The Left has gone mad over former President Donald J. Trump — past, present, and future.
The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and remains so obviously toxic that they do not have to define exactly what his evil entails.
Accordingly, they believe that any means necessary are justified to stop him. And furthermore, these zealots, when out of power, insist such extraordinary measures should not be emulated and institutionalized by their opponents, much less ever boomeranged back upon their creators.
In this context, the Republicans retaking control of the House of Representatives once again raises the question of whether they should reply in kind.
Given the current investigation following the Mar-a-Lago raid, should there also be a mirror-image special prosecutor to examine President Joe Biden’s lost stash of classified documents in his insecure office following his vice presidency?
Can House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ever be considered too inflammatory, given that his predecessor, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tore up the president’s State of the Union address on national television?
How many Democratic House members should be denied committee assignments to remind the Congress that Pelosi’s rejection of Republican nominees was a terrible precedent?
How many congressional subpoenas with threats of criminal prosecution and performance-art arrests should be issued to Democratic politicos to stop the criminalization of political differences?
In our current age, will all former presidents’ private homes, closets, and drawers now be subject to FBI raids to ensure that “classified” documents were not wrongly stored there?
Are Biden’s current homes also a logical target, given his sloppy handling of classified foreign policy papers — eerily reminiscent of an abandoned laptop belonging to son Hunter Biden and daughter Ashley Biden’s lost diary?
Was it ever a good idea to impeach a first-term president the moment he lost his party’s majority in the House — but without any hope of a conviction in the Senate? Would such a similar impeachment send a warning to Biden to honor his oath of office and start enforcing U.S. immigration law?
Does a phone call now an impeachment make, on the grounds that Trump mixed domestic politics with foreign policy?
But was Trump’s Ukrainian call that much different from former President Barack Obama’s 2012 quid pro quo in Seoul, South Korea, where he asked the Russian president to convey a deal to Vladmir Putin: Stay calm and give Obama space during his reelection bid while Obama in turn would be flexible on missile defense.
Putin did just that and put off invading Ukraine until Obama was reelected. And Obama made sure there was no joint missile defense projects in Eastern Europe. Was that deal in America’s interest, or Obama’s own and thus similarly impeachable?
Or consider Biden mixing foreign policy and politics on the eve of the midterm elections. For example, he kept draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to dangerously low levels while begging hostile foreign dictators to pump more oil.
Thereby Biden sought to win votes from angry commuters buffeted by high fuel prices. And he also appeased the Left by not ordering more drilling for gas and oil. Was that gambit in the nation’s — or Biden’s — best interest?
What is wrong with the House investigating whether the FBI infiltrated and contracted social media companies to warp news coverage and suppress free expression of American citizens?
The Left certainly thought it was necessary in 1975 for the Church Committee to investigate the CIA. That committee found the agency was contracting new organizations to front for its covert operations, while partnering with telecommunications corporations to monitor the data of citizens on CIA watch lists. Sound familiar to today’s FBI?
Was it a good idea for the Democratic House to release Trump’s tax returns?
If the Republican House were to do the same with the Biden consortium’s tax records, would the result be far more incriminating?
There was much talk once in Congress of evoking the 25th Amendment to remove a supposedly mentally impaired Trump. A Yale psychiatrist was even paraded before Congress to attest the president was dangerously unbalanced. Calls for aptitude testing resulted in Trump acing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
Should the House now follow the Democrats’ precedent? Should medical professionals review all of Biden’s incoherent utterances, his fantasy biographic tales, and his often physical fragility and determine whether he is non compos mentis? Is that a precedent we wish to follow?
When a defeated first-term president leaves office and vows to return in four years, is it wise to impeach and try him as a private citizen?
Did not the House impeach Trump in part because he warned the Ukrainians that Biden, a possible opponent in 2020, was likely corrupt? Do the endless Democratic efforts to go after Trump, a possible Biden opponent in 2024, constitute far more than a Trump single phone call to the president of Ukraine?
Somehow supposedly worldly and sophisticated partisans in their self-righteousness ignored ancient laws of what goes around comes around, of Karma, of Nemesis, of payback’s a bit—h, and all that stuff.
Is not a Golem a figment of ancient Jewish magical legend, an inanimate creation brought to life for sinister purpose, presumably an ugly vengeance, which upon completion, releases the Golem to wander about inflicting suffering upon vast numbers of innocents unconnected in any way to the historical offense.?
Is not TDS the Democrat Party’s Golem/i>?
They created it. Let them savor the consequences.
It’s all about imagery, what image will the man in the street take home from it. Truth matters not, only the image left in voters minds. — The dims play by their own rules and lie about it.
Actually, golems were reputed to fight for justice in most cases They killed the evil, not the innocent.
If you believe those legends, which I don’t. They’re good stories, though..
Is not a Golem a figment of ancient Jewish magical legend, an inanimate creation brought to life for sinister purpose, presumably an ugly vengeance, which upon completion, releases the Golem to wander about inflicting suffering upon vast numbers of innocents unconnected in any way to the historical offense.?
Is not TDS the Democrat Party’s Golem?
They created it. Let them savor the consequences.
Note to Admin: please delete the version with the screwed up html command. Thanks.
I understand allowing edits of previous postings can prompt dishonesty.
Rather than endure dishonesty or endless typos, would it be possible for preview?
The Android™ O/S with which I am stuck, sticks me with enough rewrites that striking the closing period converts careful word-smithing into gibberish.
Have you noticed that predictive text has now become completely woke nonsense? Try typing came, next word suggested is “out” for example.
It’s woke.
It’s telling you that it’s time you” came out” that used to mean as gay now it’s trans….or something.
Maybe as a furry, Hey, idk.
What goes around can be unpredictable. Biden could be removed by means that were used on Trump. This could be the Democrat plan. The classified material Biden has could be the path used. If so, the Democrats could still use their prior attack on Trump with the excuse that they were serious about the issue. They may try to get Biden out and prevent Trump from running. In doing that they would need to make sure that Harris is out of the picture. The Republican House surely is justified in returning the favor of the double edged sword.
Biden should be impeached but he won’t be convicted. And, even if he is still alive, he won’t be the D nominee in 2024, .
I’m afraid the Republicans will let most of it slide, until one day we find our freedoms gone.
Maybe all this leftist anti-Trump hysteria is because Donald Trump has become sort of a symble of the all American way of free enterprise which proponents of Marxism and Socialism detest.
Likewise, maybe far left people hate Donald Trump with a passion because they might view him as kind of representative of the Judeo- Christian values and precepts that are in strong contrast to their Red /Green alliance agenda .
Some of those of the left -wing are so extreme that they even get mad at the very mention of the name of Donald Trump. Which is a reflection of the wisdom printed in the periodical entitled POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC by Benjamin Franklin . which reads ” There are many reasons to become angry, but very few good ones.”
Most likely, Donald Trump will end up being the very best President that the United States will ever have in twenty -first century.
Of course! President Trump has already proved he can do it. Better than any other President in the past 200 years, in my view!
It’s too bad you never heard of Ronald Reagan.
dwight eisenhauer
Ron DeSantis will be a much better POTUS. He’s a much better person and a much better politician. He doesn’t say stupid things and he fights more intelligently.
Looks like Trump is right again. He’s not perfect, but at this point, he was and still is the most honest guy in DC. No wonder the Deep State hates him so much.
Not one of the false charges against Trump haven’t any merit its just we see the Globalists and their ilk trying to turn the whole of America into one vast Global Neighborhood with those who don’t get a long with us and who demands that we must all change the way we live to meet with their ideas
The UN Agenda 2030 is asking for exactly that.
“…to turn the whole of America into one vast Global Neighborhood with those who don’t get a long with us and who demands that we must all change the way we live to meet with their ideas….”
While we labor to support them, they’re wives and children with free food, healthcare, housing, legal services and education.
All the while worshipping them because of their intersectional qualities.
Sleepy Joe shouldn’t even have a job scrubbing toilets, let alone, sitting in the Oval Office.
Every action that the incompetent fool has taken has resulted in ruin – the hasty abandonment of Afghanistan (for a 911 photo-op) being the most deleterious. (Had the Taliban faxed over demands, they couldn’t have asked for more.)
*Biden is trailer-park-trash without the charm of Slick Willie. A five minute conversion with Sleepy, confirms he has the lowest I.Q. ever to stumble into politics.
Peter O’Toole once acted in a movie that ended up junk. During filming he said of the (Italian) director: “In a well-ordered world, he’d be a window washer in Venice.”
I don’t think the choice is between wild revenge or on other hand RINO polite submission to “ the left” ( or globalists or deep state whatever the monicker -btw I like “golem”) .
Shouldn’t the response match the crimes? In this case, treason, defamation, propaganda (legal or not) maybe addressing the use of a bioweapon. Not for revenge per se but to stop tyranny. To save a nation and each citizen in it no matter what party or philosophy they hold? Ya’ think?
I’ve been disgusted by this author’s past silly, prissy critiques of “Trump’s style” as if that matters in the context of the nature of the challenge we face. .
I am please to see he finally ate his spinach and now abandons that RINO BS and is ready to consider “fighting to the finish” Welcome aboard reality, VDH.
Clearly investigations and subpoenas are necessary tto deal with the dubious policies of this administration that responds in word soup and censorship of dissent and which thrives on an administrative state telling us how to think and live
“In our current age, will all former president’s private homes, closets, and drawers now be subject to FBI raids to ensure that “classified” documents were not wrongly stored there?” We see that they will not be. Trump got a raid by 20+ heavily armed federal agents who made his lawyers stay out of the building (in Florida, in August) for nine hours while they searched. Biden was allowed to have his own lawyers, i.e., his legal agents bound to look out for his interests, “search” his locations. (In that regard, don’t forget that Sandy Berger was a lawyer, too.) No matter how much we might want to payback the other side, the fact is we don’t have the institutional power to do so. Where we can, however, we must. Otherwise there will be no penalty to the Left’s predations.
Trump derangement made my resident leftist into a real pain, too much of the time, to be around. Tiresome noise box needing to make everything the fault of Trump is a very good expression for this madness, and the thing is – it never ends.
They are completely eaten up with it for sure David!
Considering how very bad things are for the average American, how is it possible Republicans did so bad in the mid terms?
1) Unwinnable candidates in many of the states. (I speak from experience, being a Pennsylvania resident whose only choices were lightweights like Dr. Oz and Doug Mastriano).
2) Trump’s toxic involvement. Like it or not, Trump’s presence continues to alienate independents who might otherwise consider voting GOP.
3) The overwhelming power of left-wing urban centers, which continue to hold inordinate sway over our national elections.
4) The Democratic Party’s grass-roots electoral activism, rule-changing and manipulations.
#4 is the killer.
Thanks for the thoughtful analysis.
The fraud in elections has been going on for many years. The left is not really winning, they are stealing elections to gain POWER. These Dominion machines should be done away with and paper ballots used, as well as voter rolls cleaned up and honest officials running the polling places.
Let’s be honest: Things are bad only if you’re a tax-paying middle-class working American. For the wealthy elites at one end of the spectrum and the hangers on at the other end who contribute nothing to society but only take from the system, it’s not such a bad place.
What you describe is pretty much the case, eh? One wonders if the only thing which might now grab Washington, D.C.’s attention is a MASSIVE tax-payer revolt. (But the only way a “tax rebellion” works is if one has the iron-clad belief scores of millions of other taxpayers will join in, withholding tax money in such numbers as to make I.R.S. retaliation unlikely, and the political consequences existentially imperative. It’s a steep hill to climb.)
Not enough people in this country with the backbone like our original American Patriots had in 1775. And most of the Greatest Generation of WWII is gone so sadly, I think it would never happen but I agree with you!
Nothing that Mr. Tapson has written here about the behavior of the American left is wrong. But what’s missing is an honest evaluation of Trump’s own culpability in creating the mess in which he and the Republican Party now find themselves. Full disclosure: I did not vote for Trump in ’16 because he was not, and is not, a Constitutional conservative. I did, however, vote for him ’20 because, as bad a president as he was, I felt he was still better than the alternative.
His tenure as president was marked with very little actual accomplishment but a whole lot of chaos, vindictiveness, insults, egomania, bullying, combativeness, profanity and mockery from the White House. In other words, his tenure very much reflected his own borderline personality.
Trump’s antics since the ’20 election have turned me against him for good. It’s abhorrent that anyone who calls himself a conservative could still defend a man who:
— called his own Vice President a “pussy” for upholding the Constitution;
— fired up an angry mob and sent them to go protest at the Capitol in an effort to stop certification of an election, something a sitting president should never have done, not ever;
— tried to (illegally) insert his own hand-picked elector certifications into the system in certain states in an attempt to overturn the election results there;
— removed highly classified materials to an unsecured location in violation of federal law; and who
— most important, called for the Constitution itself to be cast aside so that he could be reinstated.
That last point alone should have been enough for self-styled Constitutionalists like Mr. Tapson to abandon the Trump train. But the Trump poison still infects the Party. If you want to see the corrosive effect Mr. Trump has had on our national psyche, just read the insulting responses that are about to follow this comment.
I consider the last point to be overstated. He was exasperated. And I sympathize.
Exasperation at what has been done to us is exactly how I feel. We are being undone in a unholy alliance between the professionally corrupt and the ideologically mistaken. The Left’s claims universal moral supremacy and functional infallibility. But they seem to present only hoaxes, no arguments.
I like Trump much more now than in 2016. I haven’t watched television since before going into the Army in the sixties. All I knew about Trump comes from his investment in Resorts International hotel in Atlantic City, and its sale to Merv Griffin.
Indisputably the best chief executive since Reagan.
The country was cheated far more he was. He’s only one guy.
We are in full agreement regarding your second paragraph. And I appreciate the civil response….and your military service. I really mean that.
Trump crashed the party and told the corrupt attendees that he was going to start turning over every rock he could get his hands on. The partiers could NOT let that happen, so they had to destroy him. COMPLETELY, without remorse or conscience. It was an ezxistential war that they HAD to win, no matter what.
I fear for Trump’s physical safety. The Swamp Dwellers are evil and desperate.
They presumed that their dominance would keep it from ever coming around.
>>> “the Republicans retaking control of the House of Representatives once again raises the question of whether they should reply in kind.” <<<
The problem with replying in kind with leftists is that it gives them another chance to play the victim card.
In his book IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING, George Simon says that such people spin their own behavior to make mole hills out of mountains, and spin others' behavior to make mountains out of mole hills.
In chapter 10 he says, "Aggressive personalities are always looking for an excuse to go to war. So, they will construe any sort of hostility as an `attack' and feel justified in launching an offensive. Besides, attacking their character `invites' them to use their favorite offensive tactics such as denial, selective inattention or blaming others. Don't back away from necessary confrontation, but be sure to confront in a manner that is up-front, yet non-aggressive."
David Mamet's play OLEANNA involves a professor who is endlessly and monotonously and offensively verbally attacked by a female student for his—nonexistent!—male chauvinism (spoiler ahead). And he finally becomes so exasperated he attacks her back, rather making her accusations of his male chauvinism a self-fulfilling prophecy, when you know that now his career, and, really, his life, is over.
Some subtlety, strategically applied, is required…
The New World Order wants instability. They need to have a crisis going on to move their agenda forward. If the world were enjoying peace and security, a world without borders wouldn’t be needed. We’re looking at the phrase “Fundamentally Change America” which was Obama’s goal.
We see the formation of the New World Order through the UN, and the World Economic Forum. They have an allegiance with world leaders for their Marxist plans to enslave the world and reshape it.
They didn’t like Trump’s plans to Make America Great again because it would never profit the establishment, or their cause. Thats why there has been one false witch hunt after another to remove him from the scene. The movers and shakers of the New World Order needed a fear-induced crisis like the pandemic that would change the nations. The result of this engineered crisis is lawlessness, unconstitutional mandates, poverty, drug crisis, death, human trafficking,, supply chain interruptions, and tyranny. In no way do these people like Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates make the world a better place, or create a better way of life.
Having been a political junkie since before Watergate, I can’t help but express concern for so many who don’t understand the trouble our American experiment is in. Trump is simply the American character that exhibits all of our accumulated faults and yes, sins. With the weight of such baggage, he was willing to commit himself to the fight of a lifetime. I would not have bet that he would have risked his fame and fortune to go in to that lions den called Washington D C politics, but then he carries around an enormous ego.
Understanding all of that, I am left with the realization that no one else could have stepped in to stir up that hornets nest we call the swamp. If this ship of state is to be turned around we are going to need less squeamish voters and supporters. The well mannered, soft spoken, cultured fellow will just not do. Those of us who grew up watching westerns understand that the west was tamed by rugged men and women who were not afraid to face the troubles ahead. Whether they be two legged, four legged, rough terrain or extreme weather, the trouble was met with grit and with hope and faith in a brighter future for our progeny. Isn’t that the American way?
When I see the phrase “Democratic Party” I stop reading.
Second sentence.
What caused the anti-Trump “jhysteria”? That’s easy…Trump acting like a poltroon, that’s what.
Prof. Hanson, being far more intelligent than the average Trump idolater, ought to be ashamed of himself for still supporting Trump after his post-2020 election shenanigans.
He knows that Trump is an outrageous liar and had committed some very probably criminal offense but still tries tot defend the indefensible.
Shame on Prof. Hanson.
Because thinking people understand that nothing is going to happen to Biden/Democrats for their deliberate lies/actions. I want the House Republicans to focus on actually taking actions FOR America/Americans. They don’t control congresstWH, so they are unlikely to succeed but they need to be seen as fighting hard together for things that matter and fighting even harder against the democrats proposals of harmful things. The GOP has a huge reputation/credibility issue. Instead of spending time/moneyteffort trying to punish Biden, they need to spend all of their frequent times back home out talking to real Americans about real issues, about real possible solutions, explaining where the democrat party stands on such issues, and humbly asking people to give the GOP one more chance by voting Republican in 2024. Ask people to not only vote GOP but to work actively in their communities to convince others. Also, ask people who are not happy with a current rep in the House or Senate to look around them for a better person fir that job. If the republicans fight in congress as hard as the dems (without the lies/hypocrisy) over these next 2 years and actually work hard with their constituents about what they want to do in congress, why those things do not get done, then maybe they might turn things around next election. But, as for me, that will be their last chance.becayse they do not deserve more.
As weeks go by, and more and more outrageous events occur, I feel that I am a co-resident of Alice’s Wonderland. I can only believe that Americans are either asleep or hypnotized into inertia or acceptance, while their homes burn around them.
I am a Christian Constitutional Conservative and an 87-year-old great-grandmother. Before 2008 I was unaware of the danger overtaking our country. I was too busy with my life–raising five children alone, while working full-time and finishing my education part-time. Now that I have lifted my head, and see what is happening, I find it hard to breathe. The anxiety for our country and our way-of-life is overwhelming.
Attacks on our faith and morality, on our Constitution, and on our patriotism are ever more extreme. And what are we doing about it? How can we be so helpless against this evil?!
I was always patriotic, but until then I hadn’t involved myself with politics. Then, after reading “Dark Agenda, The War to Destroy Christian America” by David Horowitz, I was frightened. I read more books about our country’s history over the past 65 years and realized that we had been under attack even before then. But most of us have been asleep or brain-washed into giving up our moral and patriotic values.
We have to WAKE UP!! We can’t just talk and complain! We have now had two elections that were won by fraud, unconstitutional rule changes, and censorship in our social media and the MSM that deprived voters of knowledge they needed about the unconstitutional and sometimes treasonous activities by the Democrat’s in power who could not bear to lose that power.
Before it was just the colleges and universities, but now they want to consume our Kindergartners with their CRT and transgenderism, their immorality, and racial tensions. I can only believe that the hate and rage that is coming from some of the Democrats is from this ignorant derangement. Some of the Republicans are no better–not just the RINOs, but also those apathetic Republican politicians that are only concerned about their careers.
It can’t be too late. I just read “Final Battle,” another book by David Horowitz. I urge you to read those two books and spread the word. Then please join me in prayer. We must keep a prayer ring going around the country and God will answer!!