Let’s imagine that an evil despotic foreign leader has installed an agent as the President of their most hated adversary country. What would that leader have his agent do?
- Have that agent relax sanctions on the leader’s country. ✔ CHECK
- Have that agent antagonize the country’s allies. ✔ CHECK
- Have that agent sow discord in the country with hateful divisive rhetoric. ✔ CHECK
- Have that agent attack the countries institutions, particularly the Justice Department, and install cronies in the leadership of these institutions. ✔ CHECK
- Have that agent pull the country out of multinational trade and security alliances. ✔ CHECK
- Have that agent implement crazy economic trade sanctions to weaken its economy. ✔ CHECK
- Have that agent heap praise on the foreign leader. ✔ CHECK
- Have that agent go to extraordinary lengths to conceal communications with the foreign leader. ✔ CHECK
- Have that agent regurgitate obscure dishonest talking points to serve the foreign leader’s propaganda purposes.✔ CHECK
- HAVE THAT AGENT SHUT DOWN THE COUNTRY’S ENTIRE GOVERNMENT ON THE BASIS OF SOME STUPID CONTRIVED RATIONAL AND NOT REOPEN IT DESPITE ENORMOUS POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL DAMAGE TO THE COUNTRY. ✔ CHECK
Wake up country, you’ve been punked! The media has just come around to discussing the very real “possibility” that Donald J. Trump is a witting or unwitting agent of Vladimir Putin. It is time to fully appreciate that his actions, all of his actions, are in service to his master. It is way past time to recognize that the shutdown, Trump’s Shutdown, that is crippling this country, is actually Putin’s Shutdown. Putin’s agent Donald J. Trump is doing more damage every day than an invading horde, and it will only get worse until he is stopped.