Say No to Mob Rule

 
Years ago, Bob Saget hosted a game show on NBC called “1 vs. 100.”  The premise of the show involved a game show contestant and a “mob” of 100 people who would answer the same multiple choice questions.  Members of the “mob” who answered the questions incorrectly would get eliminated, with the contestant working towards the goal of eliminating the entire “mob.” At that point, the contestant would win the maximum prize of $1 million.  Should the contestant answer any question incorrectly, he or she would go home with nothing and the remaining members of the “mob” would split the winnings accumulated up to that point.  The “mob” would occasionally include some C-list celebrities such as Playboy playmates Nicole, Erica, and Jaclyn Dahm, and sex therapist Dr. Ruth Wertheimer.  After each question, Saget would ask the contestant “do you want the money or the mob?”  A contestant could leave with their winnings at any time in between questions but the second they answered a question wrong, they left with nothing.  

Saget began each game by informing the contestant: “this game is simple.  Either you’re going to win, or they’re going to win.”  The same phrase could easily apply to the 2018 midterm elections as well as all subsequent elections.  Unlike the “mob” on “1 vs. 100,” where the adversarial relationship between the “mob” and the contestant had no real malice behind it, the real life “mob” that has done its best to wreak havoc on America poses a much greater, much more serious danger to America.  

On the most recent edition of his Fox News program, Greg Gutfeld defined the mob as an “unbending beast in which intimdation is its only commodity.” He also emphasized that “the mob is defined by these things: subversion of justice, punishment without evidence, a willingness to discard individual rights and protections for immediate political gain.”

While it may seem like the ratio of normal people to mob members stands at one normal person for every 100 mob members, the actual ratio of mob members to everyone else actually measures out at one mob member for every one hundred Americans. The mob hopes that their “sound of rage” as described by Gutfeld will make it seem like they have a much more commanding influence on American everyday life than they actually do.  While most Americans living outside the big cities and college towns will rarely encounter the mob, the mob does possess an outsized amount of influence on American politics, it effectively holds elected officials in the Democratic Party hostage as they

work to cater to their every need or risk a large-scale temper tantrum.  

The real-life mob has a lot of money behind it. For an example of the mob, look no further than what happened to Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, who demanded a week-long FBI investigation into the vague, decades-old sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after an encounter with left-wing protesters in an elevator.  To no one’s surprise, except maybe Flake’s, these protesters have direct ties to George Soros, who funnels a lot of money into “mobs” advocating on behalf of the causes important to modern liberalism, especially abortion.

While Soros seems to have an infinite amount of wealth that he channels into policies that have, he has many allies in the fight to derail the nomination of Kavanaugh.  The group, “Demand Justice,” started by Former Hillary Clinton staffer Brian Fallon, committed to stopping whoever President Trump nominated to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Many Hollywood celebrities, who definitely don’t need any money from Soros, appeared in Washington, D.C. last week to make their opposition to the Kavanaugh nomination perfectly clear.  Two Hollywood celebrities, model Emily Rajatkowski and comedian Amy Schumer, found themselves among the roughly 300 protesters arrested by Capitol Police.

     
If nothing else, the threat of the liberal mob has succeeded in uniting the Republican Party.  Traditionally mild-mannered Republican Senator John Cornyn gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor indicating he had 100 percent had it with the bullying and intimidating tactics of the mob, proclaiming that “we will not be bullied by the screams of the paid protesters and name-calling by the mob.”  During an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised the Senate for deciding to “stand up to the mob and not be intimidated by these people” and “refusing to roll over under all this intense pressure, all these lies.” McConnell’s interview with Ingraham came less than 24 hours before the Senate narrowly voted to confirm Kavanaugh against the backdrop of some mob members in the Senate gallery screaming at the top of their lungs, causing Vice President Mike Pence to repeatedly call on the Sergeant-at-arms to restore order in the gallery.  Hours before the interview, the Senate had voted to invoke cloture, an important step in the confirmation process, by a margin of 51 to 49.  For those keeping score, American people 1, mob 0.  

The liberal mob has also awakened Senator Lindsey Graham, who has long enjoyed a reputation as easy-going and willing to work with the other side, to the “slimeball tactics” used by those on the other side of the aisle. As Graham put it, “whether you are a Trump Republican, a Bush Republican, a McCain Republican or a vegetarian, you are pissed.”  Former President George W. Bush, a critic of President Trump who once employed Kavanaugh as his staff secretary and appointed him to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006, made phone calls to moderate Republican Senators vouching for Kavanaugh’s character.

The advent of social media has only made the effect of the mob much more dangerous.  Public figures can never, ever escape the clutches of the mob. The Twitter mob immediately descended on Senator Susan Collins, the most moderate Republican in the Senate, after she announced that she would vote to confirm Kavanaugh; effectively ensuring his installation as the nation’s 114^th Supreme Court Justice.  Kathy Griffin, who had previously lost her gig as co-host of CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage after posting a picture of herself holding what looked like a severed head of President Trump, went on an angry tweetstorm after Collins announced her vote.  Griffin directed a quote from Madeleine Albright, “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,” at Collins before telling her to “go to hell.” Griffin made sure to retweet statements from other members of the liberal mob describing her as “lying, disingenuous trash,” and accusing her of feeling “morally obliged to eviscerate the victims of sexual assault.” The official Twitter account for “The Women’s March” posted a picture of Susan Collins with the caption “rape apologist.”  GQ Writer Sophia Benoit took a page out of Ted Kennedy’s playbook and tweeted out “If I ever die from having an illegal abortion, please drop my body off at @SenatorCollins house and let it rot.” 

Even before Collins announced her decision, the liberal mob had already donated $2 million to a crowd-funding campaign for her as of right now nonexistent opponent in her 2020 re-election campaign.  Liberal Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin had suggested putting pressure on L.L. Bean, based in her home state of Maine, to relocate if Collins supported Kavanaugh.

While Hillary Clinton called the idea of President Trump refusing to accept the results of the 2016 Presidential Election “horrifying,” many members of the mob clearly didn’t get the message.  They still have not gotten over the results of the 2016 election and it does not look like they will accept the results of the 2018 election should it manage to not turn out the way they planned.  Senator Sheldon Whitehouse already promised to look into investigating Kavanaugh the second the Democrats “get gavels.” Ranking Member on the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler has already indicated that the Democrats will launch an investigation into Kavanaugh if they retake the House. In such a scenario, Nadler would likely become the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. While Nadler and Whitehouse did not explicitly call for impeachment, far-left Democrats Ted Lieu and Luis Gutierrez have called on the House to begin impeachment proceedings should they find out that he lied about sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford.

  

 

If and when the Supreme Court with Kavanaugh on it issues decisions that #TheResistance mob doesn’t like, don’t expect them to accept the decisions the same way they demanded that conservatives accept decisions such as Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges as “settled law” and untouchable precedent.  As Ann Coulter pointed out, to liberals stare decisis means “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” They will immediately decry any decision with Kavanaugh in the majority as “illegitimate” the same way they see the Trump administration as illegitimate because of “Russian interference.”
 


With Kavanaugh on the Court, liberals will probably start protesting something else.  It wouldn’t come as much of a surprise if liberals do a lot of protesting today because it’s Columbus Day.  The liberal mob probably thought that fear, intimidation, and rioting would work in derailing the Kavanaugh nomination.  Unfortunately for them, it did not.  They have succeeded at the local level in replacing Columbus Day with “Indigenuous People’s Day” but they have failed to convince most Americans to completely abandon the holiday honoring the European explorer who effectively discovered the new world that the far left admonishes as a civilization built on the back of mass genocide, patriarchy, and white supremacy.

While Republicans appear to have benefitted from a so-called “Kavanaugh bump” at least for now, Republicans cannot become complacent.  Just like curiosity killed the cat, complacency may end up killing the country. When going to the polls four weeks from now, all voters have to keep in mind what President Trump said at a rally he held in Kansas over the weekend: “You don’t hand matches to an arsonist and you don’t give power to an angry left wing mob…and that’s what they’ve become.”  Voters should heed that warning or America will suffer the consequences.  As Bob Saget said, “This game is simple.  Either you’re going to win or they’re going to win.”  Moral victories don’t matter on Election Day.  Let’s make sure we win.  On November 6, say yes to the rule of the law and say no to mob rule.