Instead of executing important policy changes or offloading the incumbent national office holders, they place all their bets on a manipulation of the justice system to strangle President Trump.
https://www.nysun.com/article/democrats-plunging-toward-election-day-find-themselves-caught-in-a-trap-of-their-own-making
The strategists of the Democratic presidential campaign find themselves, just over seven months before the election, caught in a trap that they created for their chief opponent.
Instead
of executing important policy changes or offloading the incumbent national
office holders — who are closely identified with failures in all important
policy areas, inflation, immigration, environment, crime, peace in the
world — they placed all their bets on a scandalous manipulation of the justice
system to strangle President Trump.
With each new wildly
implausible batch of criminal and civil charges, Mr. Trump added to the lead he
had already achieved in the polls because of the across-the-board policy
failures of the Biden administration. A steadily greater number of Americans
has been more appalled at this perversion of the justice system, invariably
accompanied by a Wagnerian chorus about no one being “above the law,” (meaning
beyond the ability of the Democrats to deform the law into an instrument of
partisan harassment); than have been irreconcilable with another Trump
presidential term.
Thus, the principal chosen
method for winning the election, despite all polls showing that the
administration is a policy failure, the legal assault upon Mr. Trump, has
caused an improvement in his position in the polls. Historians of the future
will undoubtedly wonder what possessed the Democrats to imagine that such a
blatantly unjust strategy could possibly succeed.
To support the credibility
of these ludicrously partisan charges, the Democrats have had to torque up
their rhetorical attacks on the former president literally to the point of
frequent unflattering comparisons of him with Hitler. It was only three years
ago that Mr. Trump ended, in questionable electoral circumstances, a four-year
term as president, and nothing that occurred in that time would justify for an
instant any comparison between him and the most evil person ever to lead an
advanced Western country.
Historians of the future
will also wonder what mad departure from the normal precincts of common sense
possessed the Democrats to think that they could succeed politically with the
current sleazy attempt to seize large individual real estate assets of the
former president in settlement of a grotesquely enlarged bond to enable him to
appeal an absurdly engrossed fine for an offense about which no one complained,
and which possesses no criterion of statutory or precedented wrongdoing.
The surest possible antidote
to increasing the ranks of the Trump-haters is to abuse the judicial and
prosecutorial systems so egregiously that the billionaire former president
becomes an underdog and haters are placated, or neutralized, or even disarmed
by the spectacle of cowardice and moral bankruptcy of this tactic.
Judge Arthur Engoron would
have done much better to produce a penalty that a sane and reasonably impartial
person could take seriously. This was such a hideous mockery of due process and
abstract justice that it was a gilt-edged invitation to a man of Mr. Trump’s
histrionic talents to convert into another drop-box of votes. Only those so
febrile with Trump-hate already will not be repulsed by a fraud of such
proportions.
It has been my contention
throughout that none of the criminal cases will get to trial before the
election, because of their inherent vulnerability and the rich variety of
dilatory exceptions available to the defendant. And almost certainly none of
them will get to trial after the election.
While the customary press
claque of lawyer Trump-slayers continues to gambol and wallow in their praise
of the Democratic strategy of abusing the ability to prosecute as a political
technique, I cannot imagine why, as they could see that they were going to be
reduced to this extremity, the Democrats didn’t strike earlier when they
might have been able to produce pre-election trials that their performing
marionettes in the national political media could represent as impartial
exposes of Mr. Trump’s alleged turpitude.
As it is, the average of
polls gives Mr. Trump a 2 percent to 3 percent lead in the overall vote. In
practice, as most polls except for Rasmussen and Trafalgar are conducted by
universities and media outlets with a left-wing bias, the real number is probably
about 5 percent. If the Democratic margin in California and New York over the
Republican margin in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee, about four million votes
for almost equal numbers of electoral votes (82 and 80), Mr. Trump is leading
in the other 45 states by about 11 million votes.
The Democrats are trailing
all the swing states, though Pennsylvania and a couple of the others are within
the margin of error. The Democrats will not be able to harvest and stuff their
way to victory against such an authentic popular headwind. This unprecedentedly
dishonest reelection bid by the Biden administration has assisted in generating
a good deal of flippant talk at home and abroad about the decline of America.
I think that it is an
unfortunate confirmation that America is, compared to most advanced western
countries, an unusually corrupt jurisdiction with an extremely one-sided
criminal justice system and an addiction to civil litigation that is a serious
encumbrance of the country’s economy.
And the role of money in
American politics is in many respects pernicious, but the American
constitutional system makes reform practically impossible and past attempts at
electoral finance reform have, in fact, made matters worse. In its unique and
inimitable way, though, the United States is undoubtedly a democracy, and as a
state whose sovereignty has not been questioned since the Civil War, it
possesses as tenaciously as any nation or people in the world the perfect right
to govern itself as it wishes.
It is the vigorous national
sense and independent spirit of the population, not the integrity of the
political system, that is the chief criterion in whether a nation is rising,
declining, or on a plateau. By this yardstick, the strength of the United States
is undiminished. At the height of its power, Rome was no great pillar of
political virtue.
Greece, at the height of its
civic courage and comparatively democratic originality, was incapable of rising
above the level of a group of squabbling city states and islands and was
constantly quarreling amongst themselves, and was a sitting duck for the
Macedonians, and then the Romans, and it was only by blind luck that those
powers regarded Greece benignly.
Disgraceful, though it is,
this prodigy of illegality and corruption now being plumbed by the Democrats is
in its way, a reassurance that America is not decadent. If it was, the
long-ruling, but palsied and inept bipartisan elite that hates Mr. Trump because
he is a mortal threat to their incumbency, would be much more easily disposed
of.
All countries flourish under
inspired leadership, like America under most of the presidents between FDR and
Reagan. It is another confirmation of the enduring strength of America that it
has so well survived the comprehensively inadequate and ineffectual government
of the current administration.
