Deep State, Washington Establishment, good Ol' Boy System....whatever you want to call it - it's all the same.
People take power, ignore the Govt as created / intended, and begin building / creating their own realm where they do what they want, that benefits them.
The Clintons have been about themselves, power, money, etc from the very start. They ALWAYS believed they were exceptions to the rules, that the Rules / Laws did not apply to them. Through selling access, information, favors, threats, intimidation, etc they made powerful friends, silenced enemies, and remained 'untouchable'.
Rosenstein, Mueller, Comey - all joined at the hip. Obama, Holder, Lynch, Mueller, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Koskinen - 1 man does not illegally spy on the American people, on reporters, on the media, on members of the US Senate, on members of the US Supreme Court by himself...1 man does not affect the use of the IRS as a political weapon by the illegally targeting of US citizens he refers to as his 'political enemies' by himself.
Hillary said those who do not accept the results of elections are threats to our Democracy. True; however, those who seize power, violate the Constitution and Rule of Law, place themselves above those 2, and do whatever they want without consequence because they ARE the 'enforcers' are just as if not greater threats to this country and our Democracy. They are people of power working against the system to remake the system / country outside of the law.
'Are they all in on it?'
The IG and others have pointed out that the current US govt is filled with 'Obama / Hillary Loyalists'...which means you have a dedicated group of partisan individuals intent on still running the country according to THEIR opinions, desires, ideology, loyal to each others and to those things rather than to the Constitution, Rule of Law, and to this country. The country has been 'hijacked'...'taken over'.
Strzok demonstrated this. The evidence revealed has demonstrated this.
- Obama 'owned' the DOJ, FBI, CIA, IRS, and Intel Agencies - all of them were used to violate both the Constitution and Rule of Law.
- FBI: Mueller protected the Russians and their interest in 2009...he was Comey's Mentor. Comey's wife took money from the Clintons. McCabe's wife took money from Hillary. Strzok was / is a fanatic - a loyalist to Hillary and declared he thought it was HIS DUTY to protect the US from Trump after Hillary's loss...the FBI wrote they had to have an 'Insurance Policy' in case Trump won... Good grief!
It's not just a 'conspiracy' of a group of people for a specific ideology. There are other groups who act together outside the law for their own personal benefit / gain - Look at how Congress has practiced the 'frog slow boil' practice on the American people to get them to accept their Un-Constitutional Acts.
- EXPLANATION: The way you boil frogs is to slowly increase the temperature of the water so they don't notice the increased heat...until it is too late.
Today Congress - professional elected politicians - have perks that the Constitution and US government never afforded them, ones they UN-CONSTITUTIONALLY gave themselves...and they did it slowly so as not to alarm citizens and get quick push-back. Their exempting themselves from the ACA is a perfect example. Congress does NOT have the Constitutional Authority to exempt themselves from the laws they pass...yet they did so anyway. WHY didn't Americans rebel, put an end to it immediately? 'Slow Boil' Conditioning.
John Conyers created / helped create a system where US Tax Dollars were stolen and used to pay his and other politician perv's sexual misconduct victims for their silence, a system designed to avoid being caught and held accountable for their misconduct. There is no Constitutional . Legal authority to do any of that, but it was mutually beneficial to them to do so / for each other so they did it anyway, confident that the American people would never be the wiser because the size of govt is so huge...and politicians like Hillary, Obama...and I am sure GOP...withhold information / refuse to comply with FOIA / Federal Records Act.
There is SO MUCH of it - Un-Constitutional, Illegal, corrupt, criminal...we SEE it, but we have been conditioned for so long to accept it that we not only accept it these days, we DEFEND it when it is 'OUR politicians' doing it.
Out country, our government is like a garden. It is hard work, takes, tending - you have to get your hands dirty in it not just sit back on your ass and WATCH it. When you see the weeds crop up you have to pull them out - get rid of them. America hasn't done that. We let the weeds grow wild....and people now wonder why we have the situation we have now, have had for years?!
Obama, Hillary, Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Holder, Lynch, Clapper, Brennan, Koskinen, Bush, McConnell, Conyers, Franken, Moore, Manafort, even Trump....they are 'weeds' to some extent. Some are bigger....some are smaller...all have...or will. ..take their own unique toll on 'the garden'... and, for the good of the country, hyper-partisans need to STOP defending one 'weed' over another.
...IMHO...