Really Bad Precedents - 8/23/2022

Last night I read an excellent article by John Soloman from his "Just the News" site. The article (link below) details how the Biden Administration has green lighted the investigation of President Trump that led to the Mar-A-Lago raid that has infuriated me and so many others. I want to explore with you some of the implications in my mind that come from all this. First, if you're interested, the Soloman piece:

justthenews.com John Soloman Article

 

If you don't read Soloman's "Just the News", maybe you should.

The first thing Trump supporters and even detractors need to realize is that among Biden supporters and Trump detractors, be they GOP establishment types or Democrats, is a core belief that Trump is corrupt. It's probably safe to say it's a compilation of reasons that drives them to this presumption of guilt.

First, there's his boorish, abrasive, inappropriate behavior and big mouth. Supporters may recognize that only the nastiness of a wolverine can confront the predatory and vicious attacks that come at every prominent Republican candidate. They came at Bush One and Bush Two, at Romney and McCain. They'll come at DeSantis or whoever is next with vicious attacks, too. Trump may be the only kind of a candidate who can stand up to the attacks, and does so the only way he knows how, by attacking his detractors just as viciously. It may be the only strategy that can withstand the attacks, but to many it's beyond unseemly all the way to unacceptable. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Then there's the fact he's a successful entrepreneur of significant wealth. There is a presumption among many, especially on the left, that every company and person who is highly successful financially is corrupt. To the socialistic and communist left, business is the daytime home of the boogymen that hide under their beds waiting to pounce when they close their eyes seeking peaceful sleep. Trump and his kind wait for just such moments to destroy the innocent and "helpless".

And lastly, his political initiatives, positions, and programs are at odds with all that is progressive and leftist, things that in their minds are all goodness. So someone like Trump who would challenge and thwart the good and beneficial progressive agenda must surely be evil and accusations of criminality are certainly befitting such an evil doer as that.

What I am telling you, is that underneath all these efforts to get Trump: in New York by a DA who campaigned on a "I will get Trump" platform, in Georgia, where Trump did the unconscionable by not just questioning an election he did not believe was conducted legally or fairly, and in DC, where Trump's efforts to drain the swamp were an affront to bureaucrats across the entire broad range of Federal Government agencies, is a core belief in his guilt. Guilty of what? Of something. Of anything. Of everything. It was the DC swamp that sanctioned and enabled the unprecedented Mar-A-Lago raid. The raid was indeed sanctioned by the White House, and Joe Biden is lying when he says it wasn't or that he didn't know about it. Joe is hiding behind a flimsy plausible deniability curtain, but anyone with eyes can see right through it. There are report Joe has been pushing AG Merrick Garland to "get Trump". Why would Joe do this, breaking with 200+ years of precedent? I just told you. Trump's a jerk. He's a successful businessman, which means inherently corrupt, and he opposes the left's agenda, which is clearly an evil thing for anyone to do. So he's got to be guilty and they just need to catch him. It's imperative.

Think about this: The Biden Administration waived Trump's Executive Privilege. Insanity.

Lemme finish by turning this around a bit. I think the precedent of going all in to destroy Trump is the absolute worst political thing anyone of any political party or persuasion has done in my lifetime. There is a new precedent, a third world dictatorship mentality being embraced on the left and by never-Trump conservatives like Liz Cheney. Do you think that Hillary Clinton, Joe "10% for the big guy" Biden, and the heroes of the left are any less contemptible to me/us than Trump is to them? Do you think the fact these creeps spend a lifetime in "public service" and are worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars is any less an indication of corruption than Trump's business successes (and failures) are? Do you think to a conservative that the left's political initiatives, positions, and programs are any less evil or contemptible in the eyes of conservatives? The answers are no, no, and no. This new precedent of using the apparatus of the government to destroy our political opponents is a bad one, a very, very bad one. It is a mistake, a mistake that clearly the people doing so feel in their hearts is righteous and justified in making. I got news for them.

What goes around comes around.