Reading U.S. Deputy Attorney General under George H. W. Bush Donald Ayers' most recent article about why William Barr must resign (fat chance of that happening) I kept wondering at not only how so many elite connected lawyers, liberal as well as conservative had to have played a huge game of let's pretend to ignore that Barr was and has long been an overt fascist - as long as the strong man was a Republican. Ayer references and links to an op-ed supporting Barr as an "excellent choice" from the TV liberal lawyer Harry Litman in support of Barr, I believe at the time I read Litman's article along with other anodyne piles of horseshit from other such "liberals" over the sterling character the "institutionalist" credentials of Barr and, previously, of the scumbag little hack Rod Rosenstein and may have called him out as a willingly unseeing dupe. I have speculated what's in it for these self-duped dupes as I did the "liberals" in the legal and judicial profession who reassured us that Samuel Alito was not going to be a dangerous oligarachic and Republican-fascist hack on the Supreme Court.
Well, the proof is in the pudding and that proof shows that such connected lawyers are a remarkably unreliable bunch until they can't possibly pretend that their buddies are men of honor. I have noted several times that the now obviously absurdly lionized Robert Mueller was one such friend of Barr whose nonfeasance should remove his halo, which I have no doubt he'll retain. Though it's one made of plastic, not gold.
The bigger question to wonder at is what's in it for the person who all right-wing fascists hold in highest regard, not their strong-man, themselves. I am certain that William Barr is not a true-Trump believer, Trump is nothing but a vehicle for him to see his fascist theory of law and the American presidency fulfilled in. That it took the most criminal and traitorous of Presidents to present him with that opportunity is a pretty good sign that such an effort is, in itself, an overt criminal enterprise as I would hold the entire "unitary executive" and "Federalist Society" program has been. His previous activities were in regard to the not-infamous enough cover-up pardons issued by George H. W. Bush to those who, if forced to testify in their own defense are believed to have been in a position to implicate him in criminal activities while Vice President and President. That alone makes someone like Litman supporting him as Trumps AG definitively self-impeaching as to their judgement of such matters.
But what do these fascist lawyers, law professors and judgeds and "justices" expect to get out of the destruction of American democracy?
I suspect there are a couple of psychological gratifications they get from it.
First is the establishment of a hierarchical order of unequal evaluation of human beings, their kind of people being elevated to the superior status. That, in every way, is the prime directive of the enemies of equality and democracy from the time of Greek antiquity to today. It is a habit of thought and a gratifying habit that people of low morals constantly indulge in, racism, ethinic hatred, misogyny are all motivated by the gratifying belief that the - for the most part - affluent or aspiring to be affluent white male holds as among his greatest possessions, the feeling that he is superior to others and that he is so entitled to the privileges and benefits of his superiority. I have seldom known a preppy-Ivy equivalent product who doesn't, to some extent, harbor such a notion of their superiority to the mass of humanity.
Second, Barr is either too lazy or too cowardly to stand for elective office, himself, something which he shares with so many others of the legal bureaucracy who are the enemies of egalitarian democracy. Perhaps he knows that he has little chance to gull enough voters in a place he would like to live into voting him into office and, no doubt, he realizes his elitist oligarachic fascism would work against him in gaining or retaining elective office. Perhaps his view of himself as being above the vulgarity of depending on something as debased as the hoi polloi who vote plays a huge role in that. I don't doubt it is something he shares with many other members of the same lawyerly rank of insiders. Which would account for the "liberals" among them being willing supporters of others of their rank.
Lacking public office for himself, a William Barr will attach himself to someone who will stand for election and gain office in order for him to further himself and his fascism. He doesn't mind not being the one at the top as long as he gets to maximize his own power in service of the strong-man he attaches himself to. He also gets to attack and destroy the things that stand between democracy and his vision of an oligarchic-fascist government which can bypass elections by an informed population dedicated to egalitarian democracy.
That the thing a Barr attaches himself to is like a translation of Roman imperial decadence only even stupider than the old Roman aristocrats isn't something that bothers him much. Such oligarchic fascists are always as vulgarly decadent and deeply cynical as can be in their center, anything less depraved being merely for show and to allow them to pretend they're better than the vulgarians they serve. They are florid, continual and shamelessly hypocritical liars. I'd love to go into the allegedly Catholic Notre Dame University giving him a platform for floridly and hypocritically and habitually lying from late last year but time doesn't permit it.
Apart from that the thing I suspect is that William Barr and, very possibly, his father Donald Barr, the elite prep-school head who gave the clearly unqualified Jeffry Epstein a job teaching at an elite prep school, has secrets he wants to keep under raps. Either for himself or for his late father. Perhaps he gets blackmailed, though I think that's probably more understood than threatened. I strongly suspect among other things he wants to keep from ever surfacing are his activities surrounding Epstein's last years and days. But that's something that awaits him and the fascist order he serves being deposed and an honest regime of legal investigation taking its place.
I think that is one thing above all that such people fear from an Elizabeth Warren who, I suspect, is less likely to appoint hacks like Harry Litman and Robert Mueller to head investigations than Barack Obama or Bill Clinton would have been. I think if she became president she is likely to reach outside of the bubble that such people exist in to really put law on the side of egalitarian democracy and the rule of law.
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