This is an Ugly Chapter in American History

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      We just concluded one of the strangest, and most illuminating, weeks in the history of American politics — a week in which the Democrat Party, through its majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives, exposed itself as driven by anti-American ideologues. Their party has become radicalized by the left. They have attempted to justify their actions by wrapping themselves in false patriotism but their first and foremost allegiance is to an ideology, not the Constitution, not our country or our system of government. That’s why their actions are completely one-sided and compromise has become impossible. They have placated to their cultural urban and suburban enclaves where they have centralized tremendous amounts of power while disregarding the interests and values of most of the country. They have responded to America’s nationalism by retreating deeper into undemocratic institutions, whether it was the bureaucracy or the corporate media, while doubling down on its political radicalism. It is now openly defying the outcome of a national election using a coalition of bureaucrats, corporations, unelected officials, celebrities and reporters that are based out of its cultural and political enclaves.

       These Democrats aren’t interested in fair hearings, and they aren’t interested in persuading the persuadable. What they’re interested in is using political and cultural power to force people to accept things no intelligent person should be able to accept. The Constitution’s system of checks and balances sets the various branches against each other for the laudable purpose of constraining tyranny. However, due to partisan polarization, individual corruption, and corporate indoctrination, sometimes the political institutions in these arrangements fail, sending the governmental system into a crisis.

       Officials from the previous administration, at various levels of government, have rejected the authority of the President of the United States and of the Constitution because those are at odds with their radical ideology. Judges have cloaked this rejection in law. Mayors and governors are not even pretending that their actions are lawful such as seen in the state of Virginia.

 

      The left has made it clear that it will not accept the lawful authority of our system of government. It will not accept the outcome of elections. It will not accept these things because they are at odds with its ideology and because they represent the will of large portions of the country and a President whom they despise.

      President Trump has done much of which I do not approve, but if we start removing presidents from office for thought crime or taking actions that the opposition considers inappropriate even though there is precedent, even though many other presidents have done the same including their own in the previous administration, then it will be a constitutional moment of fundamental significance. Former judge and prosecutor Kenneth Starr said it best when he stated, “This is an ugly chapter in American history.” Thomas Jefferson predicted that “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants..” That time may be coming soon.