Who Are the Real Insurrectionists?
Victor Davis Hanson / @VDHanson / January 06, 2022
Recently, Democrats have been despondent over President Joe
Biden’s sinking poll numbers. His policies on the economy, energy,
foreign policy, the border, and COVID-19 all have lost majority
support.
As a result, the left now variously alleges that either in 2022,
when it expects to lose the Congress, or in 2024, when it fears los-
ing the presidency, Republicans will “destroy democracy” or stage a
coup.
A cynic might suggest that those on the left praise democracy
when they get elected, only to claim it is broken when they lose. Or
they hope to avoid their defeat by trying to terrify the electorate.
Or they mask their own revolutionary propensities by projecting them
onto their opponents.
After all, who is trying to federalize election laws in national
elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution? Who wishes to
repeal or circumvent the Electoral College? Who wishes to destroy the
more than 180-year-old Senate filibuster, the over 150-year-old nine
justice Supreme Court, and the more than 60-year-old 50-state union?
Who is attacking the founding constitutional idea of two senators
per state?
The Constitution also clearly states that “When the President of
the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.” Who
slammed through the impeachment of former President Donald Trump
without a presiding chief justice?
Never had a president been either impeached twice or tried in the
Senate as a private citizen. Who did both?
The left further broke prior precedent by impeaching Trump with-
out a special counsel’s report, formal hearings, witnesses, and cross
examinations.
Who exactly is violating federal civil rights legislation?
New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in December
decided to ration new potentially lifesaving COVID-19 medicines,
partially on the basis of race, in the name of “equity.”
The agency also allegedly used racial preferences to determine
who would be first tested for COVID-19. Yet such racial discrimina-
tion seems in direct violation of various title clauses of the 1964
Civil Rights Act.
That law makes it clear that no public agency can use race to
deny “equal utilization of any public facility which is owned, oper-
ated, or managed by or on behalf of any State or subdivision there-
of.” Who is behind the new racial discrimination?
In summer 2020, many local- and state-mandated quarantines and
bans on public assemblies were simply ignored with impunity—if
demonstrators were associated with Black Lives Matter or protesting
the police.
Currently, the Biden administration is also flagrantly embracing
the neo-Confederate idea of nullifying federal law.
The Biden administration has allowed nearly 2 million foreign
nationals to enter the United States illegally across the southern
border—in hopes they will soon be loyal constituents.
The administration has not asked illegal entrants either to be
tested for or vaccinated against COVID-19. Yet all U.S. citizens in
the military and employed by the federal government are threatened
with dismissal if they fail to become vaccinated.
Such selective exemption of lawbreaking non-U.S. citizens, but
not millions of U.S. citizens, seems in conflict with the equal pro-
tection clause of the 14th Amendment.
After entering the United States illegally, millions of immi-
grants are protected by some 550 “sanctuary city” jurisdictions.
These revolutionary areas all brazenly nullify immigration law by
refusing to allow federal immigration authorities to deport illegal
immigrant lawbreakers.
At various times in our nation’s history—1832, 1861-65, and
1961-63—America was either racked by internal violence or fought a
civil war over similar state nullification of federal laws.
In the last five years, we have indeed seen many internal
threats to democracy.
Hillary Clinton hired a foreign national to concoct a dossier of
dirt against her presidential opponent. She disguised her own role
by projecting her efforts to use Russian sources onto Trump.
She used her contacts in government and media to seed the dossier to
create a national hysteria about “Russian collusion.” Clinton urged
Biden not to accept the 2020 result if he lost, and herself claimed
Trump was not a legitimately elected president.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has violated laws
governing the chain of command. Some retired officers violated Arti-
cle 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by slandering their
commander in chief. Others publicly were on record calling for the
military to intervene to remove an elected president.
Some of the nation’s top officials in the FBI and intelligence
committee have misled or lied under oath either to federal investi-
gators or the U.S. Congress, again, mostly with impunity.
All these sustained revolutionary activities were justified as
necessary to achieve the supposedly noble ends of removing Trump.
The result is Third World-like jurisprudence in America aimed
at rewarding friends and punishing enemies, masked by service to
social justice.
We are in a dangerous revolutionary cycle. But the threat is
not so much from loud, buffoonish, one-day rioters on Jan. 6. Such
clownish characters did not for 120 days loot, burn, attack court-
houses and police precincts, cause over 30 deaths, injure 2,000
policemen, and destroy at least $2 billion in property—all under
the banner of revolutionary justice.
Even more ominously, stone-cold sober elites are systematically
waging an insidious revolution in the shadows that seeks to disman-
tle America’s institutions and the rule of law as we have known
them.
This was so well written and factual, I had to share.
Pray for the US and for the strength of those holding back the
evil that is trying to destroy our nation.
Conservatively,
John
Conservativelyjohn.com 