By Lawrence Wilkerson

October 25, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - With regard to President Trump’s ill-thought-out plan to host the upcoming G7 meeting at one of his own properties in Doral, FL, Republican Tom Cole exclaimed on Monday: “I think there was a lot of concern. I’m not sure people questioned the legality of it, but it clearly was an unforced political error.” And according to The New York Times, saintly fair and balanced “Fox News personalities expressed disapproval” too.

So, we are into almost three years of dozens upon dozens of “unforced political errors,” some of them quite clearly illegal or unconstitutional, and Congressman Cole, bless his little Oklahoma heart, is just now exclaiming about this particular one. You just can’t beat this GOP-Mafia party lash-up. And that lash-up’s mouthpiece, the personalities at Fox News, collectively or even individually expressing some dismay tops the journalistic cake.

And if acting White House chief of staff Nick Mulvaney actually believes that Trump was “honestly surprised at the level of pushback” to his proposed G7 locale, as the Times reported, then the nation and the President need a new acting chief of staff.

This is now well beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka, beyond even Marvel Comic Books. The degree to which U.S. governance has been savaged is simply breathtaking. Forget “the Deep State,” the oligarchs, the plutocrats, the messianic humanitarians, the “corporations that are now people,” or the usual abuse of presidential power resulting in wars or potential wars from one end of the globe to the other. We have a situation today well beyond anything any one of them could generate—because at the end of the day their power is motivated by self-interest and such interest, no matter how selfish and greedy, normally does not seek to destroy the very things it’s robbing, abusing, or otherwise savaging.

Trump and his team, from Mulvaney to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, are utterly unique: stark-raving incompetents in harness for America. From the Doral proposal to the Christian State Department, Christian Veterans Affairs Department, and Christian DOD; from kiss-and-tell diplomacy with bloody-minded dictators to absurd protestations attributing their own lies and crimes to others with a diligence-to-detail unparalleled—this gang is for the record books. And the outcome they are generating just might be as well; that is, for the closing of the record books. Because sooner rather than later, the lights are going out on this Reality TV show. Such darkness that follows might enshroud America for years to come.