{"id":401302,"date":"2019-03-25T20:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T19:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-lessons-for-the-left-from-the-mueller-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T20:33:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T19:33:28","slug":"three-lessons-for-the-left-from-the-mueller-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-lessons-for-the-left-from-the-mueller-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_110311\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110311\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110311\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/President_George_W._Bush_is_presented_with_an_honorary_FBI_Special_Agent_credential_by_FBI_Director_Robert_Mueller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/President_George_W._Bush_is_presented_with_an_honorary_FBI_Special_Agent_credential_by_FBI_Director_Robert_Mueller.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/03\/President_George_W._Bush_is_presented_with_an_honorary_FBI_Special_Agent_credential_by_FBI_Director_Robert_Mueller-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-110311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dumptheguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/mar\/24\/mueller-report-donald-trump-barr-congress-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">uncover collusion<\/a>\u00a0between Donald Trump\u2019s camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"\"><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">Painting the pig\u2019s face<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">1. The left never had a dog in this race. This was always an in-house squabble between different wings of the establishment. Late-stage capitalism is in terminal crisis, and the biggest problem facing our corporate elites is how to emerge from this crisis with their power intact. One wing wants to make sure the pig\u2019s face remains painted, the other is happy simply getting its snout deeper into the trough while the food lasts.<\/span><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">Russiagate was never about substance, it was about who gets to image-manage the decline of a turbo-charged, self-harming neoliberal capitalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">The leaders of the Democratic party are less terrified of Trump and what he represents than they are of us and what we might do if we understood how they have rigged the political and economic system to their permanent advantage.<\/span><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\" lang=\"EN-US\">It may look like Russiagate was a failure, but it was actually a success. It deflected the left\u2019s attention from endemic corruption within the leadership of the Democratic party, which supposedly represents the left. It rechannelled the left\u2019s political energies instead towards the convenient bogeymen targets of Trump and Russian president&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/03\/25\/three-lessons-for-the-left-from-the-mueller-inquiry\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to\u00a0uncover collusion\u00a0between Donald Trump\u2019s camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election. Painting the pig\u2019s face 1. The left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}