The Delusions of the Ruling Class
It was Trump Derangement Syndrome, not Trump, that posed the greatest threat to the country.
by George Neumayr
September 16, 2021, 12:50 AM
The ruling class treated the Trump presidency as a singular crisis in the history of the country. From the constant shrieking of the media, one might have thought that America had fallen into the hands of a foreign occupier. Because the ruling class viewed Trump as illegitimate from the start, it cast almost all of his executive actions, no matter how prosaic, as deeply scandalous and troubling. The media ginned up endless controversies about Trump, but they never amounted to much. Most of them revolved around Trump’s infractions of taste or his deviations from this or that unimportant Beltway “norm.”
America has gone from fake crises under Trump to real ones under Biden — from a period of peace to a presidency of body bags, botched evacuations, and failed drone strikes. Yet the ruling class’s appetite for hysterical books about the Trump presidency hasn’t waned. Now Washington is excited about Bob Woodward’s take on Trump’s final days. Never mind that the biggest scandal his book has unearthed comes not from Trump but from General Mark Milley’s hyperventilating about him.
It appears that Milley, based upon imaginary fears about Trump’s mental state after January 6, committed an act of treason. According to Woodward’s book, Milley assured the Chinese that he would protect them against any military action ordered by Trump in the final days of his presidency. “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time,” Milley told a Chinese general. “It’s not going to be a surprise.”
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