It was always predictable that establishment Republicans would turn on President Trump as soon as he was weak; that’s what political animals do. Sure, they paid lip service to his agenda while he wielded power, but this was clearly only going to last until that power dissipated. They are opportunists all.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell epitomizes this, and a lie-ridden speech he gave in the Capitol last night epitomizes him. As American Thinker’s Patricia McCarthy writes today:
The soon-to-be minority leader of the Senate today lied to the American people when he said there was not sufficient evidence of fraud to overturn the election results or the certification votes of the Electoral College. There are mountains of evidence, especially from the six contested states. McConnell betrayed the president, his supporters, and his own constituents who only just re-elected him in November. His recent re-election is probably why he felt comfortable breaking faith with the 74 million Trump-supporters.
He will never be re-elected again. The same goes for each and every Republican in Congress who is afraid to stand up for what is right and true. Those are the ones who go to Washington to get rich, not to represent their districts. God forbid they ruffle the feathers of the media, the propaganda arms of the left. God forbid they not be invited to the D.C. cocktail parties for swells. They like being a member of the self-appointed elite. Once there, they lose all allegiance to “the people.”
McCarthy is correct about most politicians’ primary concerns being career, power, privilege, and reputation. The problem is that the qualities necessary to do a political office justice are far different from those necessary to attain it.
A good statesman must be wise, honest, just, responsible, courageous, diligent, charitable (in spirit), temperate, and intelligent — in a word, virtuous (and the politicians reflecting these qualities, all three of them, are quite impressive).
Yet aside from smarts and perhaps diligence, these qualities don’t cut much campaign-trail ice. Rather, someone who looks good, speaks well and is glib (think Governor Cuomo), and is adept at dissembling and deceit is king. You have to be a, in three words, slick con man.
Speaking of McConnell, few do politics better. Where McCarthy may be wrong, however, is in saying he’ll never be reelected again (unless, that is, he doesn’t run again. He’ll be 84 at his current term’s end).
Fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini once said that he’d learned as a journalist, his earlier career (surprised?), that you could tell one lie one day and then a perhaps contradictory one two weeks later and people generally wouldn’t pick up on it. Most have short memories.
This said, we are living in a time of disillusionment in which a third party that sends the Republicans the way of the Whigs could arise. Regardless, the following McConnell statement should, if possible, be remembered.
“This afternoon, Congress began the process of honoring the will of the American people and counting the Electoral College votes,” McConnell said (video below), after having vowed the Senate wouldn’t be “intimidated.”
Once could remark that McConnell made his comment with a straight face. Yet it’s always straight, quite contrary to his morality.
If the senator had a lamentable duty to do, fine, but it should have been done under protest at best. For the American people’s will was not done, but thwarted — by electoral thieves.
Less Machiavellian and more naïve than McConnell, I suspect, is Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.). Appearing yesterday on Tucker Carlson Tonight, he was nauseatingly circumspect, speaking of how politicians had to understand that Americans are rightfully upset about voting “irregularities.”
Well, that is one way to characterize boldly stealing a presidency and two Senate seats in an election that will change the face of the nation forever.
Towards the interview’s end, Gallagher said to Carlson, you “can tell me if you think this is stupid,” but “every state is going to have to do a version of what Florida did post-2000: take a look at their voting processes. It should be the top priority” in all the states where there’ve been “irregularities” (video below).
Okay, congressman, it’s stupid. This isn’t because it wouldn’t be great, but because the voting system “flaws” aren’t a bug.
They’re a feature.
In case you didn’t notice, congressman, large-scale vote fraud has been occurring for decades; it’s hard to believe too many “connected” people don’t know it, and many have admitted they in fact do.
In case you didn’t notice, congressman, state authorities purposely degraded voting laws last year — with wide-scale mail-in balloting and sometimes the elimination, or dumbing down, of signature verification — to facilitate electoral fraud.
And in case you didn’t notice, congressman, on the new Congress’s first day, “they voted not to reform any election laws,” as McCarthy points out.
“Of course they did!” she continues. “They are all in on the cheating and proud of it.”
Correct. Last year’s grand theft was the jump-the-shark-version of vote fraud (only, these actors don’t have to worry about ratings). It was in-your-face. The leftists knew the media, courts, and establishment in general wouldn’t hold them accountable — and they know it double now.
Thus will they simply replicate the theft process in the future and try to transition us into “a third-world nation in which all elections are rigged,” as McCarthy laments.
Yet we should note that the “transition” presents an opportunity. That is, McCarthy also plaintively notes that neo-Marxist/fascist dystopia “is the path that apparently half of the population of the United States has now embraced.” But, yet, there is that other half.
There still are states with mostly honest elections (e.g., Utah, Oklahoma, South Dakota), which is why Democrats lost so many down-ballot 2020 races. If traditionalists really want to fight back — as opposed to just wailing about how “our freedom is lost” and “America is gone” — then these states need to pursue nullification on a massive scale.
It’s that, or “go gentle into that good night.” Note that nullification isn’t a spitting-into-the-wind pipe dream such as hoping VP Mike Pence will discard electoral votes. Rather, it’s what Thomas Jefferson called the “rightful remedy” for all federal usurpation of states’ powers.
It’s also what the Founders did when, risking their necks and showing guts, they defied British law. Do we, today, have the guts to defy bolshevik law?
