I just wrote this yesterday. I’m making a print version of my short stuff, 2010 to 2018, which included a piece about F&F. Just yesterday I wrote this to stick at the end:
(December, 2018 note: I believe that the Obama administration was so emboldened by the lack of consequences following Operation Fast and Furious, that they believed they could get away with anything at all. Politicizing the IRS, lying about Benghazi, Uranium One, the deep state coup against Donald Trump and other unpunished scandals all flowed from the non-reaction to Fast and Furious by the Congress and the mainstream media. Fast and Furious was the green light to weaponize every federal agency against Barack Obama’s enemies.)
To double down after years of
Corruption, theft and murder
is par for the course with
These “Deep State Swine.”
I believe that observation is a dead-center bullseye.
Before that, even though their game plan didn’t pan out, their attempts to back the traitor Zelaya’s takeover of Honduras was the first indication to me that the 0bama-Hillary presidency was going to be a no-limits run for as many socialist/globalist touchdowns as they could get.
I think you correctly identify the point in time when they knew that the opposition was going to stand down and attempt no blocks or interceptions. The GOPe took dive after dive and let them run the scoreboard.