The three main camps on today's two big issues

The two biggies currently on the national plate - the aftermath of the Kim - VSG summit and the Inspector General's report about the FBI and DoJ - have provoked distinct reactions from the various camps situated along the spectrum (although "spectrum" suggests a smooth continuum, something that may not be the most accurate characterization of the fragments of ossified tribalism arrayed before us). We can tell much about what camp someone falls into by what he or she has to say about either matter.

Herewith a look at the positions that two of the  three main camps have reflexively crouched into with regard to them, and what the other camp sees:

The slavish devotees of Donald Trump - Their position is that the IG report is the final bit of proof anybody needs to conclude that there is a Deep State, a conspiratorial network within the byzantine bowels of the governmental bureaucracy that's impervious to election results, and that had a sinister master plan to thwart Trump and Republicans generally. The problem is that, while Stzrok may have emailed to his sweetie Page, "We'll stop it," um, Trump got elected anyway, and he's still president. And, with regard to the summit aftermath, they see everything from the tweets to the salute of the North Korean general to Pompeo's clean-up-crew reassurances that nothing of a unicorns-and-rainbows nature happens until verifiable denuclearization is underway as evidence of their idol's combination of shrewdness, vision, and tough-guy attitude. (I had a guy in a Facebook exchange answer my question about the appeasement statements - the stuff about Kim being "talented" and his people loving him - by calling it "bait.")

The hate-filled Left - There's some irony in their positions on each of these matters. To these folks, the IG report merely shows some poor judgement at the FBI and the Justice Department. They have some simple recommendations of an organizational-reform nature that they say will clean everything up. Interestingly, many of them have come to share the slavish Trump devotees' loathing of Comey, due to his reopening of the Madame BleachBit investigation in October 2016. Beyond that, though, they want to see the Mueller investigation go on. They are as convinced of nefarious machinations on the part of the VSG campaign as the slavish VSG devotees are of a Deep State cabal. With regard to the summit aftermath, some real irony is evident. The Left basically shares the view of the group below - namely, that the VSG is up to his eyeballs in appeasement of the world's most evil and brutal regime.

Actual conservatives - Regarding the IG report, their (full disclosure: our) position is that the FBI and DoJ, like just about every federal-government department or agency - or, for that matter, any sprawling bureaucracy, such as the education world, large corporations, NGOs, to name a few - tilts left, and that it's naive to be surprised about it. On the matter of the summit aftermath, they (we) are nothing short of appalled at the appeasement rhetoric coming from the Very Stable Genius.  Kim's people do not love him. He did not get his job at age 27 because he was "talented." As has been said elsewhere, our heads would be exploding with outrage if the Most Equal Comrade had said such things. They (we) hope that the VSG backs off from this dangerous talk and defers to the grownups among his advisors: Pompeo, Bolton and their staffs.

In a moment as weird as ours, it behooves us to be wary of anyone who says, after pontificating on either of these subjects, or most subjects that involve the Very Stable Genius, "This proves once and for all that . . . " If you hear that phrase, be prepared for a hefty dose of confirmation bias.

Far better to stay tethered to reality.