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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Trump should keep his campaign promises. If the socialists had won, they would be shoving their program down our throats.
Excellent point. I could not have said it any better.
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their transgendered women.
He should just tweet those half dozen of Obama’s self-righteous observations about winning the election. Done.
Libtard Snowflakes bent on destruction
of Everything American should be Shamed and Mocked for the Ignorant Losers they are and Forced to wear a Scarlett “L”.
Trump personally has a larger vision. Society isn’t supposed to be a competition between two cruel follies.
“They were awful to Reagan and terrible to Palin.”
“They” had plenty of help from “us” here for the latter.
The REAL deplorables were the leftist freaks HERE who spent most of a year excreting hate and intolerance to tell us that Cruz was the ONLY choice, and if we didn’t like it, then we deserved Hitlery or worse.
Give ‘em the Josey Wales
Destroy the Democrats, and the RINOs.
Do the right thing in their face, and watch them destroy themselves if they keep on refusing to see the obvious.
Lincoln?
Yeah, I remember all right.
......And WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM??
Speaking of roadblocks, remember when Obama shut down national parks, and actually put up barricades to keep veterans out to try to punish us, now we are supposed to smile and let them dictate to us how to run everything even though we have a complete majority in every branch of govt.
There’s a lot of hate yet in the world, and it shows up in righty society as well as in lefty.
I believe this was attempted with W. How’d all that Republican compromise and civility work out then?
Went to heaven, as best I can tell.
There ARE registered Democrats who, really, are non-leftists, and it would be interesting to hear why they choose to remain in the Democratic Party, when the national Democratic Party has moved far leftwards.
” there was an election, and we won”
—barack obama
no. take no prisoners
Why? We won! They lost!
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