During the 2016 election cycle, President Trump was known to point out the crookedness and craven ambition of Hillary Clinton. He led many chants of “lock her up,” yet once he assumed the powers of the presidency he ceased the antagonism of Mrs. Clinton. He left her alone to conspire with others to undermine his presidency.
I see no wisdom in this behavior. It displayed a crucial disregard for the viscousness of the Marxist forces in control of the Democrat Party.
Should Donald Trump successfully return to the Oval Office he should resist the urge to “let sleeping dogs lie.” Those dogs will not be sleeping, they will be plotting. The malicious disdain and criminal actions employed since January 2017 to the present will pale in comparison to what they will have in store for the next iteration of President Trump.
In sports, there is an analogy that applies to this situation. “The best defense is a good offense.”
Once President Trump was inaugurated in January, he thought Democrats would concede defeat. He was wrong.
Why he believed what he believed is a mystery to me, Democrats have never displayed respect for our system of government. They have always whined about their losses, accused their opponents of exactly what they are guilty of doing, and sought to undermine the true electoral victors. They have always infiltrated the unelected positions within government to control the levers of political power, whether officially enacting the will of the reigning administration, or undermining the administration of their opposition.
These actions keep the flow of political power toward Marxist oppression.
Many think of political power as a pendulum, swinging back and forth. They ignorantly fear the excessive force toward the “right,” (or constitutionalism,) that the returning force of the pendulum would take us further to the “left,” (anti-constitutionalism.)
This analysis is flawed. Marxists never allow a return to constitutionalism. The action is more like a ratchet. When the voters replace Marxists, the embedded Marxists within the bureaucracy hold ground until Democrats can swing the populace toward socialism at the ballot box, when the forward motion can be resumed, and likely accelerated.
There will never be peace between the modern Democrats in the federal government and their rivals.
For any Republican to execute faithful constitutional governance, they will need to keep elected Democrats, and even more importantly, Democrat bureaucrats so busy defending themselves that they have no time to plot their assaults against the administration.
A recent Supreme Court decision ending the reign of the Chevron deference doctrine can go a long way to limit the power of bureaucrats.
Should President Trump return to the Whitehouse, he should clean his house. Fire every member of the Biden (Obama Administration,) he can, and build an administration capable of, yea that yearns to prosecute the bad actors like Alvin Bragg and so many more.
There were, and are myriad crimes committed against President Trump, his attorneys, his supporters, (Jan 6 political prisoners,) his associates, and cabinet members, (General Flynn,) by members of the government. These crimes need to be prosecuted or there will be no justice.
Trump needs to take a page from their instruction manual. “The process is the punishment.”
Overlooking this opportunity would not be having mercy upon the “other side,” it would be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It would further subject our republic to the relentless and vicious assault of Marxism.
I say to President Trump, “Lock ‘em up!” All of them.
God bless you, Dave