I'd really like to think this all indicates some kind of linear narrative, but post-America is a funny place

S. E. Cupp takes a paragraph of her latest column to sprint us through the scandals that have shaped the Most Equal Comrade's regime's rule through the last week or so:

From Fast and Furious at the ATF to the Pigford fraud at the Department of Agriculture, the IRS’ political targeting to the State Department’s Benghazi mess, the healthcare.gov debacle at HHS to spying at the NSA and the DOJ, President Obama is running out of agencies and departments to defend in his two years left in office.

She then goes on to discuss the VA scandal and accurately identifies its core cause as huge government.

And, as you probably know by now, there's an even fresher mess: the outing of the CIA's chief undercover officer in Afghanistan.

Brit Hume depicts the scope and impact of this one:

This, I think, in political terms is damaging to the administration because it feeds into the question of whether the administration can in fact administer. We had first the fiasco with the rollout of the health care program. Now we've got the troubles at the VA. now this blunder by the White House press office. 

Think about this, this is an administration that is fond of telling us -- that the president is fond of telling us that he finds out about these things in the press. In this case, this was something that his press office put out and the mistake wasn't noted until somebody in the press told him about it. So they found about this from the press all right, after they put it out. That's a high level of bungling, I think it's fair to say. 

It's going to feed into this whole question about whether the administration can run anything.

A protective news media notwithstanding, people are finding out about these developments, and getting a sense of the significance of their sum total.  Other signs that people are on to the failure of MEC-ism abound.  FHer-care remains unpopular.  As noted here yesterday, the nation's public-school students are throwing away the rabbit food Michelle insists that cafeterias serve.  There are signs throughout society of discreet seething over inescapable political correctness.

There are signs abroad, such as the results of EU parliamentary elections in countries as far-flung as Denmark, Greece and the UK, as well as the election of free-market champion Narendra Modi as prime minister in India, as well as his clear understanding of what's necessary - on Pakistan's part - for peaceable relations between the two neighbors.

So there are still some clear heads in this world.

But there's still more nonsense permeating our civilization than there has been in a long time.  Certainly,  evidence of the considerable presence of rabid leftism abounds on social media as well as in the punditry world and the halls of government.  But there's also Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome, and the insinuation of grotesque societal transformation into the ethos of the corporate world.

And then there's the way identity politics greases the skids for the H-Word Creature the way it did for the Most Equal Comrade starting in the middle of the last decade.

And then there's the silliness of what's left of our culture.

Human history is a messy story, full of mixed signals and developments suddenly arising.  You're not going to find a 98 percent majority of humanity suddenly signing on to an impeccably sensible and noble worldview for the rest of our species' life span.

Still, I'm cautiously optimistic that post-America may be waking up and wanting actual America back.

Any fresh goof-ups by the MEC regime, and I think freedom has a fighting chance.