WaPo Gets One Right

...partly right anyway.

Publishers' Editorial:

Tempers boiled over on Capitol Hill Thursday as Peter Strzok, the FBI official at the center of President Trump’s attempts to discredit special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, testified before a joint meeting of two House oversight committees. With all its yelling and interruptions, the hearing was a fitting coda to the hyperpartisan farce of an investigation that House Republicans have conducted into the FBI and Mr. Mueller’s Russia probe.

Republicans spent hours parsing text messages and waving documents in the air. But all of it, just like most of the broader House investigation, was a distraction from this central point about the conspiracy narratives the president and his defenders have been cooking up about the FBI: If the agency had been trying to harm Mr. Trump’s campaign, agents could have released damaging information on pro-Trump Russian interference before Election Day — and they did not.
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Mr. Strzok is not the perfect messenger, but he was right about this message: “Russian interference in our elections constitutes a grave attack on our democracy,” he said. “Most disturbingly, it has been wildly successful — sowing discord in our nation and shaking faith in our institutions. I have the utmost respect for Congress’s oversight role, but I truly believe that today’s hearing is just another victory notch in [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s belt and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear America apart.”


Republican rhetorical attacks are typically self-contradictory:

"Obama's a commie stooge bent on destroying capitalism, which is why the stock market is up 18,000 points since he took office."

"Obamacare is a total waste of tax money, and a brilliant plot to take over the entire healthcare system and kill the insurance companies, which is why those companies are posting record profits since the passage of ACA, while Medicare and Medicaid have shown significant savings."

You get the picture.

So here we are with the bullshit about how the mighty forces of darkness (eg: The Deep State) plotted against our Noble Donald, and now are planning a coup.

It's the same shit over and over and over: 

"The enemy is invincible - and we're beating them at every turn."