Pardonnez Trump
Yet another thing that, though eminently desirable and righteous, just ain’t gonna happen.
Then-President Gerald Ford’s explanation of the Nixon pardon sound prophetic today: “The tranquility to which this nation has been restored by the events of recent weeks could be irreparably lost by the prospects of bringing to trial a former President of the United States.” President Joe Biden must follow Ford’s example and pardon his predecessor so that the country can move on.
And if he doesn’t, Biden runs the serious risk that events spiral out of control and violence is instigated. Trying to put a former president and your leading opponent in the next election in federal prison is a serious business that could literally tear the country apart.
In two earlier articles in these pages, I counseled that “those pushing divisive issues should try to put them in perspective by asking whether or not they really think they’re important enough to risk a national breakup over them,” and I expressed my “hope that both sides will keep their grievances in perspective and remember that it is only ‘a Republic’ if we can keep it. Or in the lingo that millennials understand, ‘Democracy..means sharing a country with ass–les you can’t stand.’”
Since I wrote those words — in 2021 and 2019, respectively — things have only gotten worse. I understand that about half the country hates Donald Trump and truly believes that his actions in challenging the 2020 election amounted to an “insurrection.” But before pushing for punishment, they should consider carefully the potential consequences for the country of a trial, conviction, and sentencing of the former president. I fear that the part of the country that still loves Trump will not stand idly by and watch their hero be taken off to jail in handcuffs. The reaction to a conviction and sentencing could make Jan. 6 look like child’s play.
What you ought to fear much more is that "the part of the country that still loves Trump…” will instead not do a damned thing more than sit on its fat ass and complain on the Innarnuts about it. As dreadful a prospect as civil war and violent, bloody revolution no doubt are, the dissolute and degraded complacency that would render Real Americans passively inert whilst the Neo-Marxist mob subjugates them and destroys the very concept of Law And Order itself will bring about a nightmare far more iniquitous and enduring than even civil war ever could.
To be clear, I am not advocating violence or any other form of resistance; I am merely predicting what I fear may occur and urging those with the ability to prevent chaos to act wisely to pull us back from the precipice.
It is to laugh. As if there has, for years if not decades now, been the slightest sign that they’re even capable of acting wisely, or that they understand what “acting wisely” might consist of, or have any regard for that at all.
I do understand that some pundits think that Biden and his political advisers want Trump to be the Republican nominee in 2024 because they think that he will be the easiest candidate for them to defeat. That assumes, however, that law and order will prevail and that there will be an election in 2024.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Yet again I say: there will be no cancellation of the '24 “elections,” nor of any others. Sweet jumpin’ Jesus, why on Earth would they? When those sham “elections” are still working brilliantly for them, what could they possibly gain by doing away with them, thus exposing once and for all the true nature of the system under which we are not governed but ruled? They might as well just shoot themselves in the face and have done with it.
Domestic violence — like wars that no one desires — occurs when actions and counteractions escalate out of control in ways that neither side anticipated. Those with the power — and the responsibility — to prevent a second American civil war should consider how those who do not share their hatred of Donald Trump may react if they continue down the present course of trying to put him in jail.
Granted, there’s no one scenario more likely than any other, but several could end in Americans turning their guns on each other. It is important to consider not only what is likely to happen but also plausible worst-case scenarios. Is even a 5 percent chance of violence really worth taking when the future of our country is at stake?
Depends. Is even a 5 percent chance of violence really NOT worth taking when, as now, it otherwise means submitting to tyranny and oppression at the hands of “people” who would—as they themselves have grown bold enough to declare flatly, explicitly, and openly of late—much prefer killing you to simply leaving you the fuck alone? Forbid it, almighty God! As John Stuart Mill so famously put it:
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
Exactly, precisely so. If it is to be one or the other, as it increasingly appears it must, then liberty-oriented people are left with only the one option. If the Left wishes to force war upon Real Americans, as it increasingly appears they do, then let them get their wish—in fullest measure, all they want of it and then some, until they’re so sick of it the mere word leaves them soaking their Underoos in abject horror.
(Via Sarah Hoyt)