The face of fear on the Democrats in Washington

John Kass:

The public faking of sincerity is an underappreciated, yet dark and unctuous art, practiced with great skill by Roman senators, French courtiers (just before the advent of the guillotine) and, yes, Washington politicians.

Fear is a different creature. There is no need to fake it. It shows itself on the faces of intriguers in Washington as it would have shown itself on the faces of macaques in a laboratory or on some 15th century jester in a painting. We are all primates.

The lips curl back, there is a witless acceptance of threat and the showing of teeth, of gums.

But in Washington, they don’t call it fear. They pretend, rather, that it is the anger of the righteous. Yet it is fear just the same, that treacly Washington bureaucratic and political fear.

It belongs to the intriguer, and is the fear of finally being found out, discovered, of losing one’s place in the hive, at the salon, a fear not only of the loss of reputation, but of the loss of income and status and power. The fear of the loss of face, the fear of ridicule.

It is the same fear that was felt in Rome and later in pre-revolutionary France, and now they feel it in Washington.

And the man who is causing it all is Attorney General William Barr.

Because when Barr explained, almost casually and quite publicly just a few weeks ago, that he was looking into the origins of the inquisition of President Donald Trump and that discredited Russian collusion business, and into the “spying” on the Trump campaign, something happened.

The Washington establishment’s fear rolled over him in waves.

He’s the establishment’s target now. And as a member of the Washington establishment himself, as the once and current attorney general, he knows the game. They must destroy his reputation to save theirs.

The Democrats are fearful, as are some current and former American spymasters, and former FBI chief James Comey, and their handmaidens in journalism who took their leaks and promulgated the story that Trump was a willing and traitorous servant of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

They hoped so desperately that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report would vindicate them, that Mueller would find conspiracy to collude with an adversary, that he would bring a case of obstruction of justice against the president.

But Mueller did not vindicate them.
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It is time that those behind the treasonous coup attempt against President Trump be brought to justice.  If that becomes a political problem for Democrats it is their own fault for buying into the hoax and by attacking Barr they are compounding the problem for themselves.  It is good to see that the Democrats in Washington and some of their cohorts in the media are not fooling everyone.  But one reason so many in the media are going along with the attacks on Barr is that they were co-conspirators in the coup attempt.