Peggy Noonan explains why DC is evil

Sadly Noonan thinks she's defending the DC Swamp when she's actually condemning it.

She admits that half of the people in DC were willing to do anything to get rid of Trump.

The other half however were so magnanimous that if Trump conformed to their vision they would let him stay:

"But the other half of official Washington, though to varying degrees disapproving of Trump, often for reasons that were almost aesthetic, was willing to be surprised. They were open to persuasion. They didn’t say this but they thought it. They’d give him time and watch events closely."

Noonan is so used to the Swamp that she has no idea how that sounds to Americans who work to pay for our government. We don't think that our vote has to be approved of by the unelected over paid under worked DC denizens.

The sheer hubris of Noonan and her DC friends is clear; a president isn't a president until the beltway insiders approve of him.

She goes on to say;

"Pretty quickly and to the entire edifice of Washington, it became clear Donald Trump was not a Jacksonian shock to the system, which is what his supporters think he was. He was a daily system overload, a one-man frying of the grid."

Only bubble people don't realize that America wants DC fried. We're tired of bureaucrats who declare that they have the right to rule us.  We're tired of those incompetents who populate the government trying to run every aspect of our lives.

But like the plantation owners of old Noonan honestly feels that she and her ilk are better than those of us who actually pay the bills.

One of her big beefs with Trump is that he didn't hire the "right" people.  Of course her idea of the "right" people is based on the Bubbles criteria.  Here's her take on Mueller:

"He was a patriot looking to finish a distinguished career with integrity."

Given that he did everything he could to give "breadcrumbs" to Democrats to impeach Trump even though he didn't find any evidence of any criminal or impeachable offenses it's clear that he's a patriot in the DC sense; someone who wants to enrich the Bubble people and grow the government while using the full power of the government to crush anyone who disagrees with the Bubble view on any issue.

Noonan concludes by saying:

"Seriousness and calm would be nice, and after the past few years would serve as a welcome counterpoint. There is an unarticulated wish out there to return to some past in which things were deeply imperfect and certainly divided but on some level tranquil, and not half mad."

So to her the fact that in the past Catholic nuns were being forced to cooperate in abortions, that the US turned Libya into a failed state and terrorist producer, that the economy was horrible, that unemployment was high, weren't important.  What mattered is that the denizens of the Swamp had calm.

In the end Noonan's clear message is that the whole idea of a government for, by, and of the people is stupid.  Rather the "smart" cultured self styled elites in DC should be given power to run the lives of the Americans who do the work that pays the bills.