The Establishment™ Bar

Well. It’s been two weeks since the Disaster, and the blame is being thrown hard and fast. Much of the blame centers around “wokeness”. Identity politics were at fault for the trouncing that Vice President Kamala Harris suffered at Donald Trump’s hands. Except, of course, there was no trouncing. As of this writing, Trump’s share of the vote, which stood at 52% on the night of the election, is now under 50%, and shrinking. If wokeness was the great bugbear, one would expect his margin to have remained steady; it hasn’t. But another great bogeyman is that milquetoast, norms-obeying cipher, Attorney General Merrick Garland. If only Garland had had Trump arrested as soon as he assumed the position. If only Garland hadn’t dithered on the investigation. If only Garland had simply acted outside of the law and fought fire with fire. And so on and so forth. The general consensus is: Trump should have been in prison as soon as an attorney general had been put in place, and that he wasn’t is all