Posted on 02/23/2024 8:04:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
Was the $355 million fine against Donald Trump, for a “crime” that even the judge issuing the ruling admitted hurt no one, a bridge too far?
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul seems to think so, which is why she rushed out to say that other people doing business in New York have nothing to fear: “Law-abiding and rule-following New Yorkers who are businesspeople have nothing to worry about because they’re very different than Donald Trump and his behavior.”
What she should have said is: “if they are different from Donald Trump and his political views.”
Because nothing about this case, or the multitude of other unprecedented legal attacks against the former president — the attempts to kick him off ballots, the two bogus impeachments, the Russia hoax, the endless stream of media mis-reporting — has anything even remotely to do with “upholding the law” or “protecting Democracy.”
These attacks are all a message to anyone who would dare to run as a conservative. Do so, and we will stop at nothing to destroy you.
We should make it clear at this point that we’ve never been huge fans of Donald Trump. During the 2016 primaries, we weren’t sure he was even conservative. And while he went on to deliver several tremendous victories for conservatives (which we detailed in this space), his term in office wasn’t without its flaws. He failed to get the border wall built, for example. He made some serious mistakes in his appointments. He botched the handling of COVID-19.
Plus, as a general rule, we’d rather all these old timers — Trump, Biden, Hillary, Bernie, McConnell, etc. — would step aside and let the next generation of leaders get time in the sun. As the few who bothered to watch the Republican presidential debates saw, there is a lot of young talent in the GOP (talent that is notably lacking among Democrats, but that’s another story).
Having said all that, we’ve now reached a point where even if you hate Trump’s behavior, despise his temperament, think he isn’t a pure-enough conservative, or would prefer someone else less toxic carry the conservative banner, the choice is clear — either support Trump or condone the anti-democratic, extra-legal, election-integrity-destroying tactics of the left, which will forever poison the American political system, and will mean the end of conservatism in the U.S. for the foreseeable future.
Those who think this is just about Trump, or that Trump is a special case, or that once we get Trump out of the picture civility will return, are deluding themselves. If Mister Rogers ran as a conservative he’d be just as viciously attacked.
The affable Ronald Reagan was pilloried during his time in office as a warmonger, a hater, a doddering old fool and, of course, a fascist.
The milquetoast, barely conservative George W. Bush was said to have “begun to implement the 10 steps to take down a democratic nation.” The New Republic published a 3,600-word “case for Bush hatred.” A Nobel Peace Prize recipient declared that “right now, I could kill George Bush” and was feted for bravery.
If you want more recent evidence, look at how the left started treating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when it looked like he might give Trump a run for this money. We wrote about it in Sept. 2022 – “The ‘DeSantis Is Worse Than Trump’ Campaign Begins”.
The only difference between then and now is that the left’s previous campaigns failed. Reagan and Bush won reelections by substantial margins. And, despite the left’s best efforts, Trump managed to win in 2016.
What’s been happening since has been a public display of the left’s new, scorched-earth strategy for dealing with the political opposition. It started in the run-up to the 2020 election. As Time magazine so glowingly reported in early 2021, there was a “cross-partisan campaign” to defeat Trump, or as Time put it, “protect the election.”
Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction.
Since then, the left has added lawfare to its arsenal, which has now reached peak absurdity for the simple reason that Trump refuses to give in. But make no mistake, scalping Trump will only whet the left’s appetite for more scalps.
And who will be there to stop them?
If you go back over the past 100 years you start seeing this creep in. The country is being divided into people who make things and people who don't. And only the people who make nothing should be allowed to go into politics.
This is not a good road to go down.
How I wish I'd thought of that one. Perfectly discriptive.
Exactly. As Gorge Carlin is reported to have said, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”
Yeah we can count on Chung King Mitch
It really Frosts me that they had to throw in the border wall as a failure for trump. He did everything possible, and he did get some built. But the democrat-owned courts and the Congress screwed him six ways to sunday. There’s nobody in the world that could have done better on that subject than he did. We have a corrupt government that sabotaged everything he did
If we allow the lawfare to work against Trump, then it will be open season on any Republican that the Left wants to destroy.
The one way to stop this lawfare in its tracks is to give Trump a resounding victory - which will totally discredit lawfare as a political tactic.
Veggie Pedo Pete sure didn't. Almost lost my civilian job until the Supremes step in and stopped that dipstick. Let's go Brandon.
Fear has a shelf life. Let’s hope it is long enough to beat the living hell out of NY though I doubt it, I can hope.
Oh yeah. These people who wrote this are definitely conservatives who believe in meritocracy, not the sex, skin color, ethnicity, or...age.
Not.
Pretty stupid blanket statement, but they did say "...We should make it clear at this point that we’ve never been huge fans of Donald Trump..."
Yeah. We know who you people are.
With you 100%.
When I hear someone say “Trump didn’t get the wall built” from someone, I form a negative image of them right off the bat.
Either they didn’t pay attention to what was going on at the time (as many of us did, watching Trump scrape barrels to get a few tens of millions from here, and a few tens of millions of dollars from there, or...they never wanted him to succeed at building a wall at all.
They use it as a reverse-proxy attack on Trump, as in “we are ostensibly on his side, but he fell short because (INSERT REASON HERE)...” (Keeping in mind that saying about understanding just what someone is saying by only paying attention to the words that come AFTER the word “but” in a sentence)
Often, these same people, who vilified Reagan and never would have given him the time of day when he was alive, love to use his name as some kind of touch-point to make you think they were “down with the struggle”.
This is not to say there were not elements of this article that rang true.
“Do so, and we will stop at nothing to destroy you”
Message received. Loud and Clear.
Nah! There will still be ‘elections’. Gotta preserve’democracy’ The election winning results will be at 90%
The one way to stop this lawfare in its tracks is to give Trump a resounding victory - which will totally discredit lawfare as a political tactic."
This 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆 👀
"Those who think this is just about Trump, or that Trump is a special case, or that once we get Trump out of the picture civility will return, are deluding themselves."
Those days of what passed for civility, fair, justice, liberty and all are past. We are in a war with the left and we must fight it ruthlessly to defeat the enemy just as sure as if he was German, Jap, NORK, Viet Cong or any of the other many enemies of liberty we have confronted.
And people who are compromised by child traffickers, and those who aren't.
F’ the SC, I’m exhausted with waiting for those idiots.
I’m a conservative American, just like Trump and I’m fine with that label.
BTTT
Marking your home page FRiend.
Heavenly Father, please, share Your strength.
Tatt
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