I hoped a unanimous Supreme Court decision on Trump would stop the hand-wringing. But progressives' unhinged responses started flowing immediately.
www.usatoday.com
USA Today generally follows the market. When people are buying Left news, they swing left. They are publishing more Right news these days. That says something.
Slate and MSN cannot be described as followers of the Right. Their position says something.
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The issue debated in this thread is the deep fracture in US politics which, in my opinion, has bled into politics across the English speaking world. That has resulted in a fracture that can be exploited by Xi, Putin whoever the non-entity running Iran today is.
Nobody, in my view, is more responsible for developing that fracture than Marc Elias. He is a Democrat activist and long time associate of Clinton and the Podestas. And, through the Podestas tied to Kerry, Ardern and Trudeau.
en.wikipedia.org
Most recently Elias was involved as a witness in a John Durham trial in Washington. Durham was prosecuting a pro-Trump case in a DC courthouse. Elias appeared for the defense. Durham lost the case on a jury verdict.
Today Elias tweeted about the DC primaries.
This was picked up in this article
'In a city of 700,000, Donald Trump got 676 votes... A tough jury pool,' Elias said, referencing the Biden DOJ's lawfare against Trump in DC.
thefederalist.com
The relevant quotation is this:
That, in my opinion, speaks loudly and broadly to the fracture.
DC is not America, however much it wants to be. Equally London is not the UK and Ottawa is not Canada. I would argue the same for every self-proclaimed Capital on the planet.
Elias knows that DC is enemy territory as far as Trump is concerned. And Trump is the enemy as far as DC is concerned. But it is not just Trump that is DC's problem. DC has a problem with Republicans generally. Elias gloats about Trump only getting the support of 1 in 1000 DC residents. But even Niki Haley, the Democrat candidate for the Republicans, only got the support of 2 in 1000 DC residents. All told, Haley, Trump, DeSantis and the rest of the Republicans voters accounted for about 3 of 1000 DC residents. And a good chunk of those would likely vote for the Democrats come the election.
Not only does that make it difficult for Trump to get elected in DC, it makes it difficult for Trump, or any Republican to work in DC. It makes it difficult to find a jury or a judge in DC that are not Democratically inclined which makes it difficult for any Republican to accept the result of any DC trial if it pertains to a Republican cause.
We can talk about the rule of law until the cows come home but ultimately everything relies on trust. Trust is the only legitimacy available to anything. If people do not trust the people making the decisions that influence their lives then the institutions that those decision makers inhabit are untrustworthy and lack legitimacy.
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If people see you winning all the time, at their expense, then it makes it a whole lot harder for them to shake hands and wait for the next game.
They are more inclined to take their ball and go home and leave you to revel in how smart you are.
If you are lucky they will ignore you.