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Oh my. Give the man the Witty Comment of the Week award. He said it all. He said it well.

What do you think of the idea of Trump pardoning Hunter Biden?

I think it would be a huge insult to every one of his voters. It would just be ratifying the idea that there is one set of rules for the elite, and one for everyone else. It would, in effect, be deepening the Deep State.

It's basically David Frenchism, in my opinion. It's giving the air of inhabiting the higher ground by (basically) withholding punitive action. It's trying to make the lack of a backbone seem worthy. I don't believe (in McCarthy's case, at least) they actively are trying to disguise their moral cowardice. But I do believe it is moral cowardice (or moral unseriousness) that is the driver.

I agree with you. There are limits to what we can do about Iran. And yet if Iran continues to be an existential threat to Israel, I can't imagine Trump trying to actively undermine Israel.

Now is the time to be optimistic, jubilant, and hopeful. Trump and his team will almost certainly fix a good many things in the coming four years, and likely beyond that if J.D. runs and wins, although Vice Presidents succeeding their presidents has, I think, a spotty history.

However, I do like the reality-check given by Mark Lewis in what I think is a more far-sighted article: Why the Democrats Really Lost. In the last paragraph, Mark writes:



I don't think one needs to be a pessimist or see the glass as half full to note that, for all the hand-wringing about Harris losing, it was actually a large victory for their cause that they could run someone so far left, so tongue-tied, so creepy (note her VP pick), and so obviously unqualified for high office that she was not that far from winning. What she wasn't able to do, as Obama and Clinton did, was to better mask her far-left ideology. Nor could she untie herself from Biden whose policies were seen as somewhat ruinous.

All the things Trump will do will need doing. But until someone reforms the university system so that it isn't cranking out America-hating Marxists, the Trump years will mirror the Reagan years in that it will give us a respite but not a solution.

We see this over and over again. Times get good and people quickly forget the necessaries for creating this good in the first place and reach for the Utopian promises. Rinse and repeat. It's probably the best we can do right now. But you'd hope we could find some long-term goal and agenda. This is why Andy McCarthy is not just wrong about pardons, he is destructively wrong. His kind (and he's not David French, but there are similarities now) need to be run out of the party and positions of influence.

It is arguable that Trump would not have won without installing Lara Trump and a new regime in the RNC who apparently were active in working against voter fraud. It was clear that the previous chairmen had no interesting in rooting out voter fraud and very probably (much like the Secret Service) saw their kind of soft inaction to be a plus in regards to undermining Trump. For we can now, even if we don't have specifics, see from the overall popular vote totals this time around that there was something very rotten in Denmark in the last election.

Without an active (statist, if you will) Republican Party using power to push its agenda , we will quickly land back in the squishy sphere of RINO-ism where, arguably, the Republicans in power care more about pleasing their liberal wives and the liberal media than battling Marxists. They will justify their perfidy as "reaching across the aisle" and other euphemisms. But it is the same as surrendering nonetheless.

And as Lewis and others clearly note, it is the hard-left Marxists who are in charge of the Democrat Party. Anyone who thinks they can play nice with this party is not only wrong but they are destructively wrong and an impediment to those who would oppose and hopefully defeat these beasts.