Abandonment of Democracy? Who Says?
Posted By: Dreadnought, 11/30/2024 2:06:28 AM
The Washington Examiner quotes Della Volpe, polling director at Harvard’s Kennedy School Institute of Politics and a loyal Democrat, on what the Democrats need to do to try to regain power. Much of what Volpe says is sensible, but I want to focus on just one point: his identification of the Democratic Party with democracy. You see it all the time. Loss of faith in the Democratic Party equals loss of faith in democracy, attacks on the Democratic Party equal attacks on democracy, and so on. Volpe writes: Millions of Americans aren’t shifting right — they’re walking away.
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It hasn't always been Trump's practice to stay quiet while his enemies destroy themselves, but he seems to be taking a mostly sit-back-and-wait approach to watching Joe Biden set flame to the rotted wood and sticks that currently make up the Democrat Party. When he feels like it, Trump may take a poker and push around the embers of his enemies,
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While I am not generally of the opinion that criticism from one's enemies is always a sufficient endorsement of a candidate--after all, a choice may be bad even if a leftist says it is--in this case, I am fully confident that Patel has earned his hatred from the left in a truly honest way and that they hate him because they fear he will expose their crimes and misdemeanors.
Watergate Prosecutor Wine-Banks: ‘Thrilled’
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Former prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, one of the prosecutors during the Watergate scandal, said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Prime” that she was “thrilled” President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden.
Host Jonathan Capehart said, “Your reactions to President Biden pardoning his son?”
Wine-Banks said, “I’m relieved and thrilled that he did it, this was one of the cases that called out clemency. Hunter Biden first of all would not ever be prosecuted for the gun crime, but for his last name. Second of all, he was addicted and that was a cause of his actions, he has now been sober
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Yes, ten years. Absolute insanity. That means anything else that pops up in that time period doesn’t count. Hunter cannot face any charges. Hunter pleaded guilty to tax evasion. He was going to face sentencing on December 16 for lying on a federal form by saying he was not using drugs or addicted to drugs when trying to buy a gun.
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From the day I took
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Patel, who is more than qualified for the position, is just the man to accomplish that. He was instrumental in uncovering the Russian collusion hoax and will not pull any punches to "protect the shield." Naturally, that's making all the right people upset.
Why won’t this man just go away?
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