Commentary
Ten weeks from the midterm elections, U.S. politics seem to have solidified into a titanic struggle between the unstoppable force of Donald Trump and the fortified citadel of the combined political, financial, high-tech, intellectual, and entertainment establishments who oppose him.
Trump wishes, in his phrase, to ”drain the swamp”— to dispose of practically the entire senior level of the federal government for rank incompetence and corruption. At least 40 percent of American voters believe in him passionately, and despite the endless disparagements of Trump’s scores of millions of followers as “deplorables” and overly dependent on “guns and religion” (Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama), most of them are civilized people whose knuckles never touch the ground and whom disgraced FBI Trump-Russia collusionist Peter Strzok did not “smell at Walmart.”…