By Mike Huckabee
November 12, 2024
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With over two months to go till the Inauguration on January 20, it does feel like the calm before the storm. The Trump 2.0 team seems to be moving as smoothly as a well-oiled machine, tapping some of the best people they could possibly have chosen for positions in his second administration. Maybe even more importantly, he’s NOT tapping others, like former CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, who might have been too swampy themselves for the job of draining the swamp. Trump knows he can’t reform the deep state bureaucracy if he chooses people to run it who came out of it. And so far at least, his stated priorities and his personnel choices are looking good beyond our wildest imaginings.
He’s also not coming off as anything like the vindictive, retribution-seeking President-elect the left has been trying to make America fear. That doesn’t matter, of course, to idiots who have been indoctrinated to hate him as an evil dictator who’s going to destroy democracy, and we’re seeing sporadic threats of violence. At Montoursville Area High School in Pennsylvania, a disturbed 17-year-old boy posted on a bulletin board a “kill list” with the names and addresses of at least eight students and alumni whom he described as Nazis (Trump supporters).
His statement said, “A list of Nazi meeting grounds and conspirators in the Montoursville community that wish death to America and suffering to its people. Destroy the buildings and kill the threats at all cost.”
Some Montoursville residents were horrified that a student had called for burning down houses --- helpfully providing the addresses --- and killing the occupants.
But perhaps even more shocking than the list itself is Superintendent Daniel Taormina’s cavalier attitude about it. He called this a “non-event” and a time-waster and said the threats were “vague.” Vague, really? They seem quite specific to me. One resident said, “The superintendent needs a refresher course in communications. The choice of words doesn’t communicate the level of threat accordingly. Calling for destruction of property with possible victims is simply criminal.”
Another resident agreed that criminal charges were appropriate: “They need to be permanently expelled and mental evaluation done. The rest of the students shouldn’t be worried about having classes with this student and looking over their shoulders.”
We’ve seen so many cases of school shootings in which there had been red flags all over the place and nothing was done until students lay dead. Here’s your huge red flag, Mr. Superintendent, waving right in front of your face. You had better step up, recognize the danger and protect the students in your district. And if this would-be killer came to his hateful attitude with help from any of your teachers or staff, you had better deal with that, too.
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But in a bit of welcome news, Jonathan Turley has a superb column on why the so-called “resistance” movement against Trump might fare very differently this time, making the case for “significant legal and political headwinds” it faces.
This piece was directed at such individuals as New York AG Letitia James, Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Gov. Phil “Fight-to-the-Death” Murphy, all of whom are reflexively doubling down on their anti-Trump rhetoric. Not that they should necessarily set aside their positions just because an election didn’t go their way, Turley says, but these politicians will not be giving themselves even one moment of self-reflection after Trump’s win.
There’s also the WASHINGTON POST, which published an editorial saying “The second resistance to Trump must start now.” Their “resistance” will be more challenging this time.
“Pundits,” Turley said, “lashed out [with fury and delirium] at the majority of voters, insisting that the election established that half the nation is composed of racists, misogynists or domination addicts who long to submit to tyranny.” (Note: in truth, when it comes to tyranny, Trump supporters are just the opposite. We see tyranny coming from the left and do NOT want to submit to it.)
Instead of looking inward and seeing that it’s their own attitudes and policies that led to their defeat, leftists are in large part blaming free speech for their loss. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski expressed the view that voters were “misinformed” by right-wing media. This is why they’re pushing even harder now for censorship when polling has shown that free speech is one of voters’ top issues.
“That does not bode well for the Democratic Party,” Turley said. “As someone raised in a liberal politically active family in Chicago, I had hoped for greater introspection after this election blowout.” But, really, is anyone surprised at their tone-deaf reaction? Turley must see that the wacko Democrat Party of 2024 is nothing like the “liberal” party he grew up in. He’s made the point that they’re addicted to rage. They like it, he said, noting that rage is “the ultimate high produced by the lowest form of political discourse.”
He said that “over the course of the last eight years, the U.S. has become a nation of rage addicts.” Really, though, is it the U.S. as a whole, or does the hottest rage mostly emanate from the left? If Trump had lost this election --- I mean REALLY lost it, fair and square, as devastating as that would be --- don’t you think we on the right would be doing the kind of introspection Turley is talking about, figuring out where we went wrong and strategizing what we need to do? I don’t think we’d be shaving our heads and posting kill lists; at least I hope not.
There’s a difference between anger and rage. That sham January 6 Committee tried to paint Trump supporters as the ones possessed by rage, but that appears to be the projection of their own hatred towards us. I think we’re much more likely to behave like the adults in the room.
Turley singled out Letitia James as the one who “may have done more to re-elect Trump than anyone other than the President himself.” Her Captain Ahab-style pursuit of Trump was and is not a good look and (along with “Special Counsel” Jack Smith, we would add) showed us the ugliest form of lawfare.
Turley described the Democrat Party as “an alliance of political media and academic interests wholly untethered to the views of most of the public.” Too bad most of them are never going to figure this out. (We’ve noticed there are a few exceptions who are starting to see, such as Bill Maher --- good interview on this with actor Michael Douglas --- and Van Jones.) As the majority of Americans wake up to the fact that Democrats are light years away from them in their vision for the country, the left are just going to be left with nothing but their rage.
Here’s a story about some centrist Democrats are finally speaking out to try to wrestle their party back from the insane far-left, but they’ve got quite a battle in front of them.
How kooky has your party become when old time socialist Bernie Sanders now sounds like its voice of reason?
RELATED: Although corrupt DA Fani Willis was re-elected in Fulton County, Georgia, many lefty prosecutors were sent packing. They’re just not in line with what we want to see in our cities, even blue cities.
Another place the blame is going when leftists should be looking in the mirror: straight to Elon Musk, who is right up there with Trump now as a hate magnet. The propaganda arm of the Atlantic Council, THE ATLANTIC, posted a nasty piece by Charlie Warzel that said Musk’s platform X (formerly Twitter) is full of white supremacists and that Musk is one himself.
“X is no longer a social-media site with a white supremacy problem but a white-supremacist site with a social media problem,” Warzel wrote.
Don’t bother reading this garbage; TWITCHY has a brief summary of the piece with some sharp and amusing commentary on it. (Including this gem, which also summarizes Jonathan Turley’s point: “Who needs self-reflection when you can just go bat-poop crazy?”) Leftist publications and social media posts are fueling the hate that will be building over the next couple of months. Right now, that hate is mostly percolating quietly, interrupted now and then by incidents like “kill sheets” posted on bulletin boards.
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