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The Making of a Banana Republic
Real Clear Politics ^ | 5/10/24 | Josh Hammer

Posted on 05/11/2024 2:47:13 AM PDT by CFW

It is a presidential election year and a leading candidate for president of the United States, who also happens to be a former president of the US, is currently a criminal defendant chained to a dingy courtroom four days of the week -- time that he should be spending interacting with voters out on the campaign trail.

That's terrible. But it's only the beginning.

The daughter of the presiding judge is a professional political operative for the presidential candidate's opposition party, and the candidate himself is subject to an over-inclusive and unconstitutional gag order. The George Soros-funded district attorney, who campaigned on a platform of prosecuting that candidate, only pressed charges after his own left-wing predecessor opted not to do so due to the frivolous nature of the charges. One of the Soros-funded DA's subordinates curiously joined his team, just in time to prosecute the candidate, from a high-ranking perch in the Department of Justice that is headed by the candidate's chief political rival.

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Democrats seem not to have given any thought to what happens if they lose -- an entirely distinct possibility, given the incumbent's poor swing-state polling and widespread malaise among the electorate. If Trump wins, do Democrats seriously not expect him to respond in kind? Now that the Rubicon has been crossed and we have entered a world in which politicians attempt to not merely defeat their opposition at the ballot box but also prosecute and incarcerate them, there is no going back. Just as Senate Democrats' November 2013 invocation of the "nuclear option" to end the filibuster for lower-court nominees directly led to Republicans doing the same for Supreme Court nominees just a few years later, so too is it impossible to know what may ultimately come from the lawfare precedent Democrats are setting today.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; biden; elections; soros; sorosfunded; trump; trumppersecution
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The votes for Trump are going to have to be so overwhelming that the totals have to be outside the margin of cheating.

Also, I hope the RNC with its new leadership, is serious about having legal teams in place in all the usual cheating counties.

1 posted on 05/11/2024 2:47:13 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW; SisterK; Chode
Probably just a coincidence. Nothing to see here; move along.








2 posted on 05/11/2024 2:52:53 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: CFW

On day one, I hope Trump’s DOJ appoints a special persecutor to investigate Biden’s influence peddling all the way to the grave.


3 posted on 05/11/2024 3:01:32 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: CFW

CORRUPT, IMMORAL, IRRELIGIOUS DEMOCRATS PROVE JOHN ADAMS WAS CORRECT


4 posted on 05/11/2024 3:14:09 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Where Islam dominates freedom, civility, Jews and Christians die)
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To: CFW

The making of? We’re already there.


5 posted on 05/11/2024 3:18:29 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

The Judiciary is the new FBI. They flushed their credibility down the toilet to get Trump and become political lapdogs.

Someone in the Judicial hierarchy should have stopped it. But, they were afraid to. Now they are all covered in the same bucket of shit.


6 posted on 05/11/2024 3:21:25 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: CFW

The Rubicon was crossed in the Watergate affajr.


7 posted on 05/11/2024 3:22:57 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Daveinyork

At least Watergate was an actual crime.


8 posted on 05/11/2024 3:29:29 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: CFW

All directed by obammy and big Mike.


9 posted on 05/11/2024 3:41:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Daveinyork

“The Rubicon was crossed in the Watergate affajr.”

Perhaps earlier with the JFK assassination.


10 posted on 05/11/2024 3:58:53 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: CFW

The left has been playing rough for years. The right has been playing checkers. It is time for the right to man up and take it to the left just as hard. SWAT raids, lawfare and harsh prison sentences.


11 posted on 05/11/2024 4:00:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Iron Munro

constitutional convention


12 posted on 05/11/2024 4:07:15 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: MtnClimber

There is no need for the Right to engage in lawfare. The Democrats and their allies have committed actual felony crimes for which they should justifiably be prosecuted and imprisoned for.


13 posted on 05/11/2024 4:09:03 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Soul of the South

I believe history will show that the real coup occurred on November 22, 1963.


14 posted on 05/11/2024 4:09:51 AM PDT by 230FMJ (From my cold, dead hands.)
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To: SaveFerris

15 posted on 05/11/2024 4:28:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CFW
The Making of a Banana Republic

By: Osama Obama,The Former Twelfth Lady,The Big Guy's Puppet Masters and Saul Alinsky

16 posted on 05/11/2024 4:38:37 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: maddog55

Yes we are, unfortunately.


17 posted on 05/11/2024 4:53:16 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MtnClimber
"It is time for the right to man up and take it to the left just as hard. SWAT raids, lawfare and harsh prison sentences."

I would add to that, "long term incarceration awaiting trials that are years away" - just like the J6er's. This includes the heads of media organizations that are suspected of having colluded.

18 posted on 05/11/2024 5:21:21 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: CFW
A Banana Republic is a place which runs up crazy, unsustainable debt and where the political opposition always ends up in jail (or worse). I'm talking about the real opposition, not the tame, token opposition. We qualify on both counts.

Since Trump is the real opposition and this is a Banana Republic, he will go to jail.

19 posted on 05/11/2024 5:32:43 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: Iron Munro

Pretty evident what Adams meant & how it would apply to the type of government we would be having for several administrations.


20 posted on 05/11/2024 5:41:57 AM PDT by oldtech
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