James Comey (Don Quixote) tilts at America

James Comey is a modern day version of the Don Quixote—knight-errant. Comey, just like Don Quixote, is deluded and a master of bad judgement. Quixotic has become a word and it means “exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.”

Like Don Quixote crossing the countryside, James Comey has made the scene at countless TV studios. His story now is “how I got fired by orange hued Donald Trump” just for being a good guy. Funny…Comey’s inept handling of things may have changed American history.

Comey, a long, lanky man with a certain similarity to Don Quijote, now pleads his innocence. Comey may have torpedoed Hillary Clinton’s run for president in the final days when he announced the re-investigation of her emails. An FBI director jumping into the election at a point just 10 days before the election, doesn’t have any precedent in American history. Comey used his nobleman’s jousting pole and bashed Hillary to the ground a few feet from her lifelong goal—the Presidency.

Comey’s first windmill— presuming Hillary’s election victory before it ever happened and feeling he had to ensure her legitimacy—blew up in everybody’s face. Comey may have elected Donald Trump! And then Comey got fired by Trump. It’s all a TV show, right?

Comey, like the confused Don Quixote, created by author Miguel de Cervantes, plunged ahead against perceived foes, chimeras, shadowy outcomes, but somehow intruded upon reality. 

Note the connection between James Comey and Don Quixote: 

Don Quixote's tendency to intervene violently in matters irrelevant to himself, and his habit of not paying debts, result in privations, injuries, and humiliations (with Sancho often the victim).

(Wikipedia)

The connection becomes clear. Just as Don Quijote roamed the countryside looking for enemies, Comey now roams the land looking for TV studios to promote his new book—A Higher Loyalty. 

There is a higher loyalty here—to James Comey himself. And Comey’s main loyalty seems to his book sales. First he interfered in the 2016 election. That’s something to write about—though he spins his role in the whole affair. 

With the Comey book tour promoting A Higher Loyalty he’s stomping his oversize shoes all over the Mueller investigation. The man has a talent for inserting himself deep into the heart of American history. Comey seems impervious to his own real motives. The man is being disingenuous or lacks candor. The silver lining, Robert Mueller was brought in to handle the investigation.

Comey, an admittedly telegenic presence, has some of the hangdog appeal of Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha. He claims to be a knight in shining armor— working on behalf of America. 

For my money, he is more the knight-errant.