The Danger Of Thinking You Are Above The Fray

Justin Amash is parroting Judge Andrew Napolitano's arguments about whether or not Trump obstructed justice. But in doing so, they have also allowed themselves to engage in a false detachment. They want to pretend that what they believe in and want can exist outside of the current left/right structure.

But the reality it that the right is mostly defined by the left. There's less conformity on the right, more diversity of opinion. We are not conceptualizing ourselves, after all, as a collective, whereas the left does, and therefore they sort of police themselves with a bit more zeal and self-righteousness.

So it is a mistake, at least until the left is truly defeated, and some sort of nobility exists, that you can step out of the left/right line. The left/right line will exist as long as the bureaucratic model of government exists. It can only die when a class of owners once again basically own the machinery of government, and can hold bureaucrats accountable.

The appropriate way to point out the tiny little kernel of truth that these two are throwing out, is via a critique of our justice system. Look, at what they do. They threw Martha Stewart in jail, after all. They failed to make a case on insider trading, but busted her for supposedly lying to the F.B.I.

So you can throw this principle out there with great force- that obviously various elements of the F.B.I. were attempting to construct a similar case against Trump.

What you don't do is say this should be countenanced. You should be saying we should make this kind of shit impossible. We should stop the swamp from being able to pull this kind of sham.

But of course, Amash and the judge are fucking up. They are showing the glaring similarity between Austrian economics based libertarians and the larger right- the conservative tendency to self-sabotage is right here at the gate.

Unless these two took this gig on as a way to help Trump- which is possible but unlikely, their behavior is unfathomably stupid. Amash will likely lose his seat. He will certainly get no help from Democrats. No libertarian goals will be upheld here, and the rest of the right will be trained to think these types of thinkers are dangerous and cannot be trusted.