History lesson: Radicals eventually will need the norms and safeguards they’ve gleefully destroyed.
“...the House impeachment proceedings started out in the House basement; they were marked by unethical collusion with the so-called whistleblower to jump-start the proceedings; they relied on selective leaks and were not symmetrical in the summoning of witnesses from both sides;
... and the proceedings were initially outsourced to Adam Schiff’s intelligence committee, by design, because of its greater power of secrecy, rather than the more appropriate House Judiciary Committee.
In essence, the House impeachers are now furious that the Republican Senate might prove as partisan in exonerating Trump as the House was in impeaching him.
For short-term gain, radical Democrats have now institutionalized the abnormal on the expectation that they themselves will never seek refuge in the customs and norms they have abolished.
This is odd, given the lesson of the “nuclear option” on judges set in motion by former Senate majority leader Harry Reid:
When in power, Reid destroyed the judicial filibuster, only to have this decision come back to haunt Democrats when they were in the minority and suddenly unable to stop majority-vote confirmations of a slew of conservative judges.
So far, the Democrats have redefined impeachment as a no-confidence partisan vote of the opposition upon gaining control of the House, — with no need for a special counsel’s findings, public support, bipartisan consensus, or specific crimes as outlined in the Constitution.
The Left has recalibrated the FISA courts as political agencies that apparently will grant the FBI and DOJ whatever they wish — if they can, in unspoken fashion, agree on a common political threat of the sort that Donald Trump apparently represents.
There is little left to the idea of a disinterested whistleblower. From now on, they will be insider moles, leftovers from prior admins who pop up to work with congressional opposition in leaking and misrepresenting administration communications to help impeach a president.
The Left has no awareness that under their new protocols, Barack Obama would have been more exposed to impeachment writs than Trump is today, that the next admin mole as a whistleblower might seek to take out a Dem president...
... and that politicized FISA courts might just as easily fast-track the surveilling of progressive campaign aides.
The ease with which he was speedily appointed, the hyper-partisanship of his all-star, hunter-killer legal “dream team” and the unlimited time and budget given Mueller — all will likely serve as a model when the next Dem president does an Obama-like hot-mic quid pro quo...
weaponizes the IRS, orchestrates an illegal prisoner swap, stonewalls Congress over a scandal such as Fast and Furious, or bypasses the treaty-ratification rights of the U.S. Senate.
Many of the current Democratic candidates have called for a court-packing scheme of increasing the Supreme Court to 15 justices in order to nullify the Trump appointees. Most also want to abolish the Electoral College.
And leftist activists increasingly rail about the unfairness of the make-up of the Senate and the supposedly ossified idea that every state, however, small, has two senators.
Apparently, they believe that a Democrat will never lose the popular vote and win the Electoral College.
Apparently, they believe that a Democrat will never lose the popular vote and win the Electoral College.
And they don’t care that the solid-blue status of California, Illinois, and New York give any Democratic candidate an assured 84 electoral votes of the necessary 270 before a campaign even begins.
And they forget that they once gained control of the U.S. Senate by flipping formerly small-population red states blue, such as New Mexico and Nevada.
We are now in a revolutionary cycle in which existing norms are considered obstacles to equality-of-result politics.
We are now in a revolutionary cycle in which existing norms are considered obstacles to equality-of-result politics.
The Left believes that they will never need the institutions that they are distorting, but they will soon be the first to rue their own folly.”
