Roseanne Barr's last racist tweet may have been the end of her, for now, but Jeff Sessions is an honorable man. This is what passes for insight, in the Trump era, and it's no joke; it is a given that a man who has devoted his entire career to making the lives of everyday Americans worse in a dozen different nation-harming ways is honorable, according to the rules of political reporters, because We Declare It To Be So and that is it. Look, here is an entire Axios article devoted to bronzing Jeff Sessions and lifting him onto a granite block in the center of some future public park.
Think of the job that you dreamed you could have when you grew up. Think of going through your whole life — and in an extraordinary twist of fate and luck and with a smart move — and, finally, that job will be the capstone to your career. Then, when you start that job, your boss spends the entire time making it hell for you.
The big picture: Jeff Sessions is an honorable person. He takes extraordinary pride in the fact that, during his decades-long career, he's built a reputation as the literal and figurative Boy Scout. He loves that reputation — and doing the right thing.
This is an actual goddamned news article that a functioning professional adult wrote up, to be displayed in a public place, as the garbage fire of the Trump presidency rages through our every waking public moment and we all await the outcome of the constitutional crises, plural, that nearly everybody expects will be coming if even a quarter of the things suspected about the Trump campaign and presidency turn out, after federal investigations are complete, to be true. Jeff Sessions, would-be neanderthal lawman who has devoted himself unfailingly to prolonging and protracting racism in our voting booths and in our courtrooms, in our corporations and our universities and in the halls of government itself, man who finally grabbed that brass ring he had so long been stretching for, the one allowing him to personally roll back decades of American civil rights progress from within the one place in American government uniquely able to pull off such a feat, is having a sad. But he is an honorable man.
The link provided to polish Session's doing-the-right-thing credentials, by the way, and we are not f--king making this up because no satirist could, is an article reporting on Sessions' internal push to get perceived Trump enemy Andrew McCabe fired during the time Trump was publicly denigrating McCabe as being a Comey ally and dreaded Democrat. That is the best a journalist can do to push the notion that Jeff Sessions is an honorable man: A report of him acting as noble toady for an unstable boss dishing out vengeance against those he merely imagines might oppose him.
But Jeff Sessions is an honorable man, or so we are told, and it is making him very, very sad that his unstable boss, who believes he might be insufficiently loyal, soon afterwards turned his invective towards him. Whoever could have expected such a development; whoever could have predicted that no matter how obsequiously one panders to an obviously incompetent and delusional rage-monster, you, too, will someday be the target of the very shit-cannon you tirelessly worked to assemble.
This ridiculous horseshit just keeps going, by the way.
After withdrawing his resignation letter last year, Sessions resolved to push ahead, put his head down and fulfill the policy agenda he dreamed of enacting. But there’s an open question of how much more of this Sessions can take.
It is a damn fucking tragedy, it is, that the honorable Jeff Sessions has to choose between his dream job of curtailing voting rights for American minorities, weakening civil rights for American minorities, reverting Justice Department policies to past versions that specifically targeted American minorities, and having a dementia-addled tinpot dictator shout insults in his direction. Any less honorable bloke, we are told, would have not put up with such shoddy treatment, but Jeff Sessions is very damn attached to his job and the history-thwarting powers that come with it and is bravely holding his position despite the slings and arrows of the man who he willingly and slavishly helped elevate to the office precisely so that he could gain the sort of power he now holds.
Trump has taken Sessions' decision so personally he can’t look at the situation objectively. So many people close to the president have tried to talk him around on Sessions, but nothing gets through.
Heavens above, Donald Trump is an emotional toddler with a head so thick no logic can penetrate it—and one so obsessed with shuttering the investigation into Russian hacking efforts that it has become the all-consuming drive of his presidency. How tragic for Jeff Sessions that he must suffer these instabilities hisownself, in exchange for the ability to curtail American civil rights.
They’ve tried all sorts of arguments, including pointing out that, because Sessions did everything by the book, it'll be the ultimate vindication when Mueller ultimately comes back with nothing. But nothing works. Trump’s mind on Sessions is set and can't be changed.
Heavens above, Donald Trump is unwilling to believe that Donald Trump will be escaping from all of this unscathed and vindicated unless Donald Trump takes extraordinary measures to strip any and every figure in his government who he personally believes is not protecting him from that investigation enough. We can only assume the fucker knows something the rest of us don't.
But Jeff Sessions, longtime enemy of civil rights since the time he was first hatched in the warm hollow space of an Alabama oak tree, is an honorable man. It is a shame he has to suffer the sort of insults that Trump dishes out to literally every other American who he finds insufficiently loyal. It is enough to make a man outright upset, when he comes home from his day job of disemboweling every protection afforded to less prominent Americans, the ones without lifelong political careers or journalists willing to mount them on tall granite pedestals for the rest of us to look up upon. Give the man an extra helping of pudding and make sure his driver knows to take the scenic route home; he's had a terribly stressful day.