Posted on 11/24/2025 5:03:17 AM PST by MtnClimber
Democrats now celebrate the very nullificationist tactics they once decried, embracing a neo-Confederate defiance of federal authority to undermine a president they despise.
Is Jeff Davis the Model?
Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party?
The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency?
Or perhaps Jefferson Davis? He ultimately ordered the attack by South Carolina state forces against the federal garrison at Fort Sumter, which ignited the Civil War.
Or is the better inspiration the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door?” Alabama Governor George Wallace likewise vowed to use his state’s law enforcement to nullify a federal law.
Yet how odd that the left, which had lectured us so often about a January 6th “insurrection”—a charge that not even the Javert-like special counsel Jack Smith ever lodged against Donald Trump—now talks frequently about the proud nullification of our nation’s federal laws.
The New Confederacy
Democrats weirdly boast of the subordination of the Constitution to international statutes. Our governors and mayors in blue states and cities take neo-Confederate vows to oppose the national government’s right to protect its own property, to direct its own employees, and to enforce our shared federal laws.
Over a decade ago, some 600 “sanctuary cities” declared that they were immune from the full enforcement of federal law. They further boasted that they would not hand over illegal aliens, detained by state or local authorities, to federal agents.
These were strange threats. Not long ago, at the 1992 and 1996 Democratic conventions, liberal grandees like Bill and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi had vowed to stop all would-be illegal aliens from unlawfully entering the U.S.
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So far, the leading tactic to counteract the insurrection is to say “Tsk Tsk you shouldn’t do that.”
Anarcho-Tyranny is “oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety.”
Maybe we ought to turn that around as “Anarcho-Justice” and allow citizens to take out the trash while the government finds itself paralyzed and incapable to protecting criminals.
I will argue none of the above.
The factor in play is merely arrogant ignorance.
The City States believe they hold all the cards in a winning hand while failing to account for Presidential power granted by the Constitution. They rely on lawyers and judges to make foolish decisions based on faulty interpretation of the law
Trump should arrest Democrat leaders as insurrectionists to set an example that insurrection will not be tolerated. Pecker puss Pelosi, Newsome, Slotkin and Johnson are good choices for persecution A sedition trial would be entertaining.
*** So far, the leading tactic to counteract the insurrection is to say “Tsk Tsk you shouldn’t do that.” ***
Totally discouraging to see “our side” simply comment that the commies are doing bad things, then move on.
Biden didn't need their help, since he wasn't actually elected anyway, and still would have received enough "votes" regardless of what those "intelligence authorities" said about Hunter's laptop.
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Democrats weirdly boast of subordinating the Constitution to international statutes.
<><>governors and mayors in blue states and cities take neo-Confederate vows
<><>they oppose government rights
<><>rights to protect govt property, to direct govt employees, and to enforce shared federal laws.
<><>some 600 “sanctuary cities” declared they were immune from full enforcement of federal law.
<><>They boasted they would not hand over detained illegals to federal agents.
<><>at the 1992 and 1996 Dem conventions, liberal grandees Clintons and Pelosi were cocksure
<><>they vowed then to stop would-be illegals from unlawfully entering the US.
I think that is what will happen.
That’s telling them Vic!
Liberals wear their contempt for US law and the Constitution like a badge of honor. Even with VDH’s impeccable wordsmithing he never is able make democrats feel any shame or embarrassment.
The desperate left feels the more insurrectionary tensions they can gin up, the more that the ensuing domestic crises hurt an elected president whom they loathe. They assume they are exempt from following the law because they believe they are our moral and intellectual superiors.
A fantastic Prof Hanson article that should be required reading, but sadly will not. Well worth your time!
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The left is emulating Jefferson Davis? Aren’t they still villifying him as a slave owning RRRACCCIST?
The traitorous Demonicrats are openly practicing sedition and insurrection because they realize that nothing will be done about their actions, other than sternly worded letters and press releases.
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