Without the Constitution, We Are Not Exceptional At All

 Today at Townhall.com Kurt Schlichter has an article entitled The Coming of Strong Man Populism and the Power of "No!" Schlichter's thesis is that just as the communist and socialist excesses of the Obama administration brought the Trump administration into being, so the even worse excesses of the * administration will bring about a Strong Man. And this time, he predicts, heads will roll, figuratively speaking.

Get ready for Strong Man Populism. The bad guys - the soft elite who think it can hold onto the societal power it inherited, but did not earn, through petty oppressions - will call it “authoritarianism.” Of course, they like authoritarianism when they are the authority - that’s why they feel no compunction about remaking our country and culture without bothering with obtaining our buy-in. But history teaches - not that they would know it, because they have never been taught it - that a backlash is inevitable.

We’re going to turn to someone who won’t be deterred by cultural caterwauling, who will not be satisfied with a status quo ante that is deeply anti-American, who will ruthlessly use his power to reclaim our society for us, and who will wreak vengeance on our enemies.

Ironically, I heard someone on the "news" today saying that Cubans are rising up because their country is so corrupt. Is he kidding? Has he not looked at Hunter Biden selling his "art" for $500,000 a pop? Hunter is no artist, and this is clearly him selling access to his father, again. Then there are all the past corruptions from "Fast and Furious" to Hilary's emails, to the stolen election of 2020, all of which went without anyone even being charged. The Left fights every attempt to audit the election.  they characterize election integrity measures as somehow racist.  Oh, and what of the Durham investigation? Anything? No? The fact is that this country is incredibly corrupt. What do they think might happen here if they see the Cubans as revolting against corruption?

Strong Man Populism will come, and dumb people will find this ironic, because we are, at heart, still a free people unwilling to merely survive on scraps as serfs. Oh, some of us are eager drones - the lazy, the stupid, the morally illiterate who empower the mutants against us, or who sit on their moms’ couches playing video games. But the rest of us are getting fed up. We can’t be free when we are cowering in our homes, unable to speak, with our interests left undefended. We will take our freedom back, at the ballot box, because our failed ruling class has, well, failed.

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Our establishment scoffs at laws, everything from election rules to regulations against spying on citizens who oppose the regime. At the same time, it lets street criminals run rampant. The law enforcement agencies do nothing, the media does nothing, and the courts do nothing. But when we break their laws, watch out - especially you LEGO insurrectionists.

Our voices are silenced, we have no institutional advocates; the institutions designed to vindicate our rights won’t. That limits our options going forward to opting for submission - that’s the aptly-named David French solution - or opting to burn it all down.

I say flick the Bic.

Despite the incessant braying about "our democracy," the fact is that our governing system is a republican form of government, not a democracy. It has worked for over 200 years. But if we do not soon begin to clean up our system, and prosecute the corrupters with long prison sentences we will lose the republic, and with it the freedoms and liberties that have allowed the United States to enjoy a higher standard of living than any other. But make no mistake, the standard of living is a result of the Constitution and the liberties it demands. Without it, we are not exceptional at all.  But the * administration is trying to nullify these liberties and freedoms.

Please read all of Schlichter's piece.