Laws are for the Little People ... Mark Steyn

Steyn Online ^ | 19 Oct 2016 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Just ahead of tonight's final debate (from which I shall be several thousand miles away):

As I've said for years - on radio, TV and in print - for me the overriding issue in American politics is the corruption. In the Obama era, we have seen the remorseless merging of the party and the state - in the IRS, in the Justice Department and elsewhere. Whatever one feels about, say, Scandinavia, they at least come to their statism and socialism more or less honestly. Not so the United States.

It's bad enough that Democrats aren't agitated about this corruption - but then it works to their advantage. Slightly more mysterious is why so many of my friends on the right aren't incensed by it. For months, conservative commentators assured us that, when it comes to straight arrows, no arrow is straighter than FBI honcho James Comey - non-partisan, career public servant, will follow the evidence whereso'er it leads; why, "no one in law enforcement" is "more capable of navigating through a political maelstrom" and any attempts to politicize the outcome will ensure that "Comey will resign in protest, and other high-level FBI officials could follow him out the door".

All bollocks. Bollocks on stilts. Like everything else the Clintons touch, Comey's FBI is hopelessly corrupted - and certainly more corrupt than J Edgar Hoover's FBI, at least in the sense that Hoover was independent enough not to get rolled. The revelations of what happened reveal Comey to be a hack and a squish: he offered immunity to Hillary's aides not to facilitate his investigation but to obstruct any further investigation; he allowed witnesses to Hillary's crimes to serve as her "lawyers"; and he physically destroyed the evidence - that is, the laptops.

[Rummyfan]

So, to add to the corrupt revenue agency and the corrupt justice department, we now have a corrupt national law enforcement agency and a corrupt foreign ministry - willing, indeed, to subordinate national security and its own diplomatic policy to the personal needs of Hillary Clinton. Needless to say, if you get your news from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc, etc, you will be entirely unaware of all this. Which is the way they plan on operating for the next eight years.

[Rummyfan]

Something has gone terribly wrong with the Republican party, and it has nothing to do with the flaws of Donald Trump. Something like his tone and message would have to be invented if he did not exist. None of the other 16 primary candidates — the great majority of whom had far greater political expertise, more even temperaments, and more knowledge of issues than did Trump — shared Trump's sense of outrage — or his ability to convey it — over what was wrong: The lives and concerns of the Republican establishment in the media and government no longer resembled those of half their supporters.

[Rummyfan]

Trump, like other philosophically erratic politicians from Denmark to Greece, has tapped into a very basic strain of cultural conservatism: the question of how far First World peoples are willing to go in order to extinguish their futures on the altar of "diversity".

As Ann Coulter's new book Adios, America! lays out in remorseless detail, Kate Steinle is dead because the entire Democratic Party, two-thirds of the Republican Party and 100 per cent of the diseased federal-state-municipal bureaucracy prioritizes myths over reality. Yes, it's distressing to persons of taste and discrimination that the only person willing to address that reality is Donald Trump. But that's because he's not the reality-show freak here. The fake-o lame-o reality freakshow is the political pseudo-campaign being waged within the restraints demanded by the media and Macy's. So, if Donald Trump is the only guy willing to bust beyond those bounds, we owe him a debt of gratitude. If, as Karl Rove proposes, other candidates are able to talk about the subject in a more "inclusive" way, so be it. But, if "inclusive" is code for not addressing it at all, nuts to that.

[stayathomemom]

None of the other 16 primary candidates — the great majority of whom had far greater political expertise, more even temperaments, and more knowledge of issues than did Trump — shared Trump's sense of outrage — or his ability to convey it — over what was wrong...

Yay, Mark!

[Rummyfan]

The left is serious about power, and they don't waste time. The idea that the most personally corrupt candidate in modern American history will govern as some sort of benign moderate centrist placeholder until the wankers who thought Jeb Bush was a superstar shoo-in come up with their next inspiration is utterly preposterous.

[VRW Conspirator]

From the article:...the American people would be electing someone who, not yet in office, is already above the law, and way beyond it... and Hillary and her cronies would be entirely justified in treating such an electorate with utter contempt...Where do you think we're gonna be after eight years of that?

Thank you for asking, Mark. Her reign will be nothing short of bloody. Her legacy will be known as the inflection point of sane civility, patriotic duty, positive vision and rule of law that was once known as America. There will be blood.

[Peter ODonnell]

The strain of lies, hypocrisy and dangerous misadventure has reached a breaking point. Or at least, it should have done, if it hasn’t, then elites will continue to double down on their revolutionary (and destructive) agenda, until they find they can’t get away with any more.

When that happens, they will have to decide whether to hide in plain sight, face the wrath or maybe go after most of us and stop pretending they are anything other than communists.

I’ve found it dangerous personally to go down the road of calling communists fascists, the differences are subtle enough but it leads to sloppy thinking and unpredictable consequences. People have learned (perhaps subconsciously) that you can always call any perceived foe a fascist, but if you call them a communist (and they are somewhat that way) then it unleashes a powerful counter-reaction because they don’t like being called on that.

Minor differences, perhaps, but in the coming days, when charges of “fascism” will be hurled in both directions, it’s important to realize that actually there are no fascists, just freedom fighters and communists. The only force that vaguely resembles fascism is Islamic fundamentalism and really, it’s a new and different form of totalitarian thought. Such actual fascists as really exist in our society are puny and weak poseurs who have some sort of nostalgic fondness for the ways of Adolf Hitler. They don’t really factor into what’s going on around us now.

[Little Bill]

The County Rep Comm. of which I am an associate member, in NH, is reviled by the State Comm. for being to Conservative and out of touch with trends.

[Yaelle]

Probably already quoted the genius Steyn line below but I haven't read the thread yet.

A small but telling point: Wikileaks' Julian Assange has lived in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for over four years. But not until he leaked against Hillary was his Internet cut off. Hillary, out of office, has a swifter and more ruthless global reach than Hillary in office on the night of Benghazi.

[Valentine Michael Smith]

I’ve said fpr a good bit thay the democrats are Communists. They are not “liberals”. Liberal is way too soft a term.

[Valentine Michael Smith]

I’ve said fpr a good bit thay the democrats are Communists. They are not “liberals”. Liberal is way too soft a term.

[Billthedrill]

The idea that the most personally corrupt candidate in modern American history will govern as some sort of benign moderate centrist placeholder until the wankers who thought Jeb Bush was a superstar shoo-in come up with their next inspiration is utterly preposterous.

Yes, we have real problems with this one. It is no exaggeration to describe the current Democrat offering as a criminal class because that is very literally what they are, and they have class interests that are in direct opposition to those of their country. Our foreign policy is for sale. Our natural resources are for sale. Every mechanism for oversight and control over this criminal activity has been systematically corrupted itself.

What Coleridge termed the clerisy has been corrupted as well, tempted by the idea that they can re-mold the country without the inconvenience of Constitutional limitation if they just turn their eyes away from the usurpation of power that enables it. That is a Devil's bargain and it comes at a Devil's price.

There are two elements here intermixed into a toxic brew: those who hate the country and wish it destroyed or radically altered, and those who stand to get rich during the process. These are not mutually exclusive. When we see a bloated wastrel such as Al Gore demanding ecological austerity from everyone else we see a perfect example of that admixture. The country either is going to experience a house-cleaning or turn into a brothel in the next four years. It's about an even bet at the moment. That alone speaks sad volumes.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Rusty0604]

As always, he hits the nail on the head.

[Catmom]

I’m just hoping for the best while mentally steeling myself for the worst.

I’ve already had eight years of practice with this, though. I pray my strength holds out.

[Yaelle]

Steyn is not a Trump fan but he NAILS our situation and what has to be done.

He does say that a nation who would elect someone already as proven criminal as Hillary Clinton deserves to lose our freedom. Many of us get this. Our true enemy is not the cartoon criminal Hillary who seems to be evil right to her core like a Snidely Whiplash, but the half of us who shrug their shoulders, says “Everybody does that,” and vote for Hillary because she symbolizes something good to them - experienced, seasoned, a woman, a democrat, etc. These fellow Americans would have to have such suspended disbelief as to believe everything said on tv news.

[Qiviut]

I don’t think we’ll make it 8 years .... we’ll be in a civil shooting war before then.

[higgmeister]

In any society, the chief magistrate's first duty is to uphold the law, and throughout human history his easiest temptation, once in office, has been to regard himself as above it. In this case, the American people would be electing someone who, not yet in office, is already above the law, and way beyond it. That would be an extraordinary act, and Hillary and her cronies would be entirely justified in treating such an electorate with utter contempt.

[Aetius]

It’s one of the best anti-Hillary, and therefore pro-Trump columns I’ve read. And I think he’s right that Trump’s rise could have been halted if any of the other (credible) candidates had come at immigration in a manner outside of the parameters set by the Left/media.