Actually, we do…kind of. At this point, the die has been cast…the milk has been spilt…the Rubicon has been crossed. It might as well get as bad as it can get, as fast as it can get, because that’s probably the only way to shock people out of their complacency. Our republic currently consists of a largely failed elite and a general public amusing itself to death.

Let me show my age by using a Clinton analogy. If Bill had immediately admitted he got serviced by a White House intern in the Oval Office, he probably would have had to either resign or be removed. The outrage and disgust would have been great enough to stampede Democrats into abandoning him. So Clinton lied and he stonewalled and he waged a political war against the investigation into him. And even though all of that behavior, by every moral and intellectual standard, only increased his level of wrongdoing, it gave Democrats, the media, and the political establishment enough time to “get used” to Clinton’s misdeeds and feel comfortable excusing them.

Or you can look at David French, who is repeatedly roasted for his 2019 description of Drag Queen Story Hour at public libraries as “one of the blessings of liberty.” You think David French says that in 2009 or 1999, when his liberal peers would still have been a little creeped out by the idea? Hell, no. But 2019 David French knows EXACTLY what’s acceptable in his social circle today.

Mike

Reluctantly, I have to agree with Mike as to McCarthy’s refusal to stand forthright for the truth. He’s simply unwilling to go the last mile and that is where character is revealed.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/09/twitter-sues-texas-ag-ken-paxton-for-investigating-their-censorship-practices-watch-this-one-closely-it-appears-twitter-is-leveraging-their-alliance-with-fbi/

When I came back from Poland in 2000 Bill O’Reilly was rocking it. He said something that has stayed with me. “The Rich and Powerful protect their own.” Then he got married and lazy and started his “Killing series” .

Both sides protect their own until they lose their utility or are a threat to the current ruling cabal. Sorry Gavin and Andrew. Your usefulness has come to an end.

I used to have a great deal of respect for Andrew McCarthy. But while he may not be complicit in the nefarious actions of the past 4 years, he has certainly been an apologist for the people committing those actions. I hear he has even owned up to that. I wouldn’t know because I stopped taking him seriously a while ago.

He stepped up right away to defend the FBI and the law enforcement community when the whole Trump mess started. Yes, he deserves some credit for publicly admitting he was wrong but has that acknowledgement of error resulted in any appreciable change in his thinking or public rhetoric?

I just went to NRO and found THIS nonsense:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/supreme-court-clears-way-for-new-york-das-investigation-of-trump/

McCarthy refers to the Manhattan DA’s investigation of Trump as “serious” and, even as he specifically details how it began with the alleged Stormy Daniels’ payoff and then expanded into Trump’s “real-estate enterprise for potential bank, tax, and insurance fraud,” never once even suggests the investigation might be motivated by something more than the Manhattan DA’s commitment to law and order.

To me, that says McCarthy has learned NOTHING and his public mea culpa was cosmetic at best.

Mike

McCarthy has some bad instincts, but he’s not implicated in any of this. Barr, Durham, and Huber are.

These fools play at being establishmentarians but failed even at that because when it came time to protect their precious establishment from internal enemies, they chose to care more about their own personal comfort and careers.

Mike