Standing up to tyranny

Finally, The People have said "Enough!"

If you didn't see Jim Kallinger's Friday Letter guest post last week, it's worth the visit (“Opportunity and obligation,” Oct. 29). The importance of Jim's message comes into even sharper focus now in light of this week's elections. It may be the most important Friday Letter of the year.

(I can hear the cheap shots now. Of course it's the most important, Combs, because you didn't write it.) Whatever.

The Magdeburg Confession of 1550, Kallinger explained, “teaches that when a higher magistrate has become an incurable tyrant (defined within a very limited set of criteria such as the U.S. Constitution), he has abdicated his claim to legitimacy and the lesser magistrate may interpose on behalf of its constituency.”

This is exactly what happened Tuesday when Virginians stood up to tyrannical school boards by rejecting the would-be governor who supported them. Though liberal media like Politico and the New York Times tried to explain it otherwise, the tyranny imposed by school boards in Loudoun County and other Virginia school districts had become intolerable. The People – the lesser magistrate – won.

By a plurality of 79,115 votes, Virginia voters accepted Thomas Jefferson's advice that “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.” It was a silent, peaceful rebellion against an out-of-control government-school politburo that is poisoning young minds with some of the most vile America-hating brainwashing imaginable – that all white people are racists, that this country was founded only to protect slavery, that black people can't succeed in this nation run by white supremacists, that government offers their only chance of survival.

The People v. Tyranny. The jury finds for the plaintiffs.

Politico correctly noted that Democrat Terry McAuliffe erred in running against Trump and the Texas abortion law, while Glenn Youngkin ran on Virginia education policy. But Politico missed the mark in blaming everything on Joe Biden's failure to push through his big spending agenda.

See how parents fared in other school board elections in this report at Just the News.

In its Morning Briefing on Wednesday, the New York Times allowed the possibility that Virginians were fed up with anti-white Critical Race Theory but said the main cause of its party's loss “appears to be the pandemic, which has disrupted everyday life and the global economy for longer than many people expected.” At least the Times didn't blame global warming.

On Wednesday, the entire Democrat-Media alliance – outside its propagandists at MSNBC and CNN who blamed Trump and racism – was trying to figure out what went wrong. “Progressive Democrats can make a credible case that they aren’t the problem. Bernie Sanders isn’t the president. Joe Biden is,” a Wednesday morning analysis at Politico noted.

And then Politico suggested that its party lost because of poor messaging. Actually, its message was clear, and voters knew it: The government is in charge of your children and will decide what to drum into their impressionable heads. Parents have no say in the matter. “I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” McAuliffe said at the final debate, and that was the end of him.

Which leads us to the point of this essay, what conservatives must learn from Tuesday: They have the power to drive policy. Lead, and the politicians will follow. They can help their state and local lawmakers re-assert our 10th Amendment rights at the expense of a tyrannical, authoritative and metastasizing federal government. The closer to home a legislative body is, the better it works, the better it represents the interests of the people.

I used to ask my adult-aged college students to name their state representative and senator. Almost none could. But this is where we should pay attention. My state representative openly campaigns to a small fringe constituency of highly vocal gay and lesbian activists, her big issue the need to repeal all requirements for voting, and yet she will head into her third election next year without serious opposition. Our local Republican Party doesn't even answer inquiries on who might challenge her.

We get wrapped up in national politics – as we should – but at the expense of attention to the home front. Thanks to parents in Loudoun County, Vir., and other places, we must learn that we have the ability to slay this monster. It starts in our own cities and states.

“On a macro level, Republicans can find elements of Tuesday's elections to give hope that 2022 can bring meaningful change,” says a Republican member of the Florida House, who asked not to be identified. “However, as former Speaker Tip O'Neil used to say, all politics is local.” He said results for conservative candidates (even in non-partisan races) in his district were mixed, owing mostly to how campaigns were run and not related to national issues.

Election fraud update

The Racine County Sheriff's Office reported that the Wisconsin Election Commission ordered municipalities to violate state election law by mailing absentee ballots to nursing home patients. The law requires them to deliver ballots by Special Voting Deputy process servers. Biden's reported margin in Wisconsin was 20,682 votes, Margot Cleveland reports at The Federalist. . .

The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed suit against Michigan's secretary of state alleging that 25,975 potentially deceased voters remain on the registration rolls. The list includes 334 names that were registered after their death dates, Just the News reports.

Short takes on the news

Soros-funded anti-police Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner wins a second term with 69% of the vote. “It's a movement that has been led by Black and brown and broke people, and progressives,” Krasner said in his victory statement. As a defense attorney, Krasner filed 75 lawsuits against the Philadelphia police. He says “policing and prosecution are both systematically racist“ and calls poverty and crime consequences of “mass incarceration.” He is best known for dropping or reducing murder charges. Philadelphia has the highest murder rate in the country. . .

A Russian citizen based in the U.S. was arrested for lying to the F.B.I. about his role in crafting the bogus Steele dossier that sought to overthrow Trump's presidency, Blaze Media reports. Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign had paid Christopher Steele to manufacture false claims of collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.

Quotes for today

“For 10 months, Donald Trump has been stripped of all his social network outlets. The progressive Silicon monopolies thought they had silenced the once omnipresent Trump. But their mussels had unintended consequences. The less Trump was on social media, the more the public remembered his good policies rather than his controversial tweets.” – Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness

“McAuliffe’s loss is a victory for all Americans. Why? Because it was a resounding rejection of efforts to divide us by race, the stripping of parental rights, and arrogant, deaf leaders. This benefits us all.” – Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, former Member of Congress, in a statement

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