Political Post: Matt Taibbi via UntitledGate - "A Permanent Coup"

Matt Taibbi via UntitledGate says, "Americans might soon wish they just waited to vote their way out of the Trump era" in this essay, We're In a Permanent Coup. It begins:

I’ve lived through a few coups. They’re insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score.

The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-speed head-counting exercise. Who’s got the power plant, the airport, the police in the capital? How many department chiefs are answering their phones? Who’s writing tonight’s newscast?

Aside from the knee jerk Rolling Stone political memes, this is one of the more unsettling essays you'll read this week.  Taibbi is one of the few leftist / progressive journalists who has principles.  He called out the Russiagate nonsense early, and, like Glenn Greenwald, has paid the price.  I make it a point to read his work and watch his interviews.

This is the key passage, something only a few journalists would dare type:

"My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president. 

The Trump presidency is the first to reveal a full-blown schism between the intelligence community and the White House. Senior figures in the CIA, NSA, FBI and other agencies made an open break from their would-be boss before Trump’s inauguration, commencing a public war of leaks that has not stopped."

Here's the whole thing: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/were-in-a-permanent-coup