The three factors shaping the era we're now embarking upon

The avalanche of developments this week has been particularly intense, has it not?

The discrediting of Buzzfeed for trumpeting the dossier compiled by that private British intelligence firm, Squirrel-Hair's wild press conference, Senate confirmation hearings for cabinet appointees, the Most Equal Comrade's farewell speech, the last-minute overturning by the MEC regime of the longstanding wet foot-dry foot policy for Cuban refugees.

With regard to the confirmation hearings, it seems to me that they serve as an encapsulation of our current political dynamic. Dem lawmakers basically use their questioning opportunities as a stage for agonized howling, for cornered-animal baring of teeth. Probably the clearest example of that is Kamala Harris of California asking CIA-head appointee Mike Pompeo about his past statements on "climate change." Talk about an angle of inquiry completely irrelevant to the proceedings at hand! But before she let him respond, she announced to the world what a tiresome twit she is by reciting the thoroughly discredited claim that 97 percent of the world's scientific authorities are certain that the global climate is in some kind of trouble due to human activity. Pompeo responded courteously and effectively, but Harris having got her two cents in will be the point of obsession for much of the chattering class.

Ditto the exchange between HUD-head appointee Ben Carson and Elizabeth Warren. From what orifice did she pull her question - couched in oh-so-cordial language about how she really understands his earnest desire to run a tight ship; she really does - about how he would make sure no grant money from his department would end up in the Trump family's pockets?

Then there is Cory Booker, who had the gall, not only to vaguely and without substantiation, hint that Jeff Sessions holds callous disregard for certain demographics in American society, but to invoke Selma, for crying out loud - mere months after cosponsoring a bill with Sessions awarding the Selma marchers the Congressional Gold Medal and saying he was "blessed and honored" by the collaboration.

With regard to the more directly Squirrel-Hair-related developments, such as the setting up of a trust for his business dealings to deflect any hint of conflicts of interest, or the business about his attorney having been in California when the "intelligence report" claimed he was meeting with a Russian operative in Prague, or the dustup involving Buzzfeed, CNN and golden showers, the shakeout seems to be that the "journalistic community" in post-America is discredited to an even greater degree than it had been.

Which is not to say that S-H comes off looking like some noble figure. Most definitely not, as evidenced by the latest Quinnipiac poll. His jackassery was on full display at his presser, as it was in such tweets as that regarding Schwarzenegger's Apprentice ratings, in which he made a third-person referral to himself as "the ratings machine, DJT."

Upshot of it all: This is unfolding just about the way I foresaw it once November 8 made the way forward a done deal:

• Conservatism, while it has the obstacle of the juvenile aspects of S-H's personality to deal with, has its best opportunity in decades to inform public policy.
• The Left will employ ever more venomous - and insane - tactics in mounting a resistance to that, and 
• Squirrel-Hair will be an embarrassment on a regular basis.

And, barring the introduction of some entirely unforeseen development into the mix (always a possibility in this jagged reality we inhabit), that is the table setting for the era now upon us.