The new anti-Trump Resistance …
… is all revved up and ready to go.
Actually, they never stopped. You almost have to admire their work ethic, even if you disagree with their goals and methods. The basic message: it’s possible that you peons may be able to elect Trump – although we’ll do our very best to prevent that – but he certainly won’t be allowed to govern. We know better than you, and when we say “our democracy” we mean ours, not yours.
Excerpt:
Opponents of Donald J. Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed. One group has hired a new auditor to withstand any attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash the Internal Revenue Service against them. Democratic-run state governments are even stockpiling abortion medication.
Only the left is allowed to sic the IRS on its opponents the conservatives. Nor did Trump do this during his first term, as far as I know. And Trump isn’t even against early abortions.
More:
A sprawling network of Democratic officials, progressive activists, watchdog groups and ex-Republicans has been taking extraordinary steps to prepare for a potential second Trump presidency, drawn together by the fear that Mr. Trump’s return to power would pose a grave threat not just to their agenda but to American democracy itself.
Talk about projection! And note, “democracy” is defined as the left wants to define it.
“Trump has made clear that he’ll disregard the law and test the limits of our system,” said Joanna Lydgate, the chief executive of States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan democracy watchdog organization that works with state officials in both parties. “What we’re staring down is extremely dark.”
Projection, projection, projection. I don’t even think most of them believe what they’re saying; it’s propaganda for the rest of us. But the ones who are far gone do believe it.
This one is unintentionally funny. Or maybe it’s intentionally funny and meant to taunt and mock anyone on the right:
If Mr. Trump returns to power, he is openly planning to impose radical changes — many with authoritarian overtones. Those plans include using the Justice Department to take revenge on his adversaries …
Anyone who’s been paying any attention to what’s been happening to Trump and his supporters at the hands of the DOJ and radical leftist state officials would recognize that they’re describing their own actions. And yet I believe that a significant number of people seem to be taken in by these accusations about Trump. And of course the left is afraid of payback, even though they don’t define it that way.
The leftists are the good guys, folks! We promise! I’ve highlighted the most important and most dangerous message, the one the left and many Democrats have been sending pretty much from the moment Trump declared his candidacy, and certainly from the moment he assumed the presidency:
Ian Bassin, the executive director of Protect Democracy, said the planning for how to resist such an agenda should not be seen as an ordinary policy dispute, but as an effort to defend fundamental aspects of American self-government “from an aspiring autocrat.”
“He is no normal candidate, this is no normal election, and these are no normal preparations for merely coming out on the wrong side of a national referendum on policy choices,” Mr. Bassin said.
Remember the calls for impeachment as soon as Trump took office? Here’s a memory refresher from around the time of Trump’s inauguration in 2017, in case you need one (emphasis mine):
Two civil rights groups trying to boot President Donald Trump from the nation’s highest office have launched an online campaign to get the brand new commander-in-chief impeached.
Their website, www.impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org, went live on Friday just as Trump was officially sworn in. It is run by two groups, Free Speech for People and RootsAction, which believe Trump’s possible conflicts of interest are grounds for his ouster, the Washington Post reports.
“The nation is now witnessing a massive corruption of the presidency, far worse than Watergate,” the campaign’s website says. “From the moment he assumed the office, President Donald Trump has been in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution. The President is not above the law. We will not allow President Trump to profit from the presidency at the expense of our democracy.” …
Earlier Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union said it has taken legal action to obtain government documents that may show Trump’s potential conflicts of interest.
And this is of the same vintage. The date is January 6, 2017:
The joint session of Congress is a legally required — and typically ceremonial — event to ratify the results of the presidential election. But members are permitted to challenge the validity of electoral votes, and for just the fourth time since 1877, they did so.
There was no expectation that the protests would succeed — backers acknowledged that the Republican-led House and Senate would never act to impede Trump’s imminent presidency. But it’s a continuation of efforts by Democrats to poke Trump in the eye before he takes office and undermine what his team has described as a “mandate” to govern. Democrats have routinely cited Trump’s 2.9 million-ballot popular vote loss to Hillary Clinton and pounced on Russian meddling in the election to undermine Trump’s victory.
Jackson Lee and her allies argued that widespread voter suppression in states won by Trump tarnished the results. They also pointed to research provided by a team of independent lawyers that found dozens of Republican electors were technically ineligible to serve. But their arguments failed to persuade their Senate colleagues to step forward.
But back to the present:
Many are also wary about discussing their contingency plans publicly, for fear of signaling a lack of confidence in President Biden’s campaign prospects. Their angst is intensified by Mr. Biden’s low approval numbers and by his persistent trailing of Mr. Trump in polls of the states that are likely to decide the election.
Interviews with more than 30 officials and leaders of organizations about their plans revealed a combination of acute exhaustion and acute anxiety. Activist groups that spent the four years of Mr. Trump’s presidency organizing mass protests and pursuing legal challenges, ultimately helping channel that energy into persuading voters to oust him from power in 2020, are now realizing with great dread they may have to resist him all over again.
Poor babes! I feel so sorry for them. And yet I believe they are fully up to the task, if the situation should arise.
The Democrats and their friends never tire of lying about everything.
Everything.
The only question is whether the voters will notice.
“Biden” and “his” media/infotech goons are spinning hard trying to ensure they don’t.
Example number ~+1:
“Biden’s Italian Strike;
“The ongoing U.S. policy of slow-walking munitions deliveries to Israel isn’t about Rafah”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/biden-italian-strike-israel-arms-shipments
H/T Powerline blog.
Key grafs:
As the planned demolition of both the USA and Israel proceeds apace…
TWANLOC. Those Who Are No Longer My Countrymen. Richard Fernandez called it years ago, but I don’t think even he imagined how wide and deep the schism would get. These people running around with their hair on fire about Trump being a tyrant are well and truly deranged. Apparently they forget that Trump was already president for four years and did nothing of the sort of thing they prognosticate he will do should he get another four years. They imagine themselves the saviors of “our democracy,” by which they mean the preservation of their positions of power and privilege. Sadly, they are also powerful and well-funded.
I can’t imagine Trump getting elected without the Republicans also winning both houses of Congress. Trump needs to have each and every political appointee ready to go on Inauguration Day. Put the Senate into recess and appoint everyone of the approximately 1,200 political appointees and get the Democrats out of the building by 5PM on Inauguration Day.
Then start pushing hard against the career “civil servants.” The Constitution gives the President “executive power,” which must include the power to hire and fire. The “deep state” needs to be dismantled and Trump needs to put them on the defensive on the first day of his second term. Defund departments. Move cabinet departments out of the Washington area. Look for warriors to head the armed services rather than politicians in uniform who believe that diversity and climate change–not winning wars–is their job.
Fool Trump once, shame on you. Fool him twice, shame on Trump. There is zero chance that the federal bureaucracy will implement his agenda. Get rid of them and hire people who will. The Democrats will whine and sue. Too bad. Fight them as aggressively as you need to.
Related:
The weaponization of the DHS appears to be complete…
“Biden DHS docs suggested Trump supporters, military and religious people are likely violent terror threats;
“Internal documents show that the board suggested ‘most of the Domestic Terrorism threat’ in the U.S. comes from Trump supporters”—
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-dhs-docs-suggested-trump-supporters-military-religious-people-likely-violent-terror-threats
+ Bonus:
“Israel Intent On Launching An Incursion Into Lebanon, Blinken Warns”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-intent-launching-incursion-lebanon-blinken-warns
Gosh, why might “Israel [Be] Intent On Launching An Incursion Into Lebanon”…?
(No doubt for the very same reason that Israel caused widespread starvation amongst Gazan citizens…?)
Another possible answer:
“How an all-out Israel war could rope in the US and other countries”—
https://nypost.com/2024/06/21/opinion/how-an-all-out-israel-war-could-rope-in-the-us-more-countries/
Of course there are Communists planning to do everything they can to disrupt a Trump presidency. A better reporter would dig into what the Socialist Republicans are gonna do to mess with Trump.
If anyone needs to be reminded why Biden must be defeated in November, here’s a two-minute video from X by James Woods that lists 25 things Biden and company have done.
https://x.com/realjameswoods/status/1803474277410431219?s=12&t=ZbXjuPG2OY8iQ_idsL6v7g
https://x.com/realjameswoods/status/1803474277410431219?s=12&t=ZbXjuPG2OY8iQ_idsL6v7g>
The anti-Trumpers fear him because they expect him to be as vicious as they are. Projection is their forte. We must be unwavering in our support for Trump, and the good he will do, as they have been for all the evil they have done.
the first to volunteer
https://statesuniteddemocracy.org/our-team/joanna-lydgate/
sounds like matthew Colangelo’s sister,
Trump made it very clear that he would not support a federal law restricting abortion on the All In podcast.
He said he delivered on what conservatives had asked for– returning the issue to the states. His personal position are the exceptions of rape, incest and physical life of the mother– but he made it clear it was up to the states to decide what restrictions they wanted on abortion.
In conversation with President Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blqIZGXWUpU
“TWANLOC” was the invention of one “Subotai,” a regular contributor to Wretchard’s blog, The Belmont Club. Wretchard was, is, the blog name of Richard Fernandez. I was also a regular contributor to Belmont Club, when Subotai coined the term.
Credit where credit is due.
Entirely political projection. Entirely.
Remember ‘Ackler’s Law’ (I didn’t create it but I’ll take the credit. ;-):
Whenever progressives accuse the right in general (and Trump in particular) of something nefarious it is because:
1. The left has done it or is doing it
Or
2. The left is planning to do it
Or
3. The left wishes it had thought of it first.
What we see here is what we on the right should be most concerned about. As I’ve said, barring a major October surprise or a switcheroo, I think Trump is likely to win, and win beyond the margin of fraud. But that’s just the beginning of the fight. I expect massive lawfare to attempt to prevent his election results from being certified and from Congress certifying the electoral college votes. I also expect protests 10 times the intensity of January 6 (with no consequences, of course)
But assuming all of the above fails and Trump is actually sworn in, I expect legal challenges and political protests to every single action he takes, 10, 20, 50 times more intense than in 2017. I expect investgstons fiftyfold more intense than Mueller’s
Furthermore, if Democrats flip the House (a very real possibility), I expect Trump will be impeached at least 10 times in his first year (I don’t mean mean 10 counts; I mean ten separate impeachments). I expect most of his cabinet (if any are even confirmed…need a GOP Senate for that) to be impeached multiple times, and to be harassed and hounded by legal and extra legal means.
This is the future we’re likely facing. Progressives will never allow an election to get in the way of protecting ‘our democracy’
Yes, Irish Otter, I also recall that TWANLOC (Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen) was originally coined by one brilliant immigrant from China (?) who goes by the name Subotai Bahadur.
If your predictions come true, Ackler, there will be no operating federal government. Without a functioning Defense Department, we will be easy pickings for those who wish us ill. Have any of these people ever thought about how they will like being at the tender mercies of the ChiComs?
All this talk of nullification of the election is madness. Those people are TWANLOCs and such threats are akin to sedition.
This is why republics eventually end. Power mad politicians ignore the basic laws and institutions that have held it together. Democracy is never far from failure when enough people forget how fragile it is. That’s where we are now.
I don’t dispute any of your analysis, J.J. Xi and Putin are delighted by our ever increasing dysfunction; of that, I have no doubt.
IrishOtter49 and Basherte1 : I have followed Wretchard for many, many years. His posts are always thought-provoking. Do either of you remember Walt, the poet?
JJ,
They don’t care.
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Basherte 1:
Subotoi is the American-born son of a Chinese-immigrant father (south China, if memory serves) and a Caucasian mother. He had a long career in law enforcement (I seem to recall he was with the Colorado State Police). He turns up now and again in the comments sections of various other conservative blogs. E.g., I’ve seen his posts at Instapundit and Powerline. And, yes, he is brilliant.
Cap’n Rusty:
I remember Walt and his poetry in his Belmont Club posts with great fondness. Any news on his condition and whereabouts? I seem to recall that he had very serious health issues.
BTW: At Belmont Club I posted as “Roughcoat.” I remember you — good to hear from you again!
IrishOtter49:
Subotai also has commented here on occasion.
Re: Subotai
As a fan of “Wretchard” (Richard Fernandez) I have read my share of Subotai. Apparently his nom de web alludes to:
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Subutai was a Mongol general and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. Subutai ultimately directed more than 20 campaigns, during which he conquered or overran more territory than any other commander in history as part of the expansion of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in human history. He often gained victory by means of sophisticated strategies and routinely coordinated movements of armies that operated hundreds of kilometers apart from each other…. Subutai is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history, the single greatest in Mongolian history…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subutai
It is different this time.
They are more concerned with keeping their power than with Trump coming after them. There aren’t any indications that Trump has a persecuting personality. He called the biased media names, but he was on the phone all the time with Maggie Haberman and Bob Woodward. What he does if he’s reelected certainly isn’t going to be worse than what was done to him after he was defeated.
Are Free Speech for People and RootsAction really “civil rights groups?” I don’t see that either group has had anything to do with “civil rights” as they are usually understood. It looks to me like they are just activist groups trying to tilt the political landscape in their direction and not being overly scrupulous about the methods they use.
Abraxas (7:51 pm) said:
“There aren’t any indications that Trump has a persecuting personality.”
Are you serious? A yuuuge aspect of Trump’s personality features mocking and bullying. If that combination isn’t persecuting, it’s a very close relative.
(Problem is, at this late date, it’s gotten to where that’s what may be needed.)
If that combination isn’t persecuting, it’s a very close relative.
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You mean John Oliver is a persecutor? Good to know.
In re Trump persecuting the Left and Democrats —
Persecuting is related to prosecuting, both of which the Democrats are bigly doing to Trump.
However, one can persecute without prosecuting (if lacking the institutional power, and prosecute without persecuting (as the ideal of Justice demands).
I have no problem with the Trump administration prosecuting every Leftist and Democrat in America who violated a current law, statute, or Executive Order (especially the ones the Left enacted to Get Conservatives).
Persecution, which is generally vindictive and IMO unethical (and forbidden in Christian theology), is unnecessary if that is done effectively, because there will be very few Democrat activists still out of jail.
One major problem for a Trump 2nd administration is that the angry left is funded by billionaire trust fund types like the WalMart heiress and Disney heiress. They may be beyond reach for retaliation. There are a lot of 501c3s that need to be defunded.
Are you serious? A yuuuge aspect of Trump’s personality features mocking and bullying. If that combination isn’t persecuting, it’s a very close relative.
By persecuting, I meant what Trump has been facing with the 4 indictments and the 90 or so counts. Maybe what I should have said is that he doesn’t have a vindictive personality. Trump likes to needle the media. He calls them names, but he can’t stop looking at the their papers and watching their TV programs and talking to selected reporters who don’t like him at all. Trump doesn’t want to put the media in jail. That’s not important to him and it would spoil his fun. He doesn’t live to lock up or audit everybody who doesn’t like him.
Maybe what’s happened to Trump in the last few years has changed him, and maybe his second administration will behave differently than his first, but in his first term he didn’t show any desire to persecute his opponents in the way that Democrat prosecutors and attornies general have persecuted him.
The Democrats and their friends never tire of lying about everything.
Everything.
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They never tire because they have an entire complex devoted to assuring the lies and morality.
You’ll never get tired as long as you are convinced you’re a good person on the side of truth.
I think Trump is likely to win, and win beyond the margin of fraud.
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You have no idea how much I wish you are right. My biggest concern is that there is no “margin of fraud.” At least, not any more.
Because what next? Say someone (maybe even both sides) cheat so blatantly, something like an area has 200% voter turnout, what then? What’s going to happen next?
It really looks like the Left has picked up the signal that the answer is “nothing” – there will be no punishment nor pushback so they’re going to cheat because they don’t think anything will happen to them so why not try and get what they want?
“What’s going to happen next?”
Merely that Decent Joe’s gonna hafta set another record.
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Meanwhile, watch out!!
Democratic Party transparency at 12:00!
“New White House official deletes thousands of tweets amid backlash: ‘Cover his tracks?’
“‘…#ISupportGaza #FreePalestine,’ Tyler Cherry wrote in one post”—
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-white-house-official-deletes-thousands-tweets-amid-backlash
I’ll take a Sam Brinton ‘n raise ye’…
He does seem to be like Sam, but there’s no record of his stealing luggage, so that’s something…
Nate Winchester:
My opinion is that, for the most part, voting fraud can’t be proven in court once it happens. It can only be prevented in the first place, and once a state has relaxed the rules enough, it can’t be prevented.
@neo
I quite agree with you.
Mollie Hemingway has been covering the states that have made some effort at security, but of course many states have not.
And that’s going to be another big question. What happens when the states are almost running on two entirety different systems and come to two different results?
I have a lot of trepidation about Nov.
@ Nate & Neo in re margin of fraud > “It can only be prevented in the first place, and once a state has relaxed the rules enough, it can’t be prevented.”
The Democrats are geared up and ready to go.
https://notthebee.com/article/welfare-offices-in-49-states-are-handing-out-voter-registration-forms-to-illegals-without-requiring-proof-of-citizenship