The Only Way

I really like Kurt Schlichter and his commentary. It is at once acerbic and so on target. Today's article entitled The Only Way To Restore The Norms Is To Finish Them Off is one of those things that, if you don't think about it for a minute, seems counter intuitive. But just as the old saying "If you want peace, prepare for war" is true and "A bully won't stop until you punch him in the nose," is true, so is Schlichter's assertion. We must inflict the same pain on the Left as the Left is inflicting on us, to make them stop. Right now, there are no consequences to their behavior, so of course it will continue to get worse and worse.

Conservatives whose reaction to the banana republic shenanigans of a leftist DA in a leftist city using a ridiculous perversion of the law to take out an enemy of the leftists is anything less than a desire to deal the pain right back are worse than useless. They are a menace. Their channeling of Kevin Bacon in “Animal House” empowers our enemies to ruin our country – and us. If you love the rule of law, if you want to bring back our precious norms and hold to our precious principles, then it’s time to go Full Truman and nuke ‘em ‘til they glow.

I note that Japan hasn’t gotten uppity since we tossed them a couple of hot rocks.And that’s what we need to do to the left.

Mutually assured destruction works. But the “mutual” part is just as important as the “destruction” part. When you don’t make it mutual, when your sissy rectitude reacts to them wrecking you by whimpering about how hypocritical they are, then it’s only us who get destroyed. And that does not work for me.

This is not to say that every red state functionary and Republican federal official needs to start lying and cheating like the Democrats do. That is what the Democrats are doing. I keep wondering why I get all these calls to be the law talking guy on media panels about this New Yor judicial clusterfark because it has nothing to do with law – this is essentially framing Trump. But we don’t need to do that. We do not need to frame them. They are already guilty. The Democrats are a disorganized crime family. They are all corrupt, really corrupt, not “Some money to settle a dizzy tramp’s sex claims got mischaracterized in the books” corrupt. And that makes them vulnerable.

The principle that Schlichter lays down here is one of self defense. Please note that the aggressor in the culture wars has always been the Left. They use words to claim to be the victim, but they are not. They are the aggressors. And while using lawfare against their lawfare may seem like taking vengence, in fact it is actually using force against force. We don't have to make stuff up, either. Their many crimes are on display for all to see. We just need to screw up enough spine to go after them. And no, it won't be easy. The odds are against us because the law profession is overwhelmingly Leftist. Or, as Chesty Puller put it: “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time” – Lewis B. Chesty Puller, USMC.

Some may also object on the basis that it is not nice to return evil for evil; that it is somehow not Christian. First of all, we are not saying to return evil for evil. These guys have committed actual crimes, and deserve to have themselves brought up on charges. Indeed, to fail to do so denies their dignity as people.  As to not being Christian, note that Christ was often "not nice." Look at how He treated the Chief Priests and Sadducees and the Pharisees, the Leftists of His day. He was not nice, calling them "vipers." His Father hates evil, and so does Christ because the Son and the Father are one.

Our side is always talking about law and order, but we keep getting judicially assaulted and these weakhearts are all about no bail and dismissing the charges. We need to punish our enemies so they learn that if they screw with us, they are getting it back twice as hard. And not just in criminal cases but in all aspects of our political struggle. We have to stop with this ridiculous idea that making your enemy pay is not a viable way of encouraging good behavior. It is the only way.