Post Trump’s Victory, There Can Be No Unity Without A
Reckoning
By: John Daniel Davidson / November 07, 2024
We can’t just say ‘Oh well we’re all Americans in the end’
and pretend that everything is okay. Everything is not okay. Back
in July after the first Trump assassination attempt, I wrote that
there can be no national unity, no burying the hatchet or cooling
the rhetoric with people who have been encouraging political
violence and pushing assassination prep for years. You can’t smack
someone's face with a hammer and then insist everyone calm down.
Trump’s election victory doesn’t change that. Those in the news
media who spent years calling Trump a fascist and comparing him to
Hitler, claiming he represents a threat to democracy and that he’ll
use his presidential powers to go after his enemies, should not be
forgiven. Their lies and nonstop propaganda should not be forgotten.
No one should ever take them seriously again. When they try to en-
gage the public square, they should either be ignored entirely or
met with a wall of mockery and derision. They are enemies of the
American people, whom they openly despise, and there can be no real
unity with them no matter what they might say in the future.
Going forward, it should be a mark of shame to be associated
with MSNBC, CBS News, and CNN. Same goes for The New York Times,
The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Politico. All the “prestige”
media outlets that perpetrated lies, distortions, and unhinged
rhetoric about Trump should lose so much credibility that their
reader and viewer bases collapse, advertisers abandon them, and
they get broken up and sold off for parts. If Laurene Powell Jobs
wants to run a vanity magazine for her own entertainment, fine.
But let’s not pretend it’s a serious place where serious journal-
ists work. We all know what it is now.
Legacy media outlets, the polling industry, the Democrat-fun-
ded nonprofits and the academics and activists who run them have
all now been exposed as cogs in a giant propaganda machine. Kamala
Harris was never ahead. She never had a chance of winning. There
was no “joy.” She wasn’t “brat.” She didn’t even win the Democrat
Party nomination, it was handed to her in a backroom deal. She
isn’t relatable or cool, she’s the most cringey and fake person
ever to run for president. Corporate media and the Democrats ran a
massive psy-op on the American people to make them believe some-
thing that wasn’t true. And it failed. We should never forget that
these people will say anything for the sake of power, so we should
never trust them again.
For the government officials and institutions who tried to
bankrupt and jail Trump, there should be more severe and formal
consequences. On Wednesday it was reported that the Justice Depart-
ment will be dismissing Special Counsel Jack Smith and dropping his
cases against Trump before Trump takes office. That’s great, but
Smith should not be allowed to simply walk away. He and everyone
else at Biden’s DOJ who was involved in these lawfare cases against
Trump needs to be investigated and held accountable for their
actions.
And of course the problem goes far beyond Smith. What the Jus-
tice Department and the FBI did to Trump was one of the most egre-
gious abuses of power in American history, and we shouldn’t just
shrug our shoulders at it because Trump won. These agencies need to
be dismantled entirely and re-built from scratch. The FBI in parti-
cular has shown itself to be an enemy of the American people and a
danger to the republic. Its director, Christopher Wray, should not
simply be allowed to resign. He should be removed and placed under
criminal investigation.
Same goes for New York Attorney General Leticia James, whose
lawfare against Trump is an ongoing scandal. James said on Wednes-
day that her office is preparing to “fight back” against the in-
coming Trump administration. She should be disbarred, at a minimum
for trying to bankrupt Trump with a bogus fraud case in which there
were no fraud victims.
Then there’s Liz Cheney, who in her role as vice chair of the
Jan. 6 Committee has been accused of inducing witness perjury,
destroying documents, and suppressing exonerating evidence. Cheney
posted what seemed like a message of conciliation on X Tuesday
night, saying we must accept the results of the election. But she
shouldn’t get off so easily either. Her role in the Jan. 6 Commit-
tee should be fully investigated and she should face criminal
charges if warranted.
The truth is, if Trump hadn’t won he’d be going to prison. For
supporting Trump, Elon Musk would have been targeted by the govern-
ment, bankrupted, and subjected to years of lawfare. The people who
howled loudest about Trump weaponizing the government against his
political opponents have spent years doing just that to Trump and
his associates.
The idea that we should just forget all that now for the sake
of unity is deeply misguided and naïve. If those responsible aren’t
held accountable, they will never stop trying to destroy their
enemies by any means they can. Before we ever achieve anything like
unity in America again, there must be a reckoning and there must be
justice. Without those things, the divisions in our country won’t
be able to heal.
Even with a reckoning, unity will be difficult. We can’t just
say “Oh well we’re all Americans in the end.” That won’t cut it.
The stark reality is that there are a large number of our country-
men who are no longer Americans in any meaningful sense. As Glenn
Ellmers has written, they “do not believe in, live by, or even like
the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined
America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we
should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but
they are something else.”
After those who broke the law are held accountable, and those
who lied are ostracized and ignored, we will still face the problem
of disunity and division among our people. We will still be two
nations occupying the same territory, with two irreconcilable
visions of what the country should be. We can’t paper over those
differences, and we shouldn’t.
To achieve real and lasting unity we’ll need a counter-revol-
ution in America, a re-founding of the country. That in turn will
require a conversion of the American people and a return to the
ideals, principles, and way of life that made our republic possible
in the first place.**
There should be a price paid by the Left before we unite and
cautiously work together.
Let God be our guide.
Conservatively,
John
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