LewRockwell
It would be foolish to scorn a party icon, while allowing ourselves to be pulled toward the woke side.
In a critical commentary on wokeness, Michelle Malkin offers these gloomy thoughts: “The potential for mass deprivation of civil liberties simply cannot be understated in the context of end-stage America’s woke psychosis. The inmates run the asylum—and Republican traitors are supplying the keys.”
I thought about Malkin’s “woke psychosis” while listening to Bret Baier on Fox News scolding Trump and his fans for endangering “Our Democracy™.” Supposedly, Trump and company are performing this act by raising inappropriate questions about the last presidential election. Putting these troublemakers in their place may therefore be necessary for the well-being of the American republic.
Baier went into a particularly long tear against Trump on June 21, after showing us clips from the latest session of the January 6 committee’s hearings. He would have us believe that Trump tried to subvert the Constitution by falsely claiming to win a race he had lost. Now we might agree that Trump went too far in trying to keep the results of what he thought was a dishonest election from being officially registered. While that election stank to high heaven, particularly in my state of Pennsylvania, Trump and his confidants perhaps behaved improperly when they tried to pressure public officials into changing the electors. (Let’s not forget the Democrats had demanded the same in 2016!)
