Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Victor Davis Hanson column: Our upside-down postelection world | Columnists | richmond.com

Victor Davis Hanson column: Our upside-down postelection world | Columnists | richmond.com
"After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. 
Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones?
  • Media cross-examination of the president now is an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone. Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a crook when you can focus on his favorite flavor of milkshake or compliment him on his socks?...
  • Impeaching a first-term president after his first midterm election — on a strictly partisan vote, for political reasons other than the U.S. Constitution’s “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” — now is a terrible idea.
  • Worse would be to appoint a special counsel to harass a president on unfounded charges of collusion with China. An even scarier notion would be a conservative dream team of partisan lawyers hounding President Joe Biden — using a 22-month, $40 million blank check.
  • It would be unprofessional for university psychologists and physicians from a distance to diagnose, in pop fashion, the mental faculties of a President Biden.
  • Certainly, there never would be talk about U.S. Department of Justice officials contemplating wearing a wire as part of an entrapment scheme to remove a President Biden through the 25th Amendment. That almost would constitute a coup attempt.
  • Almost as bad would be for the holdover FBI director to start “memorializing” his private conversations with Joe Biden on FBI devices...
  • What happened to the Logan Act?...
To keep track of our brave new American world is easy.
Just consider everything said to be bad by the “Animal Farm” media before Nov. 3 as now good. 
And remember that everything said to be good two months ago is now actually bad."...Read all, much here!

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