Science Fiction metaphor for Trump versus FBI

Let's face it, Trump versus the FBI (and now school shooting) seems to be taking up more and more of the diminishing oxygen in that part of the national mind which is devoted to politics.

A week or two ago, I told myself: "There is a time for rest and recovery, to take a break from what we see on CNN, and also from very complicated ever more problematic issues out there in reality."
(When they took down my web page, that also suggested a time to be quiet.)

So to relax -- I read a nice science fiction novel, something I have actually not done for many months lately... first Madness in Solidar (by Modesitt). (I am now mostly done the sequel.) Modesitt is a very clear writer and thinker, but it seemed irrelevant to those scary things happening on CNN...

Until I realized this morning that there is a powerful (though imperfect) analogy between Rex Dafou and Collegium, of the Madness novel, and Trump and FBI. Since the Collegium is presented in a very positive way (despite one bad guy they need to track down), I can imagine that guys in the FBI might like this metaphor a lot, even if it is too flattering in a way. (I have often wished for something MORE like the Collegium of the story, or like Asimov's foundations, but that's another story.)

In the story, the Collegium works very, very hard to preserve the historic constitution or codex of the country, which includes supporting the proper role of the Rex. But Dafou is utterly unwilling to compromise, and in the end they simply remove him, in favor of the better of his two obvious heirs (sons). (The one married to a woman who in retrospect reminds me of Ivanka!)

But in the sequel... the removal of Dafou is followed by problems which grow to be far worse, which the Collegium had not prepared for as well as it might. There is a problem with old style oligarchs... and that too, sadly, does fit the realities of modern America, where it is not just the army which has dangerous traitors to any viable social contract.

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In truth, Trump is certainly not as shallow or as totally opposed to compromise as the character in this novel... in my view.. though Schumer might well have a different view. Trump himself may have been longing for some kind of break these past two weeks...