Comey’s ComplexesHis Trump hatred has deep roots.American Spectator, Apr 20, 2018, George Neumayr
Jim Comey’s entire shtick now consists of violating the proprieties expected of a former FBI director. But even as he turns up on late-night gag shows to profit off betrayed confidences, he presents himself as the custodian of America’s “norms.†In between complaining about how his job “sucked†at times and how he felt “pissed†off, he likes to play the holier-than-thou scold. His constant invoking of “values†is an attempt to prettify his plunge into low politics and unprincipled profiteering.
Much of his “moral†case against Trump turns not on Trump’s moral behavior or any supposed rejection of fundamental American values by Trump but on a politics Comey finds distasteful. So in the end Comey is just pandering to liberalism’s claimed monopoly on “decency†and its treatment of any deviation from that willful claim as the ultimate character defect. That is why Trump’s comparing of left-wing thugs to white supremacists stands at the top of Comey’s bill of indictment.
Comey has never outgrown the adolescent politics that led him to do his senior college thesis at William and Mary on the troubling “nationalism†of Jerry Falwell, contrasted with what he saw as the measured wisdom of Reinhold Niebuhr. Anybody who bothers to slog through that thesis will understand how Donald “Make America Great Again†Trump inflamed Comey’s various complexes.
Long before he saw Trump’s nationalism as vulgar, Comey found Falwell’s Reaganite patriotism distasteful. In the paper, Comey cites against Falwell Niebuhr’s warnings about the “idolatry†of nationalism. Comey praises Niebuhr for his skeptical view of nationalism and the danger of “pride†to which it can lead. It is not hard to read into Niebuhr’s quotes Comey’s dim view of Trump’s nationalism.
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