Under siege by the enemy within
The Friday Letter / #499 / July 1, 2022
Edited with minor corrections at 9:45 a.m.
Our nation is under assault, in a state of anarchy and civil war, her defenses in chaotic disarray, without leadership, attacked by the enemy within. Consider these headlines from Monday:
“Socialist Reddit group posts home addresses of Supreme Court justices, discusses hunting them down at their churches. Tik Tok user hint at using pipe bombs in retaliation to Roe v. Wade reversal.” (The Blaze)
“Troubling calls for Clarence Thomas' assassination spread across social media after Roe Reversed” (Just the News)
“Justices Home Addresses Blasted on Social Media with Zero Consequences” (The Daily Signal)
“Far-Left District Attorneys Vow to Defy Pro-Life Laws” (American Greatness)
“Amazon employees demand action against SCOTUS abortion ruling: 'Amazon cannot let this decision go unanswered.'” (The Blaze)
“Whoopi Goldberg Delivers Blistering Warning to Clarence Thomas on 'The View': 'Better Hope They Don't Come for You'” (New York Post)
“Christian pregnancy center in Colorado vandalized and burned following Roe v. Wade reversal” (New York Post)
“ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC avoid mention of Jane's Revenge in coverage against pro-life groups.” Subhead: “Far-left 'Jane's Revenge' has vowed 'open season on pro-life pregnancy centers'” (Fox News website)
USA Today has another idea: “How about a 49-year campaign to repeal the Second Amendment, or reining in this court through impeachment, term limits and a mandatory retirement age?”
It is not possible for a logical person to argue with a straight face that the anarchy results only from incompetence, though incompetence is everywhere, from the White House and Joe Biden's entire cabinet including the grossly inept secretaries of Defense and State to the many governors and big-city machine Democrat mayors who are trying to run large, complex organizations without a scintilla of management or leadership experience. What makes this toxic is the band of highly-educated people – pretending to be very smart though most are not – whose goal is to wreck this society, bring it to its knees once and for all.
The list of individuals and freedom-snuffing bureaucracies includes the FBI, CIA, Justice Department, Homeland Security, IRS, even the entire military establishment – all political and enforcement arms of the Democrat Party. We have an Attorney General who has placed Supreme Court Justices and their families in great peril by refusing to enforce federal law against making threats or demonstrating outside their homes.
We have local prosecutors elected with millions of dollars from America-hating George Soros. These people hate America because America stands for freedom and self-reliance, antithetical to the Left's unquenchable thirst for power and control.
They employ useful idiots like Sandi Cortez and Pete Buttigieg to hawk their bill of goods, even though these would be the last people to have actual power in a totalitarian regime because of their clownish stupidity.
(As mayor of South Bend, Buttigieg couldn't run the bus company and now makes the absurd claim that U.S. highways are racist. As the clueless transportation secretary, he looks like a little boy in short pants with a propeller on his beanie.)
They would be left standing outside Nancy Pelosi's armed fortress looking in just like the rest of us. Oh, do they have a surprise coming.
The real power wielders, those who will survive the Left's takeover, will be people like Susan Rice and Ron Klain, John Kerry, Eric Holder, Valerie Jarrett, the Pritzker family, Michelle and Barack Obama, and Lady Macbeth herself, Hillary Clinton.
When you look at the current list of Republican U.S. Senators, you must realize that constitutional conservatives consist of a small minority, too weak to affect our nation's direction in any serious way.
From the 15 gun-grabbers and Chamber of Commerce apologists to those who constantly promise to “reach across the aisle” (reach meaning one way from the Republican to the Democrat side) in the spirit of compromise (compromise being to accept the Democrat position without contesting a single comma), Senate Republicans as a group are weak, unprincipled, and hopeless. Even if they miraculously gain a seat or two, they won't have the spine to remove Mitch McConnell as majority leader. With McConnell still in charge of the go-along, get-along Republicans, what difference does it make, anyhow, to borrow from Hillary?
The Republican governors bench has weaknesses as well: Asa Hutchinson, Doug Ducey, Eric Holcomb, Larry Hogan, Kristi Noem, all self-identified advocates of constitutionalism, all who have caved in some way to the non-negotiable Left. And Greg Abbott is not without criticism for his weak stand at the border.
Even Georgia conservatives will have to hold their nose to re-elect Brian Kemp, an otherwise competent governor who argues, ridiculously, that there was no voter fraud in his state's 2020 election. (But they don't have to re-elect Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. He is expendable.)
We can sit here and blame leftist politicians for this mess, but except for the presidency itself, pretty much all of them occupy office because voters put them there. As a class, voters are uninformed and unengaged, easily falling for the dishonest advertising of phony-named political action committees that assaults them through the idiot box, as they did in Alabama with the nomination of a Republican Senate candidate who will gladly conduct business as usual when she gets to Washington. How pathetic.
In retrospect, the only reason we can think of for Trump's endorsement of Katie Britt is that he figured she would win anyway with the millions that poured in from out of state PACs against principled but underfunded conservative Mo Brooks. That in itself is nauseating, and some Alabamians, I am told, are rethinking their support for the Trumpster. I hope I am wrong, because we need him as never before.
And Republican voters return, again and again, people like John Cornyn and Lindsey Graham to the Senate, falling for their promises to deliver principled constitutionalism and each time disappointed. Anyone like these two who support weakening of the Second Amendment – or any of the Bill of Rights – has no business representing the United States of America.
It is Cornyn, remember, who led the Republican charge to support the gun-grab bill, and now he gleefully tells Democrat leaders he will support them in an open-immigration, no-borders bill. What's next, packing the Supreme Court with leftist ideologues and ending the filibuster?
With an Attorney General who has politicized and weaponized the Department of Justice as a bureau undetatched from the White House itself, the nation will continue to slide into anarchy and tyranny until an opposition party stands and asserts itself. That won't happen with Mitch McConnell leading the U.S. Senate. We will continue to have a two-tiered criminal justice system, one for the anarchists, another for enemies of the State.
For another view on this, see Jack Kerwick's piece at American Greatness, “If Voting Republican Is the Answer, Why Has It Never Worked Before?”
Short takes on the news
Biden gets a huge victory in the Supreme Court with a 5-4 vote, along ideological lines, to end Trump's remain-in-Mexico policy for illegal immigrants. The opinion was no surprise, as Roberts usually rules against his nemesis Trump's policies and is frequently joined by Kavanaugh. They sided with Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan in the majority decision. The four conservatives – Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Barrett – dissented. . .
A California judge ordered the release of two men whose car contained 150,000 fentanyl pills when they were arrested at a traffic stop, the New York Post reports. The pills are said to be worth $750,000. Bill Melugin of Fox News identified the judge as Tulare County Court Commissioner Mikki Verissimo. . .
Biden will give $200 billion to developing countries for climate change and sex equity schemes. “The program aims to provide public and private financing for infrastructure projects in developing countries over the next five years but risks being as unrelated to infrastructure as Biden’s kindred domestic policy, where less than 10% actually went to traditional infrastructure projects,” Anthony Kim writes at The Daily Signal. . .
Great strides in crime fighting. The West Hollywood City Council has discovered how to reduce pick pocketing and other rising street crime in this ritzy town of 35,000: Defund the police. The city will lose four sheriff's deputies and replace them with “unarmed, blue-shirted security ambassadors,” a website called WeHoville reports. This move should improve efficiency in combating crime by eliminating one step in the arrest-book-release-and-never-prosecute system now employed in L.A. County prosecutor George Gascon's office. Now the blue shirts will merely shake their fingers at street thugs and ask them (politely) not to do that again, saving taxpayers a lot of money. . .
Cornell University's library removes a bust of Abraham Lincoln and a plaque of the Gettysburg Address after a student filed an anonymous complaint of “racism,” The College Fix reports. A Cornell PR flack explained that the display was only temporary anyway, installed in 2013 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's famous address. . .
State television PBS and its program sponsor, the U.S. Army, pick Black Lives Matter supporter and anti-white country singer Mickey Guyton to host its Independence Day concert, The Federalist reports. She wrote a song called “Black Like Me” that celebrates convicted felon George Floyd and denies that America is “the land of the free.” This should get those poor Southern farm boys breaking down recruiting office doors to enlist. . .
Of smirks and smarminess
In 1973 and beyond I was toiling on the Greenfield, Ind., Daily Reporter and working on a master's degree in journalism (third from the bottom above education and women's and black studies) when the UPI machine was churning out endless copy on Watergate (ironic, isn't it, that the wire machine paper was yellow). It was Helen Thomas all day long, it seems, along with regular “bombshell” reports. The punch tape and hard copy printouts flooded the newsroom floor. It was tough to get in another story edgewise. Four-bell, This-is-the-most-important-story-ever alarms were frequent, and usually ignored.
This went on for more than a year, story after story, day after day, with little new to emerge, and all we were trying to do was get the 4-H fair results right and keep our nose sharply tuned to local government shenanigans.
Watergate changed newspapering forever, from more or less honest attempts to report objective truth to all-out celebration of leftist theology. After Woodward and Bernstein became famous, owing more to the movie version of All the President's Men than to fair reporting in the Washington Post (partly a product of Bob Woodward's vivid imagination), every young would-be female “journalist” wanted to be the next to bring down a Republican President. This would be the biggest event since Moses promulgated the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai, comparable today to receiving the Medal of Honor or winning Best of Show at the Gay Pride parade.
They've been at it ever since.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am not a psychologist or body language expert. But I couldn't help being struck by the smug look on Cassidy Hutchinson's face – much like Carl Cameron used to flash with his “Look at me, isn't it great to see me again?” smirk on Fox News – when she testified at the House show trial “investigating” the occurrence of Jan. 6, 2021.
Here is a 25-year-old woman-child, decades from acquiring wisdom, probably miffed that she didn't get the job she had hoped for in Trump's post-presidency office. For his part, Trump says he doesn't even know who she is. But you can't really blame her, she a member of the all-about-me generation.
Watch the tapes a few times, and you will notice that she had difficulty maintaining eye contact with the committee actors, often a sign that someone is lying. But it's obvious that she enjoyed the limelight when she repeated a third-hand accusation that President Trump tried to grab the steering wheel from the back seat of the SUV he was riding in. Never mind that her story came apart like a Walmart suit, debunked by the very Secret Service agents she claimed to be quoting.
We can't pretend to know the full story, but the satirical Babylon Bee has the best headline we've seen, so we'll go with it and leave it there:
“Jan. 6 Committee Says Cassidy Hutchinson Told Them That She Heard Mark Meadows Say That A Secret Service Agent’s Friend’s Cousin’s Husband Once Heard That One Of Trump’s Other Aides Said She Thinks She Heard Him Say He Wanted To 'Do An Insurrection'”
All is not lost for young Miss Hutchinson, of course. She can look forward to a million-dollar book deal from Simon & Schuster, lots of short-term but forgettable celebrity status, maybe even her own show on MSNBC. Life is good.
Recommended reading
“Durham Played You for a Fool!”
Emerald Robinson at The Right Way
“New York's Unconstitutional Gun Law Was Written by a Notorious, Corrupt Thug”
David Harsanyi at The Federalist