The Borking Bullies of the Left

AmericanSpectator ^ | November 23, 2016 | GEORGE NEUMAYR

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The Borking Bullies of the Left GEORGE NEUMAYR November 23

They are a “throwback to a shameful era.”

Mike Pence’s trip to the theater didn’t end as badly as Lincoln’s, but it is not hard to imagine the entitled actors shouting “Sic semper tyrannis!” at him. They are in a secessionist mood. Hollywood liberals are now entertaining fantasies of an independent California through “Calexit.” They would like to “leave the country” but without leaving their Malibu mansions. At this rate, John Wilkes Booth may end up with a star on Hollywood’s walk of fame.

It was amusing to watch the actors lecture Pence on the founding “ideals” of the country even as they throw infantile tantrums about those supposedly antiquated principles. When not performing in Hamilton, they are out marching against the electoral college, which Alexander Hamilton in part designed.

The “ideals” to which they refer originated, not in 1776, but more like 1966. And they don’t even rise to the level of ideals. They amount to a totalitarianism in which “freedom” and “justice” possess no meaning apart from whatever liberals want at any given moment. Under this willfulness, to take one of its more blatant manifestations, honest cops are treated like criminals while advocates for the criminal class, such as Al Sharpton, get to re-design police departments.

The prospect of that racket coming to a close has the Borking bullies of the left gearing up for a savage trashing of Sen. Jeff Sessions.

Newspapers under their control are publishing glorious reminiscences of Sen. Ted Kennedy’s opposition to President Ronald Reagan’s appointment of Sessions to the federal court. But anyone who bothers to study that Borking can quickly see what a Soviet-style show trial Sessions suffered. Ted Kennedy’s opening statement against Sessions was pitiful in its crudeness. Kennedy thundered against......