I Hope This Is The Last Time I'll Ever Feel Moved To Write About James Comey

Michael Schmidt's revelation that James Comey's wife tried to talk him out of his move that likely put Donald Trump into the presidency, his announcement 10 days before the 2016 election about Hillary Clinton e-mails that he'd never read and that hadn't been gone through by the FBI - when they did they gave a far less impactful announcement that they found nothing in them - reminds me of how much I loathe that sanctimonious and hypocritical asshole and nothing more than that.  

 I don't doubt for a second that there were obvious reasons he did that to Hillary Clinton, first that she was a Democratic candidate who it looked would win the election,  FIRST RULE OF LIFE, NEVER TRUST A REPUBLICAN WHO WAS A REPUBLICAN AFTER BUSH II, second and no less of a reason for someone like Comey, she would be the first Woman to be president.  

For someone like Comey for whom principles, scruples, even what might almost attain the status of morality is always largely a matter of form over substance, temporary pose instead of lasting import.   He is a good example of a kind of conventionalized religiosity of the kind that is often found among so many among the servants of affluence - I'd go into his record at the scumbag investment firm Bridgewater and how that didn't trouble his sensitive sense of morality but I'm hoping he fades into total obscurity after the Trump crimes have been fully investigated in exactly the way that Comey never would have done if he had not been fired by Trump.  Not unless he figured he'd get caught enabling Trump in the end.  I don't think there's really that much difference between him and a Rod Rosenstein.  

Comey's place in history should be as the man who sanctimoniously and dishonestly delivered the country and the world to at least four years of Trumpian fascism and the devastating damage that has come with that.   He did that to keep the country from being governed by the women who actually won the election on behalf of his Republican Party.  He's the Sandra Day O'Connor of the Trump era even as that asshole was of the Bush II-Cheny era.  I hope she's cognizant enough to understand that that's how history will see her.  I hope we make it obvious to him that that's how history will remember him, though he'll like to imagine himself as a martyr of principle and scrupulosity and even imagine himself as a model of moral propriety when he's nothing of the sort.  No, I don't even care if he feels the shame and humiliation, understands that everything Trump and his goons did in office was a result of his unprecedented, even unallowed act of law enforcement interference with an election ten days later.  I hope it's how we see it and act to prevent a future Comey ever holding the office.  No more Republicans appointed to those offices by a Democratic president, that should be the rule from now on.