Trump’s
Treasonous Traitor Summit
or, How Liberals Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism
C.J. HOPKINS • JULY 18, 2018
Photo by Kremlin.ru | CC BY 2.0
So it appears America and democracy
have miraculously survived the dreaded Trump-Putin summit … or Trump’s meeting
with his Russian handler, as the neoliberal ruling classes and their mouthpieces
in the corporate media would dearly like us all to believe. NATO has not been
summarily dissolved. Poland has not been invaded by Russia. The offices
of The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and
MSNBC have not been stormed by squads of jackbooted Trumpian Gestapo. The
Destabilization of the Middle East, the Privatization of Virtually Everything,
the Conversion of the Planet into One Big Shopping Mall, and other global
capitalist projects are all going forward uninterrupted. Apart from Trump making
a narcissistic, word-salad-babbling jackass of himself, which he does on a more
or less daily basis, nothing particularly apocalyptic happened.
And so, once again, Western liberals,
and others obsessed with Donald Trump, having been teased into a painfully
tumescent paroxysm of anticipation of some unimaginably horrible event that
would finally lead to Trump’s impeachment (or his removal from office by other
means) were left standing around with their hysteria in their hands. It has
become a sadistic ritual at this point … like a twisted, pseudo-Tantric
exercise where the media get liberals all lathered up over whatever fresh
horror Trump has just perpetrated (or some non-story story they have invented
out of whole cloth), build the tension for several days, until liberals are
moaning and begging for impeachment, or a full-blown CIA-sponsored coup, then
pull out abruptly and leave the poor bastards writhing in agony until the next
time … which is pretty much exactly what just happened.
In the days and weeks leading up to
the summit, the global capitalist ruling class Resistance deployed every weapon
in its mighty arsenal to whip the Western masses up into a frenzy of
anti-Putin-Nazi fervor. While continuing to flog the wildly popular baby concentration camp story (because the Hitler stimulus never fails to
elicit a Pavlovian response from Americans, regardless of how often or how
blatantly you use it), the corporate media began hammering hard on the “Trump
is a Russian Agent” hysteria. (Normally, the corporate media alternates between
the Hitler hysteria and the Russia hysteria so as not to completely
short-circuit the already scrambled brains of Western liberals, but given the imminent threat of a peace deal, they needed to go the whole hog this time and paint
this summit as a secret, internationally televised assignation between Hitler
and … well, Hitler).
