After the election with two races undecided in Georgia, Chuck Schumer sounded more like William Tecumseh Sherman, proclaiming on the streets of New York: “Now we take Georgia, then we change the world. Now we take Georgia, then we change America.” The Senate Minority Leader (and hopeful Senate Majority Leader) was referring to two runoff elections that could hand the Senate to the Democrats with total control of the legislative and executive branches. The last Yankee to promise a scorched earth campaign through Georgia delivered on his promise. Ironically, the Georgia campaign will commence on an ominous anniversary. The infamous “March to the Sea” by Gen. Sherman began on November 15th and ended shortly before Christmas. The march left Georgia in ashes.
The idea of the march through Georgia was to break the spirit and ability of the South to continue to resist. It has been described as “total war” with Sherman’s forces living off the land as Sherman promised to utterly destroy his opponents.
One distinction is that Democrats are predicting that the scorched earth campaign will come after, not during the Georgia campaign. When the news media was still predicting a “Blue wave” taking both houses before the election, senators were openly discussing stripping their colleagues of legislative powers, packing the court, and changing the political system. Even after losing seats in the House and a close presidential election, Schumer was assuring his supporters that Democrats will move forward with their sweeping agenda on a single vote margin in the Senate.
That agenda took on an even more menacing tenor in a tweet from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She rallied Democrats to win the Georgia races so “we don’t have to negotiate in that way.” She further seemed to promise another scorched Earth campaign against anyone who was not sufficiently opposed to Trump. She tweeted “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.”
Other Democratic figures are celebrating Biden as a “healer” while emphasizing that he and his followers remain evil incarnate. Former first lady Michelle Obama denounced “tens of millions of people voted for the status quo, even when it meant supporting lies, hate, chaos, and division.”
The “healing” moment appears to have passed as the nation falls back on what is now our natural default position of contempt and condemnation. There are still scores to be settled and spoils to be claimed. When Biden said that we will now “see each other again,” it appears to have been heard as an invitation for targeting rather than embracing those on the other side. When asked about AOC’s call for a black list, Sanders surrogate Nomiki Konst helpfully noted that the first on the list would be people like the former Republicans in the Lincoln Project. She said that those people like George Conway are the “perfect examples” of people to be cancelled despite their work against Trump. That did not take long. After spending millions in support of Biden, Knost and AOC are calling for all such figures to be listed and held “accountable.”
The promise to identify and cancel anyone deemed as “complicit” is all-too-familiar for many faculty and students across the country. We have been increasing intolerance for dissenting views. What began as compelled silence has become compelled speech where the failure to be sufficiently enthusiastic is deemed evidence of complicity. Indeed, Marymount Manhattan theater arts associate professor Patricia Simon was the subject of a campaign to be fired after appearing to fall asleep briefly during an anti-racist meeting held on Zoom. She was by definition not “woke.”
It appears that lists are being prepared on some campuses. At Harvard, students are calling for the firing of professors who personally hold views deemed unacceptable. Joshua Conde, a Crimson editor pointed to the hiring of two professors Diana Schaub and David Kane who were viewed as critical of the loss of faith and family values in the African-American community. The editorial demanded that Harvard remove any professors who hold “similar unacceptable views” because “The voices of students cannot be ignored any longer.”
I am not sure if I will be one of those found “complicit.” While I have repeatedly criticized Trump, I testified at the impeachment hearing as the only Republican witness. So let me cut to the chase. I am ready for reform. I am frantically assembling my columns criticizing Trump to clutch pathetically to my chest through any public shaming. It is not clear if any of us can still redeem ourselves as cooperative subjects for reeducation but, I am prepared to give up names (starting with my editors). I will immediately embrace everything from Biden’s consideration of unprecedented court packing to Elizabeth Warren’s call for unconstitutional wealth taxes as really good ideas. Just give me a chance. Why cancel when simple coercion will suffice?
In the Union song, “Marching Through Georgia,” Sherman’s forces sang “Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain.” The problem is that even those who joined the “resistance,” like those at the Lincoln Project, are now being set up for cancelling. I have often quoted the statement of French revolutionary Abbe Sieyes, the author of French Revolution’s manifesto of “What Is The Third Estate?” Yet, when asked what he had done during the French Revolution, he simply responded “I survived.”
Tch, tch, Jonathan Turley. You should have reviewed American history before frothing about the march through Georgia.
Anyway, Stacey Adams’ army *is* the modern face of Georgia. You would have done better with a post about her substantial accomplishments.
Tch, tch.
Really can you name just a few that belong to her alone?
Has she ever conceded? Or does she still declare herself the rightful governor of the state?
Quite ironic Turley mentions scorched earth campaign. Let’s recap. Before the election, Trump & his campaign said no candidate has ever generated the massive enthusiasm Trump gets. Now Trump say polls predicting a Biden victory suppressed his vote count. But Trump also insists he won the election by a lot.
Meanwhile Turley is talking about General Sherman & Monty Python. And neglects to mention 5 former Trump cabinet members called Trump unfit for office & a pathological liar. And numerous Republican governors, senators, Congress members, national security advisers, federal prosecutors & other Republican adminstration officials endorsed BIden & said Trump was a threat to democracy.
To this day, Trump refuses to accept the results of the 2016 election. He falsely believes he won the popular vote & accused millions of Hillary Clinton supporters of massive voter fraud. Polls show half of his supporters also believe Trump won the popular vote in 2016.
Quite charming to hear Turley now lightheartedly professing to be ready for reform. He knows full well Trump supporters who adamantly believe Trump won the 2016 popular vote will never accept the results of the 2020 election & never accept Biden as their duly elected president. Onward to Georgia!
Well it seems that people usually get the politicians they deserve.
If you do not value your Freedom and Liberty, then it is only fitting and proper that it be taken from you.
They are calling it the ‘healing’ of ‘the soul’ of America under Biden, but what they mean is the ‘blacklisting’ and ‘purging’ of America’s heart and soul has begun.
Trump understands the “heart and soul” of America far better than any of these leftists ever will.
They are calling the election of Joe Biden, “a new day” for America??? What do they think we are smoking??
JT: “After spending millions in support of Biden, Knost and AOC are calling for all such figures to be listed and held ‘accountable.”’
“The revolution devours its own children.”
JT: “I will immediately embrace everything . . .”
Look on the bright side. The Revolutionaries might only compel you to wear a Scarlet Letter on your breast.
The communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO) enemy must prove its election victory with empirical and documentary evidence.
In all cases of votes counted for Biden, wherein any form of voter identification or ballot data has been erased, deleted or, otherwise, eliminated, the vote shall not count.
The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) must be prosecuted for willful and deliberate obstruction of a fair election and destruction of evidence related to the election.
When the sun gets too close we will get a scorched earth. We got one with Lincoln but it was worth it. The South Will Dem Again!
This truly is life following art “Animal Farm” anyone?
If the democrats take control, good chance of supreme court packing.
Packing the supreme court leads to de facto democratic socialism. Here’s how: Democratic socialism is basically allowing voting on any matters whatsoever. There are no constitutional constraints as there is in liberal and constitutional democracies. The public could vote in state control of the economy and state ownership of all property. And they could vote to control all aspects of life. Right now we have constraints, based on constitutional limits of what government can do, a bill of rights limiting what rights the government can take away, and some argue that basic civil and human rights can veto voting over-reach. However, we have abundant examples of judges neglecting these protections. Our remedy is appellate courts of which the supreme court is the last resort. If the packed Scotus judges disregard the constitution in favor of “the greater good of nice outcomes” approach, the appellate function is, in reality, a rubber stamp of irresponsibility. Moreover, judicial review of all three branches decisions and/or actions could rubber stamp whatever the public votes for that fits the ideology of the judges. While we would technically be living under limited government (de jure), the de facto situation would become unconstrained voting possibilities backed up with Scotus. Democratic socialists and anarchists typically resort to “empathy feelings” as the safeguard against bad voting. But without institutional restrictions, voting based on feeling is tantamount to mob rule.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2020/11/09/fact-big-media-and-big-tech-stole-2020-election
An MRC study finds that 4.6% of Joe Biden voters would NOT have voted for him had they known about the Biden family’s corrupt business dealings. Because Big Tech and Big Media censored it from voters. The fix was in.
That seems like a ‘modest proposal’, Professor.
THIS IS WAR
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In 1861, President of the United States Abraham Lincoln took two steps intended to maintain order and public safety in the now-divided country.
In his capacity as commander in chief, Lincoln declared martial law in all states and ordered the suspension of the constitutionally protected right to writs of habeas corpus in the state of Maryland and parts of the Midwestern states.
– Robert Longley
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Democrats have criminally engineered, corrupted and commandeered the U.S. election process commencing Civil War II.
President Trump must declare martial law, suspend Habeas Corpus, prosecute the criminal election fraud perpetrators, seize voting apparatus in all 50 states and conduct a complete recount of “legal” votes.
Or, just have a few million Republicans move to Georgia for a few months. Rent a cheap apartment, register to vote, and be done with it. Actually GA might not be a bad place to spend the winter if you live up north.
Jonathan Goebbels has outdone himself with this “blood and soil” screed.
Just a bit inflammatory don’t you think JT?
Not at all. If you are going to be a socialist why shrink from beinig described in socialist terms?
being described in socialist terms. They are accurate except where used on others who are Constitutionalist Citizens but perfectly fit those who choose to be called socialist by any of their other names. Sorry you don’t get to reframe or redefine this one. Suck it up and go back and read what they already promised. Continuing to keep their security forces despicably ring a bell? The return on that is the security forces despise you. So they must be thinking about Obama’s Directorate of Internal State Security which he described then as using DOHS to become larger and more powerful than our real military. In other words a a schutz staffel. or a KGB.No…. being described in those accurate terms is easily found to be the real truth just be reading the rhetoric of the far left extremists. Within the first day and even now the rhetoric is the kind that makes you reach for pepper spray stun gun and shot guns.
And they haven’t even waited for the final counts…..
No problem getting rid of that bunch. Martial law a supply of handcuffs and leg chains and use the Patriot Act section on terrorists. Because in the end that is all they are.
Anna: “Just a bit inflammatory don’t you think JT?”
Or understated. Totalitarians rounding up political “criminals” tends to inflame those who love liberty.
Sam. you don’t love liberty, you love Trump.
Hate to break it too you buddy, but he’s just not that into you.
I basically took Schumer’s statement as a declaration, that yes, they will do everything in their power to cheat in Georgia, and if they lose, the temper tantrum fueled riots will start anew with no intervention of any kind. That AOC is being taken seriously in any fashion and that Schumer basically just gave his Hitler speech should be alarming all of us, but nope – crickets. We let this situation happen, we created it. It probably could have been nipped in the bud 10 or 15 years ago, but nobody wanted to hear it. I am legitimately concerned for you, Professor. Good luck.
Demographics matter. When the Republicans had control of both houses of Congress, they had the opportunity to reform the immigration laws to favor persons who would bring much needed skills to this country. Instead, they sat on their hands and let the current system continue, under which we get massive numbers of Third World, impoverished immigrants seeking the government benefits that Democrats promise them. And of course, Biden will most assuredly grant amnesty to 20 million illegals. So I don’t see the Republicans ever again electing a President. Demographics matter, and your Republican elected representatives screwed themselves and their constituents at the same time.
Democrats using stolen intelligence tools to rig vote
Hammer and Scorecard
https://noqreport.com/2020/11/04/hammer-and-scorecard-lt-gen-mcinerney-explains-the-election-hack-by-democrats/
–Saloth Sar
Never were the “poor,” women, hyphenates or unassimilable foreign invaders intended to vote in the American republic. As the vote was restricted at the inception of republicanism in Greece, so was it restricted by the Founders. More importantly, government was severely limited and restricted by the Constitution making the vote by the masses of parasites moot – they may want infinite “free stuff” but the Constitution denies it (i.e. Article 1, Section 8 – the 5th Amendment right to private property).
Once the Constitution was nullified and every person was allowed to vote for benefits, entitlements and “free stuff,” the end was decided. It was to be the “dictatorship of the proletariat.” America could not keep Ben Franklin’s restricted-vote republic. America lost its discipline as immigration restrictions, vote restrictions and constitutional restrictions. If anyone and everyone can vote for anything and everything, they will obtain the only thing that results: Dictatorship.
“Instead, they sat on their hands and let the current system continue,…”
You’re getting warmer:
“Paradoxically enough, the release of initiative and enterprise made possible by popular self-government ultimately generates disintegrating forces from within. Again and again after freedom has brought opportunity and some degree of plenty, the competent become selfish, luxury-loving and complacent, the incompetent and the unfortunate grow envious and covetous, and all three groups turn aside from the hard road of freedom to worship the Golden Calf of economic security. The historical cycle seems to be: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to apathy; from apathy to dependency; and from dependency back to bondage once more.
“At the stage between apathy and dependency, men always turn in fear to economic and political panaceas. New conditions, it is claimed, require new remedies. Under such circumstances, the competent citizen is certainly not a fool if he insists upon using the compass of history when forced to sail uncharted seas. Usually so-called new remedies are not new at all. Compulsory planned economy, for example, was tried by the Chinese some three milleniums ago, and by the Romans in the early centuries of the Christian era. It was applied in Germany, Italy and Russia long before the present war broke out. Yet it is being seriously advocated today as a solution of our economic problems in the United States. Its proponents confidently assert that government can successfully plan and control all major business activity in the nation, and still not interfere with our political freedom and our hard-won civil and religious liberties. The lessons of history all point in exactly the reverse direction.”
– Henning W. Prentis, 1943
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy–to be followed by a dictatorship.”
– Anonymous
Poor Prof Turley, you no longer will hold atop your pedestal as the Rational Trump Man. Of course, you may continue to try to do so while he is in exile. But it just won’t be the same. You might even have to find a new gig.
I foresee major cheating in Georgia; this recent election is just a preview.
I see no “uniter” in Lying Biden or his smirking VP.
I foresee a fortune to be made by civil rights attorneys who will have no trouble shepherding cases to SCOTUS.
The Dems are tone deaf.
In 2016, they were lousy losers. In 2020, they are proving to be worse winners.
Way to reach consensus.
Schumer seems to belong to the Harvey Weinstein (that other famous Dem), school of seduction.
Wake up.
The Ref threw a flag.
The “dems” are not “winners.”
They committed a foul.
The “dems” will now be penalized.
The correct score will ultimately be posted.
Only documented, registered, eligible and resident citizens may cast a ballot, and only on Tuesday, one day, and within a 24-hour period, after which polling places are closed and no more ballots may be submitted.
Here’s the election rule:
2 U.S. Code § 7. Time of election
The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of the States and Territories of the United States, of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.
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Read it. Tuesday. One day. 24 hours. Documented, registered, eligible and resident citizens.
America will soon discover if its Supreme Court supports the Constitution as it is sworn to.
Pig Democrats will find a way to cheat!