Whither We Go?

Two points of view for the price of one, both held by your Tatler.

From the estimable John Solomon:

Long before it professed no prior knowledge of the raid on Donald Trump’s estate, the Biden White House worked directly with the Justice Department and National Archives to instigate the criminal probe into alleged mishandling of documents, allowing the FBI to review evidence retrieved from Mar-a-Lago this spring and eliminating the 45th president’s claims to executive privilege, according to contemporaneous government documents reviewed by Just the News.

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‘The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President’s purported ‘protective assertion of executive privilege,'” Wall wrote. ‘… I have therefore decided not to honor the former President’s ‘protective’ claim of privilege.’

Your correspondent holds two points of view regarding the above and what it portends for this country, but not at the same time of course (only modern liberals are capable of that). Which view he favors depends on a variety of factors, one of them quite possibly being the availability of a decent single-malt.

Bickerstaff the pessimist favors this interpretation: the left, having succeeded in its long march through the world’s institutions (even the Holy Catholic Church, or at least the Vatican with our Biden-like Pope) is on the cusp instituting a totalitarian socialist regime in the United States and eventually the world. That being the case, those opposed will have no choice but, essentially, going underground, exercising great caution whenever venturing out in public, paying heed to watch every action and word, lest they be reported to the authorities, rounded up, and disappeared.

Anticipating its seemingly inevitable paradise, the left has thrown caution to the wind, and (mixing metaphors) is rubbing their upcoming victory in the faces of the rest of us, as the recent raid on Donald Trump’s house in Mar-a-Lago illustrates nicely.

Meanwhile, Bickerstaff the optimist, assisted perhaps by a few sips of Glenfarclas (neat, with a splash), has a much different take. Rather than riding the road to victory, the left has realized time is running out for them. Despite wresting control of the schools and universities, the armed forces, cultural institutions and even a good percentage of corporate boards of directors, there is one enormous institution of which the left has not only failed to achieve total control, but day by day lessens, the American public.

The general opinion of pollsters is Americans roughly number 40-percent for each major party, Democrat and Republican, ten-percent, independent and ten-percent apathetic or braindead. Your Tatler (the optimistic one, that is) however suspects those percentages do not tell the whole tale.

According to Forbes,

More Americans still identified as Democrats or said they lean Democratic than as Republicans on average in 2021—with 46% versus 43%—though that’s slightly closer than in 2020, when 48% were Democrats and 43% were Republicans.

But (italics added):

While more Gallup respondents leaned Democratic than Republican on average in 2021, a larger share of respondents also categorized their views as “conservative” rather than “liberal.” A 37% plurality of Americans said they held “moderate” views in 2021, but 36% said they’re either conservative or “very conservative,” while 24% were liberal or “very liberal.” Those numbers are similar to 2020, when Democrats also had an advantage in party affiliation.

And keep in mind this Forbes piece was published back January and there have been more than a few events reflecting poorly on the hapless Biden Administration. Thus it could be the Democrat-liberal-left, realizing Americans are deserting them daily, are panicking that this fall’s elections could be the beginning of the end for them. Hence they are engaging in wild stunts–something, anything–to stop their nemesis Donald Trump from running again, whose winning back the presidency would pretty much consign the Dems to the back bench for a long, long time.

Even if the left is finally beaten back at the polls though, it is still an open question whether or not our institutions can be rescued. They may be too far gone to be saved, which brings to mind that famous quote (though possibly spurious, it’s source was Peter Arnett) from an army officer during the Viet Nam war: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” Something akin to that may be necessary for a good number of our country’s institutions, but will only occur if the left, like that late town in Viet Nam, itself is politically destroyed.