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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That’s one of the odder spectacles of the land. Why are there (and where are the) Kim Davises of the land?
Blue Dogs still exist, not understanding the enormity of what their national party has gotten into.
RATs/RINOs....same thing.
So what is there to be done with it?
If the idea is just to be a right hand mirror of the left, we would have simply entered tragedy B rather than tragedy A.
You know the left is losing when they call for “civility” and “dialogue.”
The Left can go to hell. Pound them without mercy, Mr.Trump. Then salt the earth around them.
WSJ continues as the voice of Uniparty and the Cheap Labor Express.
Mr. Trump, do not bypass Fallujah. Your vicious and deranged opponents do NOT want peace.
I believe you’re right.
IDK if the author was NeverTrump, but he is as pro-Cruz, or even more so, as anyone I’ve encountered:
Trump won. To the extent that the RATs fall in line and support his agenda, they will get their pats on the back. (I don’t think that Trump needs to worry about muscle fatigue.)
During the government shutdown the Park Service even CONED OFF those two Highway turnouts that afforded nice photographic Vistas and they threatened to ticket people who slowed down.
Doddering Old World War II veterans in wheelchairs taking their last chance to visit new World War II Memorial were threatened with arrest.
Exactly!
So here we are. We won, you lost. STFU.
Magnanamous this!
As in “Hell is coming to breakfast”?
There is no reason for Trump not to ask for unity and reach across the aisle for democrats to unite...
I fully expect the libtards to reject Trump on every level...
After they reject Trump, Trump can simply ignore them and move forward...
Some will figure out they are irrelevant and compromise their positions...
Elections indeed have consequences. We won, they lost. Screw them.
No. No. No. They lost for a reason, our side kissing their cracker jack rings is NOT going to happen. Quite the opposite.
Suck it up, buttercups.
this is the time to crush the Left in America
no quarter
He can probably get around 75-80% agreement, as long as he continues to move forward with his announced agenda. He can get people who want to work for a living, who want to succeed and see their children succeed, who want an even break.
He won't get the hard-core people who vote for a living, or the committed hard-core lunatic fringe socialists, communists, fascists, totalitarians, America-haters. And he probably won't get all of the decent people in this country either, but close.
We need to be more Marxist to prove our Conservatism? Sorry, that is not the direction America voted for.
Pray America woke
Be magnanimous! Yes! Don’t deport all the Progressives to Africa. Send them to Europe for which they have expressed a preference over the USA.Be nice to them. Give them 30 days, not 24 hours.
Dealing with dems is like dealing with 3 year olds. They need to go onto “time out” for 4 years.
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