Off the Rails with Adam Schiff

There is much to dislike about Donald Trump:

• Narcissistic personality
• Tax cuts for rich
• Reckless policies with regard to environment
• Overly partisan in favor of Netanyahu
• Reckless in withdrawing from Iran nuclear deal (JPCOA)
• Reckless in killing Iranian general Soleimani
• Jingoistic

I could go on and on.  So why did a Democrat such as Adam Schiff go all out in attacking Trump for something he didn't do (collude with Russia)?  How did the quick pivot to Ukraine come about?  Is Schiff a hero for his perseverance in attacking Trump on issues of foreign policy, or is he a dupe distracting attention from Trump's very serious shortcomings?

Schiff is heavily supported by the military industrial complex.  

The defense contractors love him. Northrop Grumman ($16,217), SAIC ($11,005), Lockheed Martin ($10,298), Boeing ($10,208), Honeywell ($10,025), Raytheon ($7,040), and General Dynamics ($7,038) are all among his major donors.

Schiff is chairman of the the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  As such, he gets inside scoops from the CIA and other intelligence agencies.   His job is to support these constituents.  We Democrats appreciate his ability to bring the real power of the military intelligence complex to our side of the table.  And so the mainstream media, which doesn't not like Trump for many good reasons (see above), views Schiff as an asset, encouraging him in his attack on Trump from the military intelligence angle.

So Schiff has been doing his job as he sees it while becoming a national figure as opposed to a niche Democrat connected to the military intelligence complex.  He's too close to the intelligence community and thus unable to see big picture.  The Russia collusion charges were false charges initiated from within the intelligence community.  The Ukraine pivot was a counterattack by the intelligence community against the Trump administration which had successfully defended itself against the Russian collusion charges and was, legitimately, looking into how those false charges got taken so seriously in the first place.  Schiff and his mainstream Democratic supporters never accepted the truth regarding Russiagate as they gone too far out on the limb to plausibly return. 

And that's how we got to the point where Democrats are attacking Trump for things he didn't do, as opposed to his many glaring weaknesses.  Schiff is leading the Democratic and NeverTrump Republican lemmings over the cliff.

UPDATE:  Aaron Maté: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/impeachment-trump-cold-war/