{"id":401420,"date":"2019-03-26T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-lessons-from-failed-mueller-inquiry-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:24:05","slug":"three-lessons-from-failed-mueller-inquiry-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-lessons-from-failed-mueller-inquiry-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lessons From \u2018Failed\u2019 Mueller Inquiry \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Jonathan Cook analyzes what progressives can glean from a major squabble between different wings of the same neoliberal establishment.<span id=\"more-34504\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/tag\/jonathan-cook\/\">By <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">JonathanCook<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/\">Jonathan-Cook.net<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jonathan-Cook.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jonathan-Cook-130x130.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28879\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28879\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Jonathan-Cook-130x130.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/span>ere are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russia-gate is never going to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dumptheguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/mar\/24\/mueller-report-donald-trump-barr-congress-russia\">uncover collusion<\/a><\/span>\u00a0between Donald Trump\u2019s camp and the Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>No. 1: Painting the Pig\u2019s face<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">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><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Russia-gate 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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">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><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">For them, it may look like Russia-gate 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 diverted the left\u2019s political energies towards the convenient bogeymen targets of Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34514\" style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28512617446_e0b753d6bb_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28512617446_e0b753d6bb_o.jpg\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34514\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34514\" alt=\"Putin helping Trump win the race for president. (DonkeyHotey via Flickr)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34514\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34514\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/28512617446_e0b753d6bb_o.jpg\" alt=\"Putin helping Trump win the race for president. (DonkeyHotey via Flickr)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-34514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Caricature of Putin helping Trump win election. <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0(DonkeyHotey via Flickr)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">What Mueller found \u2013 all he was ever going to find \u2013 was marginal corruption in the Trump camp. And that was inevitable because Washington is mired in corruption. In fact, what Mueller revealed was the most exceptional forms of corruption among Trump\u2019s team while obscuring the run-of-the-mill stuff that would have served as a reminder of the endemic corruption infecting the Democratic leadership too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">An anti-corruption investigation would have run much deeper and&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/03\/26\/three-lessons-from-failed-mueller-inquiry\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Cook analyzes what progressives can glean from a major squabble between different wings of the same neoliberal establishment. By JonathanCookJonathan-Cook.net Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russia-gate is never going to\u00a0uncover collusion\u00a0between Donald Trump\u2019s camp and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401420","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\/401420","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\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}