Democrats Think They Can Break the Rules

Democrats didn't start cheating with the post 2016 effort to remove President Trump.

Oh no; they started long before that. Let us count the ways. Let us start in 1960.

Democrats stole the close presidential election of 1960. Mayor Daley of Chicago delayed reporting the vote totals of his city until downstate Illinois had reported so he knew how many votes to manufacture. Then there was Lyndon Johnson in Texas. He made sure that the Democrats won there. The losing presidential candidate Richard Nixon gracefully conceded.

Democrats ran President Nixon out of office in 1974 on trumped up charges of campaign spying. As if nobody else does it. Republicans were shamed into abandoning the president after he was impeached in the House and a delegation of Republican senators went down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House and told him he had to go.

In the second term of President Reagan, after the Republicans lost the Senate, Democrats began investigating the Iran-Contra affair in which White House staffers had diverted monies from Iran to fund Nicaraguan rebels against the lefty Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega. It went nowhere because President Reagan -- who we were taught to believe was an amiable since -- played the amiable dunce and didn't give the Democrats a smoking gun with which they could impeach him. Also, the Democrats inadvertently made a national hero out of Col. Oliver North.

In 2000 George W. Bush narrowly won the presidential election in spite of a Democratic October Surprise featuring Bush's days as a drunk. After two terms of Clinton, it was time, you might think, for a change. But Democrats tried to steal the election with a recount in Florida featuring the now-famous hanging chads. After the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of Bush the left-wing activist community covered liberal cars with "Selected not Elected" bumper stickers. Not good.

Late in the Bush administration Democrats made a federal case out of Vice-President Cheney's aide Scooter Libby outing an intelligence agent and ruined him and sent him to jail. Only he didn't.

Finally we get to the 2016 election that Donald Trump won fair and square despite the October Surprise Access Hollywood tape that Democrats had procured to gross out nice suburban women.

We all know what transpired. Hillary Clinton decided not no concede on election night: I presume she was drunk. Then we got the Russians Are Coming narrative. Remember when Democrats used to accuse Republicans of looking for Russians under the bed? Now Democrats have turned their frustration at losing the election into a campaign to kick a duly-elected president out of office.

Now I think that Rule One of elective politics is alternation in office, and allowing the other side to take office.

Rule Two is not to use the power of government to harass the opposition party.

Democrats have been routinely violating these rules at least since 1960, and if they don't stop it is going to lead to blood.

I honestly think that most Democrats really have no clue how dangerous their abuse of power is becoming. They just believe in ruling-class conventional wisdom and what they read in ruling-class media and what they are hearing from their educated-class friends. They do not understand that the two rules are the way in which a wise ruling class avoids rebellion.

Because the point of my two rules is simple. Anyone on the receiving end of a ruling class that does not concede elections and uses police powers to harass the opposition will start to experience its rulers as cruel and unjust and pretty soon the ruling class will find itself facing a head of rebellion.

That is why it is in the interest of Democrats to follow the rules: Rule One to let the other guys alternate in office; Rule Two to refrain from abusing police power.

But I don't think that late-dynasty Democrats understand that. They are too full of their identity politics conventional wisdom to understand how they are playing with fire.

So it is up to us to teach them not to cheat.