The Mueller Report: Reality Check and Morality Check

From the Refuse Fascism Editorial Group

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The Mueller investigation, which MSNBC breathlessly promised us night after night was coming to save us, which the Democratic Party leadership told us to wait for… is done. We do not yet know the details of the report. But we know that there will be no top-level indictments.

The Democrats are now changing the terms to demand the release of the report. Of course it should be made public. But it’s time for the people to reset the terms in the interest of humanity and the planet. Time for a reality check and a morality check!

1) The problem was never Russia.

Trump’s alleged ties to Russia are not and never were the reason WHY the Trump/Pence fascist regime has to go. For two years, millions of people who should have been in the streets demanding the removal of the fascist Trump/Pence regime, have been waiting for and relying on the Mueller Report to deliver a smoking gun that would bring a “compelling” reason to force Trump out of office. Instead of confronting this homegrown American fascism – wrapped in the flag and carrying Mike Pence’s bible – too many people have taken false comfort in the idea that a criminal conspiracy between Trump and Russia put Trump in the White House, not a fascist movement that has embedded itself in American society.

2) The solution was never Mueller.

The narrative and the anticipation of the Mueller report has diverted, bamboozled and stupefied people into becoming passive spectators when what is needed is massive, sustained non-violent resistance to demand the whole regime be ousted. The scope of the Mueller investigation was always narrowly defined within the confines of the very system that gave us Trump and Pence. Waiting for Mueller served to channel millions who should have been in the streets demanding an end to the regime into putting up with an intensifying nightmare.

Now, people who are disappointed with the anti-climax of the Mueller report are already being urged to wait for the next bombshell to come out through investigations from the Southern District of New York and other U.S. Attorney’s offices. And many sections of the #resistance are speculating, with absolutely no evidence, that there must be something damning in the Mueller report since Trump hasn’t tweeted about it. These are absurd terms and an absurd basis for resistance. Meanwhile, all this waiting has allowed this regime to terrorize more people, take away more rights, tear up more rules and norms, threaten more violence, issue more executive orders, throw more gasoline on the climate crisis, and issue more war cries and deadlier attacks on civilians, with a finger on the nuclear button.