Waiting For Mueller, Alone

A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, when Manafort was indicted, my thought was that the Mueller investigation was wrapping up, and that soon we would know something, maybe even the truth. I repeated the process a few more times, but finally learned. I betook myself to being patient, and reminded myself that justice does not adhere in my voraciously, fervently anticipating the fall of the tower of Trump via exposure of treason, and incarceration. In all truth. all these meetings 'twixt Trumper folk and Russians had to be for a reason, am I correct? I mean, something must have been going on, and to investigate it, in light of the fact that all seventeen intelligence gathering services assured us that Russian election tampering in twenty sixteen was a reality, was justified, reasonable, and had nothing to do with hunting witches, contrary to the vociferous protestations of White House occupants and spokes personnel. And, then too, what's wrong with rooting out witches? Sometimes, as in Mueller's case, it works. By definition, any investigation which exposes crime and causes its culprits to be prosecuted and sentenced is a successful enterprise, and not a witch hunt, assuming the term "witch hunt" as a futile endeavor, intended only to make trouble. Mueller has been honorable, dutiful, and professional, so, let's hear what he has to say. I've been saying that I hope Mueller did not find the president to be a traitor, although, as a known gangster and reprobate the president is known to be capable of anything, and, as mentioned above, there certainly is an abundance of evidence and smoking guns, contrary to what Trump supporters dishonestly imagine. More fascinating are the various attitudes and reactions of the masses for and against Trump. Indeed, his despisers are chomping, waiting for and fully expecting a report horribly damaging to his orangeness. Anything else will be a construed as a failure of the system, and of the sacred spirit of accountability. The very thought of merely awaiting the report, accepting whatever it says, then moving on factors not into any equation known to anti-Trumpism. The trump supporters are far more fascinating, their attitudes amazing, psychotic, delusional, and a few other things. Once the witch hunt meme gained momentum, it just wouldn't relent. We live in a society in which everyone seems to have read 'Macbeth", a nation of Shakespeare-ian scholars. Double, double, toil and trouble, and all that malarkey. The president understands the big lie oft repeated idea, that it works, and his one hundred and eleven references to witch hunts took hold. The best part has been the various permutations of the grand conspiracy theory, at which the far right and the paranormal community are so terribly accomplished. Among these wackos, every and all unsatisfactory result is the product of some damned conspiracy, which only the purveyor of the news itself knows anything about. Everybody has his or her own brand. Fake (liberal) news media, the professorial community, Chinese hackers; you name it, they invent a conspiracy to cover it. Among these pro Trump loonies, who, yes, are loonies merely by definition of being Trump supporters, the slightest indication in the Mueller report that the Don of the gang is anything other than a pristine defender of the faith and the American way will evince wrath the likes of which have not been seen since the last time a conservative Christian read the Bible straight through, which, in a word, has been forever. I hope Trump is clean; I'd rather impeach him for failing to fight climate change. The mere fact that I am content to await the report, to accept it, and to move on puts me at odds with both sides, and, as the old song says, stuck in the middle with you.