Posted on 11/25/2016 5:18:00 AM PST by Kaslin
It is November, and the air reverberates with cries for unity and bipartisanship. The Republicans must have won an election. Sentiments such as "I won" and "You ran the bus into the ditch, so now sit in the back seat and be quiet" are more associated with Democratic triumphs.
Advising the new president on his treatment of Democrats, the Wall Street Journal's editors counsel "charity for all." They draw upon Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, delivered just before the end of the Civil War. Is that really applicable to Mr. Trump's dealings with his political adversaries? Lincoln spoke after the South had suffered the slaughter of its manhood, the destruction or besiegement of its cities, and utter defeat, with formal surrender a month away. Lincoln's admonition looked to a time after victory.
Winning an election is not in and of itself victory – not if the objective is to change the nation's course and to preserve its constitution. The election placed the necessary means of success in the Republicans' hands – the presidency and legislative majorities in both house of Congress – but it remains for them to use those means. Victory on D-Day was won not merely by sending an armada into the English Channel.
The South capitulated at the end of the Civil War. Have the Democrats capitulated? Do they show any signs of moderating their hatred of the president-elect or of conservatives like Senator Sessions, whose nomination to the office of attorney general they vow to derail? Do we discern any lessening in their contempt for the Constitution itself, as demands to abolish the Electoral College or even to corrupt its imminent vote abound?
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Elections have consequences.
F-word the RATs.
Right on.
Is that what Obama did?
Why?
When Obama came to office, one of his first comments to the now minority Republican House and Senate was a snarky, “The Republicans can come with us, but they’ll have to sit in the back”.
I think it only fair that the same courtesy and consideration be afforded to what’s left of the Democrats in Congress...
Thank you, sir. Can I have another?
Its ALWAYS the same ppl. Its always the CUCKS and the NEVERTRUMPERS who want us to play nice with democrats and media while they stab our back every time they get power.
I guess we are supposed to help them put roadblocks in our way.
Failure to identify, isolate and destroy your enemy at every point is how we have lost every conflict since WWII.
A war is over when your enemy chooses to no longer fight.
Magnanimity is currently defined as concession and surrender because your ideals are unworthy.
>>Elections have consequences.<<
Grind them under our heel.
We’re going to make America Great Again. The left can either get on board or get out of the way AFAIC.
Well of course. They would do the same thing if they had won. LOLOLOLOLOL! Sure they would. But they didn’t.
Trump is talking about unifying the nation because that’s pretty much what’s expected. I’m assuming that he doesn’t seriously believe that unification is possible.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!
Yeah right. NOT
He will magnanimously allow them an opportunity to be useful and let them destroy what’s left of them all on their own....
Trump is a far better person than I by even meeting with Mitt Romney. Perhaps it’s why HE is a billionaire and I’m happy to pay my electric bill.
In my 7 decades on this Earth, I’ve never seen such viciousness toward a candidate. They were awful to Reagan and terrible to Palin. Their treatment pales compared to the way Trump was treated. Just look at the fashion designers who won’t “dress” his drop-dead gorgeous, fashion model wife simply because she’s married to Trump. His son was jeered on the street; another son is subject to a rumor about being autistic. There’s pretty much no low to how far they have stooped. But Chelsea Clinton and Malia and Sasha Obama were totally off limits.
The Congresswoman from HI is an interesting possibility. Beyond that, I can’t think of a single Dem since Zell Miller who’d be worth a moment’s consideration by Donald Trump.
No. It is, though, time to show Democrats that what we are saying actually works. We can’t do that by splitting the difference with them.
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