Another day, another round of normiecon pearl-clutching about the Bad Orange Man. As ever, it’s a case of ‘follow the Marge Simpson rule’: whatever the normiecons say, the opposite is likely true. More accurately, they’ve correctly diagnosed the malady, but got the cause and the symptoms completely arse-about. Mostly because they’re so deranged by their hatred of that awful parvenu in the White House that they can’t see straight.
For a mob who are forever blatherskiting about ‘the lessons of history’, they seem strangely reluctant to learn them themselves.
Here’s a lesson for them: a president who completely suspended not just constitutional rights but one of the most ancient legal principles of Western law. A president who arrested one-third of the legislature of an entire state, including a sitting member of Congress – not for anything they’d actually done, but from fear and suspicion of what they might do.
Today, that president is widely ranked as America’s greatest – for saving the United States.
As it happens, the often second-ranked president is one who invoked the Alien Enemies Act in order to summarily imprison hundreds of thousands of American citizens in concentration camps and severely restrict the rights of even more.
Those hero presidents are, of course, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
So, spare me the fits of the vapours from the fainting aunt normiecons.
I mean, how could anyone write a sentence like this and not see where the problem lies?
Since January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated, 142 cases have been brought against the new administration – and additional cases are being launched every day.
A sensible observer would conclude that this is exactly what it looks like: lawfare. Anyone whose followed the past eight years of American politics would recognise it as a continuation of exactly the lawfare the president’s enemies waged through his first term of office and intensified in the interregnum. His political enemies have thrown dozens of spurious cases, including multiple failed impeachments, hoping that some will stick. Besides the connivance of a justice system that’s been openly weaponised since at least Barack Obama’s term, DAs funded by billionaire George Soros and hundreds of low-ranked judges appointed by Trump’s enemies, there’s been extraordinary levels of violence, including multiple attempts on the president’s life.
All this adds up to a simple conclusion: the United States is in a state of nascent civil war. Right now, it’s at the ‘Bleeding Kansas’ stage, which preceded the Confederate succession and full-scale military conflict. For nearly a decade, political brinkmanship, election fraud and constant violence between rival ideological groups wracked Kansas. It’s now recognised as the curtain raiser to open civil war.
With not just open partisan lawfare and dozens of show trials, but daily terror attacks by the government’s opponents, how was it any different to what we see in America today?
The normiecons are taking the side of the insurrectionists against the president.
To make things worse, despite the White House’s denials, there are compelling reasons to believe Judge Boasberg’s order to pause the deportations was simply ignored.
As Trump was entirely right to do.
Boasberg has no jurisdiction and no right to try and override the president in this matter.
If nothing else, President Trump is entitled, as he has pointed out, to invoke the same Alien Enemies Act used by both Roosevelt and Harry Truman – Democrat heroes, both – which authorises the president to arrest, relocate or deport non-citizens. A mere district court judge has no legal right to try and overrule the president’s authority in this matter.
As journalist Tim Pool has pointed out, the ramifications of Boasberg’s extraordinary judicial activism are dire. If any piddling district judge can override the president’s dealings with a foreign state, how on earth would the United States ever prosecute its foreign policy? Who would enter into a treaty with the US, knowing that any unelected judge from Boondock, Nowhere, can simply strike it down on a whim?
What is clear, however, is that [the Trump administration] passionately believes the country is in the midst of a potentially fatal emergency, justifying whatever action it considers necessary. If Donald Trump continues to act on that basis, Americans may be about to discover whether their republic, which was the modern world’s first successful experiment with mass democracy, can and will remain blessed by “a government of laws, not of men” […]
Of course, it may be that the administration will back down. The almost farcical lengths to which it has gone in trying to explain its failure to implement Judge Boasberg’s injunction, and the somewhat more cautious wording of its most recent executive orders, suggests a growing awareness of the possible dangers.
Or, more likely, Trump will take his place alongside Lincoln as a saviour of the union against enemies foreign and domestic.
And the normiecons will be damned as blind fools who took the side of the tyranny of the mob.
