Posted on 05/13/2024 9:52:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Lawfare against a top presidential candidate has its consequences.
Do any of the Democrats engaged in lawfare against President Trump read the news about leftists south of the border who do the same things they are doing?
Maybe Panama's election a week ago would be useful for them to know.
According to Foreign Policy, which has a good, if somewhat left-slanted overview of what went on there:
The winner, José Raúl Mulino, was a stand-in candidate for former President Ricardo Martinelli, who was disqualified due to a money laundering conviction. (Outgoing center-left President Laurentino Cortizo was barred from running due to a ban on immediate reelection.)
Martinelli governed Panama from 2009 to 2014, during an economic boom. Despite his legal woes, many Panamanians remain loyal to Martinelli. Mulino, who served as Martinelli’s security minister and referenced the economic abundance of Martinelli’s tenure on the campaign trail, earned around 34 percent of votes on Sunday—enough for victory in Panama’s one-round presidential race.
Sure, every country is different.
But the parallels here are quite striking. A former president who brought prosperity to his country through conservative and free market values from 2009 to 2014, Ricardo Martinelli, was running for a non-consecutive term as president. (Panama law doesn't permit consecutive terms).
The left, which took power after him, made a hash of the economy, and turned Panama into a illegal alien superhighway, leaving voters with only the memory of how good things were during Martinelli's administration.
The Associated Press seemed to think the voters remembered:
While he lacks Martinelli’s charisma, the economic boom seen under his ally pushed many voters to support Mulino at a time that Panama’s economy has lagged.
Foreign Policy put out its excusemaking for the left's miserable record in power this way:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The left just wants to watch things burn. They tend to be great deceivers so weak-minded people are easily influenced to follow them.
It will be interesting to see what the reaction to this new leader of Panama is, the forces in the USA and around the world that want open borders are huge and well financed, if the Leader of Panama actually shuts down the Darien Gap and stops that flow of illegals, I could some powerful forces getting rid of this new leader, maybe he falls out of a window on the tallest building in Panama, etc.
Perhaps the open borders crowd should worry about the “turnabout is fair play” rule.
The Left does not think of "fair" the way most people do.
To the Left, this version of "free speech" is "fair":
Your speech is violence. My violence is speech.
you would think...but they don’t. “extrapolation of current events to determine a probable outcome is lost on the myopic vision of the typical liberal progessive, hence their total surprise when the outcome is exactly what would have been predicted had they simply employed a little extrapolation...but didn’t” L.Star
Sadly, true that they think this. But I don't have to accept it as true and neither should LEO or citizens who have means to defend themselves.
This is an interesting article.
Thx for posting it.
Glad you liked it. I did too.
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