Aw, sh#t… here we go.
by Tom Sullivan
I was just about to comment on a post at Raw Story when another headline there grabbed my attention. And what an appropriate lead-in:
If you want to avoid the new Dark Ages: Get out and vote
But the first headline at Raw Story was about Donald Trump advisor Gen. Michael Flynn on Meet the Press yesterday taking issue with Mark Cuban being invited to tonight’s presidential debate:
In response [to] the news that Cuban will attend the first presidential debate of the 2016 general election, Trump tweeted over the weekend that he may invite Gennifer Flowers, who allegedly had an affair with Hillary Clinton’s husband decades ago.
On Sunday, Flynn deflected questions from NBC’s Chuck Todd about the invitation to Flowers.
“I would just go with what you have seen,” Flynn said. “And we’ll wait to see what happens tomorrow night.”
“Was it appropriate to invite Mark Cuban?” the Trump adviser continued. “I mean, he’s not a legitimate person. Why is he invited?”
First they came for Mark Cuban, etc.
Donald Trump’s political career grew out of his deciding Barack Obama was “not a legitimate person.” That mindset seems to have filtered down to his mouthpieces. Imagine a Trump administration populated with Trumps, Trumpettes, and Michael Flynns empowered to decide on a whim which Americans are illegitimate.
It wasn’t that long ago conservatives joked about bringing back the Dark Ages:
Conservatives have invited 3,000 right-leaning luminaries to a New Year’s retreat in Florida intended to rival the annual Renaissance Weekend in Hilton Head, S.C., attended by friends of President Clinton. The conservatives, those wags, are calling theirs the Dark Ages Weekend.
The letter of invitation, topped by a black dragon logo, seeks to rally conservatives at the posh Doral Golf Resort in Miami to sharpen their blades for the fight to slay that common enemy of all Americans — the “big, fat and unaccountable” federal government.
Other common enemies would come later, one supposes. Except back then, the conservative elite felt they got to decide who was or was not illegitimate. Now, with Bravehair off script and leading commoners in revolt, the conservative elite are not so glib. They are Illegitimati. And Mark Cuban. And you’re next.
Michael Flynn may unwittingly have given the game away. As Tom Arnold said in True Lies,
“Aw, sh#t… here we go.”