Get ready for officially-sponsored pseudoscandals

Charlie Pierce warns that the Justice Department of Jefferson Bearegard Sessions III, aka, the Evil Kebler Elf, is getting ready to create pseudoscandals to entertain the Republicans. But the consequences for real people could be serious (Jeff Sessions Will Waste Your Tax Dollars for the Foreseeable Future Esquire Politics Blog 12/09/2017):

In case you haven’t noticed, the entire investigatory apparatus of the federal government has turned into a Breitbart comment thread and, fairly soon, the glory days of Benghazi, Benghazi!, Benghazi! are going to seem like a golden era of good government. The Republican majorities in Congress—and, most recently, the Department of Justice, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, proprietor—have decided to give the reality-starved shut-ins of the Republican base performance pieces depicting all their favorite fantasies.

There are at least three congressional investigations touching on the completely fraudulent Uranium One “scandal.” JeffBo reportedly is “considering” appointing a second special counsel to look into everything congressional Republicans have gleaned from binge-watching Hannity. But it doesn’t stop there. Inevitably, we have come around to the completely truthless—and comically inept—fable of how Planned Parenthood sold off aborted fetuses for parts.

I'm afraid the Al Franken resignation business is leaving the Democratic Party even more vulnerable to pseudoscandals than before.

Every Democrat and every TV pundit should be required to ready and pass a comprehension exam on The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (2000) by Joe Conason and Gene Lyons. And to watch the companion documentary. Most of them won't.