Elites favor democracy only as long as it suborns their abuse of power.
Any deviation they consider invalid or stupid. Brexit + the imminent
election of Trump signify an electorate re-asserting control over
democracy at the expense of a power elite abusing the power of office
for personal advancement + profit.
Trump never positions himself as a
paragon of virtue. His appeal is his express willingness to hold the
beltway cabal to account for all the collusion + corruption that
the Wikileaks and Clinton scandals are revealing. The Clinton
Foundation has clearly only ever been a vehicle for graft. If there is
no malfeasance, why the illegal server, the deletion of email records
and the clumsy intervention of the Obama + Lynch DOJ to obstruct the FBI
investigations? Lastly, if the abuse of power is not indictment
enough, people still want to find ways to excuse the cabal rather than
amend their view or accept that a cleansing of the system is paramount.
Not unsurprisingly, I find so many who are virulently anti-Trump are
the same people who thought Trudeau as PM was a good idea, Wynne as
Premier was necessary and that climate is actually a pressing political
issue. IYI.
