Posted on 02/23/2024 9:51:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What’s driving the lawfare against Donald Trump and MAGA?
Superficially, the answer is politics and the quest for power, where lawfare is the only practicable way for power to be gained. That’s because Democrat policies and ideology — lawfare is a Democrat thing — are widely unpopular, notably with independents, in whose hands nationwide election outcomes frequently rest. Under normal circumstances, open borders, infanticide, “chest-feeding” and other transgender fictions — in general, turning America into California — do not present ready avenues to political power.
And now, with Judge Arthur Engoron’s $355-million fine of Trump for his Manhattan business dealings, we see what is really driving lawfare: unreason. Not corruption, although that’s a factor. (Since there are no victims for Trump’s “fraud,” the state of New York gets to have the money, which is self-dealing on steroids.) No, what’s undermining the rule of law is a kind of irrationality. Unquestionably, the rule of law is facing an ignoble collapse in New York State. Learned Hand and Benjamin Cardozo must be rolling in their graves.
Corruption isn’t the driver of the rule of law’s impending collapse unless intellectual corruption is meant. And even that doesn’t really explain the present threat to the rule of law. It’s not corruption of the intellect that’s driving the nationwide practice of lawfare, of which the state of New York is merely a harbinger (including A.G. Letitia James’s embryonic prosecution qua persecution of the invaluable website Vdare). No, the real driver of lawfare is unreason — disdain for, or thinly veiled hostility toward, impartial rationality, of the kind that Cardozo and Hand devoutly believed in.
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The author makes some good points. Yes, Trump’s opponents are advancing unreason. In addition to this, and possibly primarily, people like Judge Engoron are advancing the spirit of lies.
Trump’s enemies are the opponents of truth itself.
Cultural Marxism, everyone should read the thing posted yesterday re:
Antonio Gramsci: The Godfather of Cultural Marxism
“war on position”
It was written 100+yrs ago and nailed precisely what is going in this country at the current moment.
The concept is captured very, VERY well in the highly underrated film, Devil’s Advocate.
Al Pacino is Satan, and on Earth, he is the Managing Partner, or Chief Legal Officer of a huge, fabulously successful law firm in NYC. How he did not win Best Actor for this I will never know.
Anyway, in trying to explain to his attorney son, Keanu Reeves (also excellent in this film) why he chose the law to accomplish his ends, Pacino begins:
https://youtu.be/N0D_pGYO16Q?si=Bh5O7ZgV_273Kv0g&t=206
3:27
cut the [ __ ] dad why lawyers why the law
3:30
because the law my boy puts us into
3:33
everything
3:35
it’s the ultimate backstage pass it’s
3:38
the new priesthood baby
3:40
did you know there are more students in
3:42
law school than there are lawyers
3:44
walking the earth we’re coming out
3:47
guns blazing
3:50
the two of you
3:52
all of us acquittal after acquittal
3:55
after acquittal until the stench of it
3:57
reaches so high and far into heaven it
4:00
chokes the whole [ __ ] lot of them
4:06
in the bible you lose
4:09
we’re destined to lose dad well consider
4:12
the source son
4:15
besides
4:16
we’re gonna write our own book
4:18
chapter one
4:21
right here this altar
4:24
this moment
Amazingly prescient. Great movie.
“disdain for, or thinly veiled hostility toward, impartial rationality”
The only explanation for this behavior is Satanic, demonic influence and in some cases demonic possession.
The Lord is sovereign, yes but Satan and his minions rule temporally over the world. Eventually the evil forces will destroy themselves and whatever remains will be destroyed by God.
If the state can haul you into court (where they can choose their own biased judges against you) and fine you enough money to basically take everything you own, do you actually OWN anything?
Yeah, I know, elections and the left's plot to break its political enemy got us here, but where is it going next? If they break Trump, the precedent is set. We are all at the mercy of the state.
“It’s simple communism at work.
If the state can haul you into court (where they can choose their own biased judges against you) and fine you enough money to basically take everything you own, do you actually OWN anything?”
Right on the money. It is asset forfeiture that ends with the government owning everything.
Agreed—wonderful movie—and on point here.
Good post.
Bkmk
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