"It's really, really good," Rauner said as he drank chocolate milk. "Diversity!"If voters want farcical pandering to leftist ideals, they'll just vote for Democrats. Trump's whole platform is to reject the "false song of globalism." He rejects the whole premise of liberal political theory, and doesn't grant them perpetual home-field advantage by adopting their rules. That has been the real handicap of the right: to abide by the leftists' rules, or to abide by rules that even the leftists don't abide by. As we say here a lot, selectively enforced rules are merely tools of tyranny. Conservatives like to selectively enforce rules on themselves. How stupid! We categorize the left as engaged in cultural suicide, but the right isn't immune either.
When it comes to rules, there are really just three scenarios the can lead to civil outcomes. First, everyone obeys the rules. That is a high-trust society, which is what America used to be. Let's not pretend that's where we are today. Second is that the rules are enforced, and people obey not out of a principle, but to avoid punishment. That was American until so recently. If you had to put a date on when that era ended, a good bet would be Jim Comey's infamous presser of June 2016. That's when selective enforcement of US espionage laws became the official government policy. It remains to be seen if the the rule of law will be restored, but it seems increasingly unlikely that Jeff Sessions will have anything to do with it.
The third scenario is that obedience of rules break down entirely. If you find yourself i this environment, your only options are to opt out (if you can) or to beat your opponents so ruthlessly in the lawless state that they are forced to agree to rule enforcement for their own good. You don't want to fight dirty, and you make it so they don't want to either. Clearly that's where we're at today. I've said it a number of times here: if the Democrats who abused state power against political opponents aren't brought to justice, then Trump has no good choice but to do so himself. Otherwise, he is giving license to the Democrats to do it again once they regain power. If the rules are not enforced, he must make his opponents wish they were. Well, how about this tweet:
Trump rarely disappoints. If there's anyone who's not going to lay down and be steamrolled by injustice, it's him. Now, he's not threatening here, but you got to love where his head is. He's merely pointing out the hypocrisy of it. Well, he should be threatening it! He really should. A flippant tweet like maybe I'll fund a phony dossier to get a FISA warrant against my opponent in 2020 would send them scrambling, force them to decide whether what Trump proposes is okay, or what Obama/Clinton did was bad. He won't do it now, but after the midterms I expect him to come out firing from all barrels. We need to give him the ammo by really turning out for him in November. (I'll be doing my part to help flip Missouri's Senate seat.)
Another reassuring sign of the Republicans refusing to play the suckers game any longer is the recent testimony of Bruce Ohr before a closed-door joint session of Congress. The proceedings, highly damning to the Democrats and their Mueller coup, leaked like a sieve. Finally! Everyone knows the Democrats leak anything and everything that might give a political benefit. Nunes estimated that Adam Schiff leaked over a hundred times from his intel committee alone. So the Republicans are now returning the favor. Everything politically expedient should start leaking. The White House could really open the flood gates. Soon the Democrats would be begging for some responsible information security.
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