Last night we got a glimpse at what Trump’s future agenda could be during a telephone interview on Fox News, preceded by a monologue and vilifying tirade against critics of the President delivered by Sean Hannity, who might be called Donald Trump’s new Minister of Propaganda on what amounts to State-sponsored television. Before speaking with Trump by phone, Hannity made wild claims and accusations which he accentuated by calling for the investigation and criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton and many others, including various and former government officials such as the former Director of the FBI, James Comey and other individuals Hannity characterized as criminal conspirators in an attempt to seize control of the government.

In his accusations, Hannity even went so far as to cite specific Federal statutes under which each individual might be indicted. Before the interview with Trump, Hannity spun a narrative concerning the intent of the Mueller investigation, framing it as an attempted coup… making outrageous accusations against specific individuals, fabrications he sought to bolster with contextually cynical misrepresentations in cherry-picked and curiously edited video clips that, if you were at all familiar with the original context, you would immediately recognize as outrageously inappropriate in reference to Hannity’s claims.

The actual phone interview with Trump was every bit as bizarre, with Trump reinforcing the claim that the Mueller investigation was nothing more than an attempt to unseat a duly elected President, an attack by a shadowy cabal of professional government bureaucrats that Hannity and other extreme right wing pundits often and consistently label as “the Deep State.” If it did not represent a looming, dangerous, and dark perspective from a mentally unstable individual in a position of power, these characterizations and clear threats of retribution by the President and his allies against anyone who dares to criticize or investigate him for wrongdoing would be laughable. But, in fact, it’s not in any way amusing. It’s all getting very real… and I wonder if we are not on the verge of a moment in time, the fulcrum of an historical narrative that we will one day identify as the beginning of a sinister evolution.