The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven – All’s right with the world!
——— Robert Browning, “Pippa’s Song”
FBI Director James Comey has shown that he did evil but is not irredeemably evil. Forty-eight hours before Tuesday’s presidential election, he has essentially repented, recanted his Friday letter of ten days ago linking Hillary Clinton at the hip to sleaze ball Anthony Weiner’s lap top.
The air is out of the Trump campaign like an odious gas bag belching its noxious fumes. All there is now is the vicious, vile recriminations impugning the foundations and values of American democracy from populist loons led by faux conservatives who were supposed to defend the best in American traditions that they have now instead betrayed.
Rudy Giuliani—“America’s Mayor”—is now reduced the Mayor of the infernal precincts of Hades.
And in terms of American Jews, Tevye the Dairyman can continue to dance on the roof for awhile without worry that the Cossacks are already burning down the barn.
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