The lesson of 2020

The other day I criticized Kurt Schlichter for being a new Never Trumper because he tweeted, “Trump can’t win because 53% of Americans will never vote for him and he will lose the key states he needs to win the electoral college.”

54% did not vote for him in 2016. He won.

Schlichter also wrote, “Trump presents problems and we need to face them. We owe Trump nothing. He’s a politician.”

We owe Trump plenty. He lost billions serving as president, both in actual losses and money he could have made had he stayed on the porch.

A reader pointed out that Schlichter said he would vote for President Trump in the general election — after trying to kneecap him in the primaries. That will be too late because the damage will have been done. We must unite behind The Donald because if they can crush him, they will crush us all.

For all Schlichter’s schooling (he’s a lawyer) and all his experience (he’s a retired infantry officer) he has not learned the lesson of 2020, which is that our constitutional republic ended with the end of the Trump presidency on January 20, 2021. Marxists won by any means necessary. The electoral process was demolished by crooked ballot harvesting, late-night switcheroos and a judiciary that refused to look at evidence and stop the steal.

President Trump was our last hope and now is our only hope of restoring a republic that protects individuals from the ravages of a government so powerful and ubiquitous that the communists in Red China now envy our totalitarianism. And it will get worse.

The J6 show trials for insurrection — daring to challenge the results of a fixed election — are but one example.

Gateway Pundit reported, “A 69-Year-Old Grandma with Cancer Given More Prison Time for Walking Inside the U.S. Capitol than Hunter Biden for Sharing Classified Documents with Foreign Regimes and Multi-Million Dollar Bribery Schemes.”

The judge sentenced her to 60 days for trespassing in a public building — after the Capitol Police opened the doors for her.

Others received sentences of years. People who were not even in Washington on that day were charged and convicted.

We do not have a two-tiered criminal justice system because we do not have a criminal justice system because Department of Justice seeks vengeance, not justice. We have given the federal government great powers that exceed its constitutional authority.

The FBI lied and spied on Donald Trump at the behest of Barack Hussein Obama. Based on the FBI lies, judges issued warrants to allow the spying on a political opponent. Democrats learned from Nixon and Watergate. When it comes to spying on a political opponent don’t rely on bumbling amateurs who will get caught. Trust only the pros.

Parents who rebel against public school indoctrination are targets of the Biden vengeance squad. Merrick Garland — bitter over the refusal of Republicans to confirm his nomination as a Supreme Court — targeted Moms for Liberty for destruction because he wants to thwart any attempt by suburban moms to challenge federal government decrees to promote anti- white and anti-straight curriculums.

The media supports this.

NPR said, “More than two years into a conservative push against teaching about Black history, literature and gender identity in public schools, the Southern Poverty Law Center has concluded that a dozen so-called ‘parental rights’ groups behind the movement are extremist.

“The civil rights organization particularly focuses on the largest of these, the nonprofit Moms for Liberty, in its annual Year in Hate & Extremism report for 2022, saying that it advances an anti-student inclusion agenda.

“The SPLC has put it and similar organizations on its list of anti-government extremist entities, drawing comparisons between them and parent groups that attempted to re-segregate public schools during the civil rights movement.”

The SPLC is a bigoted group of liberals whose purpose is to demonize effective conservative groups. Citing them shows NPR no longer is subtle in its bias.

I remember when hippies were anti-government. They are in control. They are doing everything they falsely accused Nixon of doing 50 years ago. I voted for McGovern. Older and wise, I regret that vote because Nixon truly was the one. He was done in by Mark Felt of the FBI who was bitter at being passed over to succeed J. Edgar Hoover, who was the Fauci of law enforcement.

Now Trump is the target.

Garland appointed as Trump’s prosecutor Jack Smith, who lives in the Netherlands.

Newsweek explained, “Newly appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith is married to a documentary filmmaker who worked on a 2020 film about former first lady Michelle Obama and donated to President Joe Biden's 2020 campaign.”

The media hailed this Jack S as a tough prosecutor. He’s a courtroom assassin.

Monica Showalter explained, “This from the guy who led a prosecution that was so flawed against Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell that the Supreme Court, on an 8-0 vote, threw it out, and the Department of Justice declined to retry him? If there were something there, they should have been able to retry him, but there were significant problems with the whole costly mess, which in any case, got them what they wanted: the ruin of McDonnell's political career, even though he was guilty of nothing. That's a political prosecution.”

Republicans don’t play hardball. They don’t even play softball.

The Jack S is a triple crown player.

Showalter said, “Worse still, Smith was the actual instigator to the IRS's attack dogs, led by the infamous Lois Lerner, who fired the starting pistol for the IRS's persecution of Tea Party groups in 2012, delaying their applications for nonprofit status, subjecting them to bizarre searches and seizures, an admitted abuse of power, which they later claimed to have apologized for, which was easy to do because the political aim of the delays had been accomplished: swinging the 2012 election to Obama. Smith gave the go-ahead, undoubtedly doing the bidding of his boss at the time, one Barack Obama, whose wife Smith's wife made an adoring documentary about.”

She wrote that last November.

Where was the Republican outrage? In fact, where are those January 6 tapes Joe Blow McCarthy promised? Where are the expulsions of Schiff and the liars and spies in the House who pushed RussiaGate?

Trump supporters — mocked by deserters as Only Trumpers — are loyal because there is no alternative. Without him, we will be caught in the next wave of imprisonment.

Politico said, “he is also the politician about whom two things can be said:

“One, his personal and public life makes a mockery of the Christian ideals of evangelical voters.

“And, two, he is the person who has delivered more policy victories for these same voters than any other president.”

Who the heck is some writer in Sodomton DC to determine what evangelicalism’s values are? Trump delivered. Abortion is no longer a right; states will determine if it is legal.

But the publication reflects the alternate reality DC Republicans live in. Consider this missive from Newsmax:

“Former Texas congressman Will Hurd, a onetime CIA officer and fierce critic of Donald Trump, announced on Thursday that he's running for president, hoping to build momentum as a more moderate alternative to the Republican primary field's early front-runner.”

CIA. He’s Egg McMuffin Jr. Don’t worry, conservatives. The intelligence community will determine what you stand for.

Supporting Trump is signing one’s death warrant. The Mickey Mouse but deadly indictments made that clear. The only way to end the madness is to re-elect President Trump. DeSantis and Vivek cannot show the world that we mean business. Need I have to quote Martin Niemöller to get the point across?

OK. I will.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Americans had a choice in 2016.

We have none next year. It is Trump or else. I like DeSantis and wish him well, but after this last indictment, I realize there is but one way to win our nation back from our own federal government.