There's a basic deal that underlies the American Constitution: there are elections that are held every few years, and after they are over, the people -- ALL people -- accept the results. People never agreed to like the results, but we all agree by being American to ACCEPT the results. If we want to change things, we do that at the next election.
That's a simplistic rendering of the American concept of government. It was tested once beginning with the election of 1860 when 13 states seceded to form the Confederacy after Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans won election in that year. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, he was facing the loss of nearly half of the country that would not accept his victory. Now don't get me wrong. The Civil War that followed was not just a fight over Lincoln, although it was in part. Rather, that war was the result of what Lincoln and the GOP stood for and promised to achieve, namely the beginning of the end for slavery. After the death of over 2% of the population in that war, the Confederacy was defeated and the basic concept of our republic was reinstated.
Today, we are seeing a return to the rejection by many on the left of the American concept of government. Trump and the Republicans won in 2016. A great many Democrats just won't accept that. At first, they told us all that Trump didn't really win; the Russians stole the election. We watched the Mueller team spend 2 years and tens of millions of dollars to investigate that claim. It turned out that the claim was false. Russia didn't steal an election. Trump did not collude with Russia. In fact, much of the basis for that claim turned out to be a false dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democrat National Committee in order to launch a false attack on Trump. So at this point, in normal American parlance, Trump won and the Dems have to accept that fact.
Sadly, the Dems and the media have reached a point where they think that they are entitled to be in power despite the will of the people in the 2016 election. Mueller and his investigators said no collusion, but the Dems want more investigations by Congress of the same material. The point is to remove the President. With the failure of Mueller to find anything against Trump, other Democrats are launching all sorts of other investigations in order to try to oust Trump. In today's news, we hear about investigations by the highly political NY Attorney General who actually ran announcing that she would investigate the President. There's no crime being investigated; instead, a person is a target and she is using her office to look for wrongdoing. Imagine for a moment the reaction if a police officer were to stop a young man he didn't like and to search him for that reason alone. It would be an unconstitutional search. It would make anything found inadmissible, but more important, it would give the man a valid claim for intentional violation of his civil rights. We spent decades when these same people who are trying to illegally use their powers to "get" the President told us that any such use of power was wrong.
Look, America understands that the Dems and the media don't like the President. One would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to get that. Nevertheless, Americans should insist that our basic constitutional agreement remain in place. We have elections and the results are to be respected. We need our government to work towards the good of the nation. We cannot survive as America if a large portion of the country decides that it is owed power. People make that choice, and that has to be respected.
That's a simplistic rendering of the American concept of government. It was tested once beginning with the election of 1860 when 13 states seceded to form the Confederacy after Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans won election in that year. By the time Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, he was facing the loss of nearly half of the country that would not accept his victory. Now don't get me wrong. The Civil War that followed was not just a fight over Lincoln, although it was in part. Rather, that war was the result of what Lincoln and the GOP stood for and promised to achieve, namely the beginning of the end for slavery. After the death of over 2% of the population in that war, the Confederacy was defeated and the basic concept of our republic was reinstated.
Today, we are seeing a return to the rejection by many on the left of the American concept of government. Trump and the Republicans won in 2016. A great many Democrats just won't accept that. At first, they told us all that Trump didn't really win; the Russians stole the election. We watched the Mueller team spend 2 years and tens of millions of dollars to investigate that claim. It turned out that the claim was false. Russia didn't steal an election. Trump did not collude with Russia. In fact, much of the basis for that claim turned out to be a false dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democrat National Committee in order to launch a false attack on Trump. So at this point, in normal American parlance, Trump won and the Dems have to accept that fact.
Sadly, the Dems and the media have reached a point where they think that they are entitled to be in power despite the will of the people in the 2016 election. Mueller and his investigators said no collusion, but the Dems want more investigations by Congress of the same material. The point is to remove the President. With the failure of Mueller to find anything against Trump, other Democrats are launching all sorts of other investigations in order to try to oust Trump. In today's news, we hear about investigations by the highly political NY Attorney General who actually ran announcing that she would investigate the President. There's no crime being investigated; instead, a person is a target and she is using her office to look for wrongdoing. Imagine for a moment the reaction if a police officer were to stop a young man he didn't like and to search him for that reason alone. It would be an unconstitutional search. It would make anything found inadmissible, but more important, it would give the man a valid claim for intentional violation of his civil rights. We spent decades when these same people who are trying to illegally use their powers to "get" the President told us that any such use of power was wrong.
Look, America understands that the Dems and the media don't like the President. One would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to get that. Nevertheless, Americans should insist that our basic constitutional agreement remain in place. We have elections and the results are to be respected. We need our government to work towards the good of the nation. We cannot survive as America if a large portion of the country decides that it is owed power. People make that choice, and that has to be respected.
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