What if Mueller proves his case and nobody cares?

Jeanette

Thu, Nov 02 2017, 8:04 pm

This article on Vox.com is chilling:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and.....risis

His basic point is that Mueller already has overwhelming evidence of Trump/Russia collusion in the 2016 election, but for at least 30% of Americans, these revelations simply won't matter. And if they just decide to ignore it and still hold the balance of power in the GOP, what happens next? Do we all just shrug our shoulders and move on?

Quote:

But we are disturbingly close to the following scenario:

Say Mueller reveals hard proof that the Trump campaign knowingly colluded with Russia, strategically using leaked emails to hurt Clinton’s campaign. Say the president — backed by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Fox News, Breitbart, most of the US Cabinet, half the panelists on CNN, most of the radio talk show hosts in the country, and an enormous network of Russian-paid hackers and volunteer shitposters working through social media — rejects the evidence.

They might say Mueller is compromised. It’s a Hillary/”deep state” plot. There’s nothing wrong with colluding with Russia in this particular way. Dems did it first. All of the above. Whatever.

Say the entire right-wing media machine kicks to life and dismisses the whole thing as a scam — and conservatives believe them. The conservative base remains committed to Trump, politicians remain scared to cross the base, and US politics remains stuck in partisan paralysis, unable to act on what Mueller discovers.

In short, what if Mueller proves the case and it’s not enough?

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