* * *
Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would
"accept" defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump
replied, “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.”
“That’s horrifying,” said Clinton, setting off a chain
reaction on the post-debate panels with talking heads falling all over one
another in purple-faced anger, outrage and disbelief.
“Disqualifying!” was the cry on Clinton cable.
“Trump Won’t Say If He Will Accept Election Results,”
wailed The New York Times. “Trump Won’t Vow to Honor Results,” ran the banner
in The Washington Post.
* YOU KNOW, FOLKS... HAD WALLACE ACTUALLY BEEN SINCERE IN
HIS QUESTIONING AND FAUX CONCERN, HE WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED UP HIS QUESTIONING OF
TRUMP WITH THE FOLLOWING QUERY OF MRS. CLINTON:
"MRS. CLINTON. SHOULD LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS ARISE CONCERNING THE FAIRNESS OF THE INITIAL ELECTION TALLY WOULD YOU - IF YOU ARE INITIALLY DECLARED THE WINNER - AGREE NOT TO CLAIM VICTORY UNTIL THE RESULTS COULD BE CERTIFIED AFTER A FULL EXAMINATION OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES REGARDING ANY ALLEGATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD?"
* HMM...??? FAIR QUESTION?
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)
* BUT OF COURSE ONE DOESN'T GET FAIR QUESTIONS FROM MEDIA
FIGURES REPRESENT EITHER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OR THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT.
(*SHRUG*)
But what do these chattering classes and establishment
bulletin boards think the Donald is going to do if he falls short of 270
electoral votes - lead a Coxey’s Army on Washington and burn it down as British
General Robert Ross did in August 1814, while “Little Jemmy” Madison fled on
horseback out the Brookeville Road?
(*SNORT*)
What explains the hysteria of the Establishment?
In a word... FEAR.
The Establishment is horrified at the Donald’s defiance
because, deep within its soul, it fears that the people for whom Trump speaks
no longer accept its political legitimacy or moral authority.
* I DON'T. DO YOU?
* BESIDES BEING CORRUPT SCUMBAGS, THESE POLITICIANS HAVE
BASICALLY GUTTED THE CONSTITUTION.
* NO CONSTITUTIONAL RULE OF LAW... EQUALS NO LEGITIMACY.
(*SHRUG*)
It may rule and run the country, and may rig the system
through mass immigration and a mammoth welfare state so that Middle America is
never again able to elect one of its own. But that Establishment, disconnected
from the people it rules, senses, rightly, that it is unloved and even
detested.
* YOU FOLKS KNOW WHAT MY PROPOSED SOLUTION IS... RIGHT?
(*WINK*)
(*GRIN*)
Having [rigged] the future, the Establishment finds half
of the country looking upon it with the same sullen contempt that our Founding
Fathers came to look upon the overlords Parliament sent to rule them.
(*NOD*)
Establishment panic is traceable to another fear: Its
ideology, its political religion, is seen by growing millions as a golden calf,
a 20th-century god that has failed.
After having expunged Christianity from our public life
and public square, our Establishment installed “democracy” as the new deity, at
whose altars we should all worship. And so our schools began to teach.
Half a millennia ago, missionaries and explorers set sail
from Spain, England and France to bring Christianity to the New World. Today,
Clintons, Obamas and Bushes send soldiers and secularist tutors to “establish
democracy” among the “lesser breeds without the Law.”
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Unfortunately, the natives, once democratized, return to
their roots and vote for Hezbollah, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, using
democratic processes and procedures to re-establish their true God.
(*SMIRK*)
Allah is no democrat.
(*SILENCE*)
By suggesting he might not accept the results of a
“rigged election” Trump is committing an unpardonable sin.
* AT LEAST IN THE EYES OF THE ESTABLISHMENT. BUT...
THANKFULLY... NOT IN THE EYES OF "WE THE PEOPLE."
When Ben Franklin, emerging from the Philadelphia
convention, was asked by a woman what kind of government they had created, he
answered, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
This new cult, this devotion to a new holy trinity of
diversity, democracy and equality, is of recent vintage and has shallow roots. For
none of the three — diversity, equality, democracy — is to be found in the
Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers or the Pledge of
Allegiance. In the pledge, we are a Republic.
Among many in the silent majority, Clintonian democracy
is not an improvement upon the old Republic; it is the corruption of it.
(*NODDING*)
Consider: Six months ago, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe,
the Clinton bundler, announced that by executive action he would convert
200,000 convicted felons into eligible voters by November.
If that is democracy, many will say "to hell with
it."
(*NOD*)
In 1824, Gen. Andrew Jackson ran first in popular and
electoral votes. But, short of a majority, the matter went to the House. There,
Speaker Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams delivered the presidency to Adams —
and Adams made Clay Secretary of State, putting him on the path to the
presidency that had been taken by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Adams himself.
Were Jackson’s people wrong to regard as a “corrupt bargain”
the deal that robbed the general of the presidency?
* NOPE! THEY WERE RIGHT!
The Establishment recoiled in horror from Milwaukee
Sheriff Dave Clarke’s declaration that it is now “torches and pitchforks time.”
Yet some of us recall another time - a time when Supreme Court Justice William
O. Douglas wrote in “Points of Rebellion”: “We must realize that today’s
Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his
tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also
revolution.”
(*NODDING*)
Baby-boomer radicals loved Douglas' proclamation, raising
their fists in defiance of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. But now that it is
the populist-nationalist right that is moving beyond the niceties of liberal
democracy to save the America that they love, elitist enthusiasm for
“revolution” seems more constrained.
