Message From #TheResistance: Side With Trump At Your Own Risk

After watching the character assassination that Brett Kavanaugh has had to go through as he awaits a seat on the Supreme Court, a very obvious question arises: Who else would want to go through that?  Even if the Democrats do successfully derail the confirmation of Kavanaugh, someone at some point will have to fill that seat.  President Trump had assembled a lengthy list of jurists he would select from when filling Supreme Court vacancies.  It would not come as much of a surprise if that list just got a lot smaller.  If President Trump ever calls anybody else on that list to tap them as his Supreme Court pick, many of them would probably pick up the phone and say “thanks but no thanks.  I don’t want to get dragged through the mud.”  Kavanaugh himself already warned that would happen in his letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee where he made the obvious point that “such grotesque and obvious character assassination – if allowed to succeed – will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service.”  President Trump worried about the logical conclusion of the Kavanaugh fiasco at his press conference at the United Nations, where he said “I don’t want to be in a position where people say no thanks, no thanks” when it comes to becoming one of his Supreme Court nominees.

No matter what, Republicans can’t win because of their razor-thin Senate majority.  President Trump picked Brett Kavanaugh knowing that some Republicans, such as Rand Paul, did not like some of his rulings during his 12-year run on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.  It looked like nearly every Senate Republican would have voted for Kavanaugh until the circus of decades-old sexual assault allegations began, which concluded with America’s Lex Luthor, Michael Avenatti, bringing forth a woman accusing Kavanaugh of acting as a perpetrator at several “gang rape” parties in the 1980s.  Had President Trump picked Amy Coney Barrett, a mother of seven who the left would have had a harder time lobbing sexual assault allegations against, he would have alienated the pro-choice squishes in the Senate.  With only 51 seats at the present moment, Republicans literally cannot afford to alienate any Senator. 

The far left has done its best to send a message to individuals who either work for President Trump or support President Trump.  Working for President Trump means that you can expect the far-left to confront and harass you at a Mexican restaurant until you decide to throw in the towel and leave. Secretaty of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen knows what that feels like.  Supporters of President Trump, such as Senator Ted Cruz and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi have also faced the wrath of #TheResistance as they attempted to enjoy a night on the town. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who has become the face of #TheResistance, specifically instructed people to wage guerilla warfare on the Trump administration: “if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anywhere anymore.”

While Waters will soon have to pass the baton to the next generation, that doesn’t mean that the radicalism she espouses will ride off into the sunset.  Ian Millhiser of “ThinkProgress” sent out a tweet echoing the rhetoric used by Waters earlier this year: “tell me again why we shouldn’t confront Republicans where they eat, where they sleep, and where they work until they stop being complicit in the destruction of our democracy.”  Millhiser sent out the tweet in response to Republican Senator Jeff Flake’s decision to call for an FBI investigation after dealing with screaming left-wing protesters in an elevator.     

Not surprisingly, the legal community, which sadly overlaps with #TheResistance in many cases, has also attempted to send a message to those who dare to affiliate with President Trump. For an example of this, look no further than what happened to Paul Manafort, an experienced political operative who managed the Trump campaign going into the 2016 Republican National Convention when it looked like President Trump would need somebody to “round up” delegates in order to prevent a contested convention a la what almost happened in 1976.  Manafort has a long resume in Republican politics dating back to the days of Gerald Ford; he worked on the Trump campaign for about four months.  As soon as President Trump found out about Manafort’s connection to a former pro-Russian Ukrainian President, he removed Manafort from the campaign and brought in Kellyanne Conway, who helped carry the underdog Presidential campaign over the finish line.

The prosecutors associated with the never-ending Mueller investigation raided Manafort’s home in the middle of the night.  Manafort undoubtedly committed some crimes completely unrelated to his relationship with President Trump and his presidential campaign.  The punishment for the crime of tax fraud far exceeded the average sentence for the crime, which adds up to one year and three months. They only threatened Manafort with such a stiff 305-year sentence because they wanted him to “flip” on President Trump.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The political establishment, which also far too frequently overlaps with #TheResistance, has decided not only to make life difficult for those associated with Trump but also Trump himself.  Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo said as much during an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” where he spoke of a “punishment strategy” designed to deter anti-establishment candidates like Trump from running again.  Caputo advised people not to work on a Republican political campaign unless they receive compensation for any legal fees that may come out of it.  Investigators have effectively bankrupted Caputo in an effort to get information out of him related to President Trump’s ties to Russia.   

All of the left-wing hate mentioned in this article presents a preview of coming attractions of what America will look like if the Democrats regain one or both Houses of Congress this fall.  While Republicans definitely have a right to be mad at Republican Senators, keep in mind that Senators who do not have to run for re-election this fall are holding Senators and Senate candidates who do have to run for re-election or election this fall hostage.  The fifty-one vote Republican majority does not translate into a conservative, America First majority; as demonstrated by the decision of Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Jeff Flake to support a week-long FBI investigation into the extremely vague allegations against Kavanaugh by Silicon Valley-based Professor Christine Blasey Ford despite the fact that all of the witnesses involved have said that they do not remember any such event taking place. 

Everyone knows the real reason why the Democrats want the FBI investigation; it has nothing to do with figuring out what happened 36 years ago.  If they really cared about what happened 36 years ago, they would have started this “investigation” two months ago; Senator Feinstein first became aware of Ford’s allegations in early July. She had multiple opportunities to bring up the allegations; for example, she could have addressed them while meeting with Kavanaugh one-on-one or she could have brought them up during the confirmation hearings.  She instead elected to bring them up after the confirmation hearings have concluded.  Another week will give them more time to dig for more dirt on Kavanaugh, as if they haven’t done enough damage to him and his family already.   It will take the election of at least three or four additional Republican Senators in order to cement a conservative majority in the United States Senate, where the Democrats can whine all they want but they will not have the numbers to derail any conservative Supreme Court nominee or lower court judge in the future.  They can thank Harry Reid for that; he abolished the filibuster for the lower courts while Mitch McConnell picked up where he left off and abolished the filibuster for the Supreme Court.

The Democrats have committed to giving the Alinsky treatment to anyone who threatens to get in the way of the implementation of the agenda invisioned in George Soros and Gloria Steinem’s Mirror of Erised; which has already materialized to some degree, thanks in large part to the judicial branch.  When the topic of the “long march through the institutions” comes up, the media, Academia, and Hollywood immediately come to mind.  The courts serve as the one area where the conservatives have actually had some success (in the past two years) in reversing the damage of the “long march through the institutions.”  The Democrats spent President George W. Bush’s entire first term filibustering all of his judicial nominees they saw as slightly to the right of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. President Trump has already done an enormous job when it comes to putting solid conservatives on the Federal courts, he has appointed more than one out of every eight judges on the Federal appellate courts, in addition to more than three dozen judges on the district courts. 

They probably hoped that all of the abuse they have given Judge Kavanaugh would have convinced him to quit by now.  Judge Kavanaugh has apparently made the decision that the lyrics of the Steve Miller Band song “Jet Airliner,” “you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven” apply to his quest to sit on the nation’s highest Court, which serves as “heaven” for the purposes of this analogy. He made his commitment to taking the media and Democratic Party-orchestrated beating quite clear in his letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee as well as during his testimony before the committee on Thursday.  In the letter, Kavanaugh told the Judiciary Committee “I will not be intimated into withdrawing from this process.  The coordinated effort to destroy my good name will not drive me out.  The vile threats of violence against my family will not drive me out.  The last-minute character assassination will not succeed.”

Prosecutors, far-left protesters, and Democratic Senators, acting on behalf of #TheResistance, have sent a very clear message to Trump administration officials and Trump supporters: side with the President at your own risk.  Siding with President Trump or Republicans in general puts at risk of bankruptcy, round-the-clock harassment, and unprecedented character assassination and slander. All voters who care about due process and reject the radical tactics of the far left can send a message right back to #TheResistance by voting for Republicans this fall: “No thanks. We’ll pass.”