James Howard Kunstler, a former Democrat, and now very much a systems critic, made the observation that the US elites, figures such as John Brennan, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Wray, Anthony Fauci, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Barack Obama, are fearful that Trump may actually win the election, and come after them. Many more names can be added. And Kunstler thinks that it would be a grand idea if Trump did, not for the sake of personal revenge, although that could be a motivating factor, but for the justice of it all. The point not made is that the stakes are as high as possible, raised even more by Trump threatening to release the Epstein client list. As president he should have got a copy of this for his archives, and he could have released it before this. Or, he could have used it for security against "the mob." Then double-crossed them, and released it anyway!

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/the-three-layers-of-culpability

"The migrant crisis has been the first issue to truly evocatively make obvious that something extremely dark and sinister is happening to the country." — Simplicius on Substack

The Great Fright among the elite of the party ruling our country steals across the land chillingly now from sea to shining sea — as if all those ghouls, werewolves, zombies, and tormented wraiths assembled in the front yard Halloween displays send up one mighty wail of despair: Donald Trump will seek revenge against his enemies if you elect him! they scream into the pale moonlight.

Well, he ought to, of course, and remember: they are your enemies, too — the FBI thugs battering down your doors at five in the morning, the malicious US attorneys manufacturing phony felonies, the Soros-owned DAs and party-owned judges, and the thousands of spooks from agencies both known and unheard-of surveilling your every move, every purchase, every journey, every thought. Consider that it is not whether Mr. Trump might seek revenge but whether justice, and the mental health of the nation, require an accounting for the real crimes of actual persons against the people of America lo these years of the Woke Jacobin Inquisition.

Finally, as the days dwindle down to November 5, you understand exactly what motivates the three layers of evil heaping America with malice and punishment. Layer one: the officers of the political establishment, a.k.a., "the blob" or Deep State, both current and emeritus. You know now that they are motivated to stay out of courts-of-law (and, ultimately, prison). Figures such as John Brennan, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Wray, Anthony Fauci, Alejandro Mayorkas, Barack Obama, and many more, exude culpability for doing real harm to US citizens. They do not want to do time. As Dr. Johnson famously said: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." They see Donald Trump's poll number go hockey stick and they tremble in their Beltway mansions. On the Kubler-Ross transect of grief, they are just now wavering between the stages of anger and bargaining."