Bernie (peacefully or otherwise) is for the establishment and its deadliest agencies to continue losing both public trust and internal unity.
C. Conclusion: Trump’s Impeachment Good for BernieThe most likely (and perhaps only) scenario, which could enable Bernie’s peaceful triumph, includes impeachment proceedings that, by means of competing disclosures by different elite factions, further expose the politicization and illegalities of federal law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies.