The anarcho-democrats have destroyed America

For generations, and especially since 1945, a colossus has dominated the world through its influence – hard and soft power, cultural and financial, benevolent and malign – as the United States of America emerged from the isolation of its pioneering period to bestride the world stage.

Though often crude and alienating in its approach, sustained by the mighty dollar, even in the days when the nuclear-armed Soviet Union attempted to challenge American hegemony, that dominance, at least in security terms, was ultimately reassuring. America’s political culture became as familiar to the people of most nations as their own: the reverence for the flag, the pledge recited hand-on-heart, the enormous respect paid to the incumbent of the office of President – a title retained for life – and Commander-in-Chief.

All this was conscious, even contrived. America is not an organic polity that evolved historically, in the style of Britain. It was invented: a group of men sat around a table and devised a constitution and governmental institutions for the nation they were creating; true, some of those institutions had an organic descent from the preceding British tradition, but essentially the United States was a synthetic construct. That made it all the more important for the republican organs of governance that replaced the colonial settlement to be accorded deep-seated respect.

For more than two centuries that compact was observed, until it became so entrenched as to be thought immutable. What Americans most resented about Richard Nixon was not his aggressive policies, but the perception that he had tarnished the presidency, the institution long regarded as the guarantor of Americans’ rights and liberties. To avoid further contagion and as a form of damage limitation, Nixon received a pardon; he reciprocated by eventually rehabilitating himself through his China diplomacy.

The White House has been occupied not only by inspiring leaders, but by at least as many idiots, crooks and hypocrites. Yet, even when the incumbent was the subject of vicious lampoons and high unpopularity, the dignity and prestige of the presidential office was somehow maintained: it was an exercise in morally ring-fencing an unsuitable incumbent to protect the ideal of the institution – not dissimilar to the Renaissance papacy – in the national interest. It became second nature to Americans and it worked.

Until 4 April 2023, a date, to borrow Franklin Roosevelt’s words, which will live in infamy. This was the moral equivalent of 9/11: the great edifice that the Founding Fathers built and succeeding generations reinforced lies in smoking ruins. The presidency was the apex of the American constitution, but the obsessive hatred of the Democratic Party for Donald Trump, blinding it to all considerations of constitutional propriety and national morale, has destroyed the work of centuries. America today is lost. It has been deprived of its moral authority and global prestige by pygmies pursuing a vendetta of mind-boggling malevolence and triviality.

In the run-up to the indictment of Donald Trump, many observers – some of them even Democrats – voiced grave misgivings. “After this thing is done,” ran the common refrain, “it can never be undone. Nothing will be the same ever again.” Now, it has been done and, as predicted, nothing will ever be the same for America. The more extreme Democrats are trying to focus on the damage they imagine they have inflicted on Trump; the country is more focused on the damage they have inflicted on America, by bringing it into alignment with the banana republics where incarceration of an outgoing head of state is routine.

The Democrats have not shot themselves in the foot: they have shot themselves in the head. Among those who still retain a measure of rationality, that reality is beginning to sink in. On the almost universally Trump-hating media, it was instructive to note the demeanour of both the Democrats in the studios and the Democrat-supporting presenters. The dismay was pervasive, as they digested the weakness and absurdity of the indictment against Trump.

Borne up by the inflated claims of Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, the Democratic witch-hunters had been persuaded he had assembled a killer collection of serious felonies against Trump. This delusion was sustained by the legal process that kept the indictment sealed until Trump’s court appearance. When Bragg finally opened his Pandora’s Box, it proved a monumental anticlimax.

There is widespread professional consensus among lawyers that every one of those so-called felonies is no more than a misdemeanour, inflated by Bragg to bogus felony status. Yet Bragg is a “liberal” DA, with a record in the opposite direction, of reducing felonies to misdemeanours at a rate of 52 per cent. The first four counts are the same offence, profiled from different angles, as Bragg sought to heap up a mountain of charges technically threatening Trump with 136 years in prison. One raft of charges is identical to a misdemeanour for which Hillary Clinton’s campaign was quietly fined, with no media fanfare.

In television studios that are hives of Trump haters, such as CNN, the disappointment was palpable. That morning, Bragg had been a hero; by evening, having produced not a lion but a mouse, he was becoming the focus of almost as much Democratic resentment as Donald Trump. One commentator even predicted Bragg’s pot-pourri of trivial offences would not come to trial. The Democrats bet the farm on disgracing and, conceivably, imprisoning Trump; now it is evident they have debauched two of America’s greatest institutions, the presidency and the justice system, for no real gain.

Or, more likely, a catastrophic loss. Even allowing for the length of time between today and the end of the Republican primaries, there is no stopping Trump now. Ron DeSantis was never close enough to him in the polls to become the nominee. Now, Trump is a shoo-in as GOP presidential nominee. Ah, cry the more “sophisticated” Democrats, but that was the cunning plan all along: to ensure Trump became nominee, because we know we can beat him, as we did in 2020.

So, all this debasement of American public life was concerted by Democrats to arouse sympathy and support for Trump, so that they could give him a drubbing. Leaving aside the fact that Trump beat them in 2016, are we supposed to believe that the venomously Trump-hating Democrats have sufficient self-awareness to see their campaign of persecution as alienating to the American public? And, if so, would they not realize that the public would blame them for it and the concomitant degradation of the office of president? That is the kind of Macchiavellian politics that disappears up its own fundament.

In the four days preceding his arraignment, Trump’s campaign received $8m in donations. The self-deluding Democrats and their media cheerleaders both in America and Britain are working on the same hypothesis as in 2016: that, because they regard Trump as toxic, so does everyone else, except a small aberrant percentage of the population sporting MAGA baseball caps – the “deplorables”, in the words of Hillary Clinton, that paradigm of entitlement who so disastrously misunderstood the electorate.

By Tuesday evening, the realisation had dawned on Democrats that they had pulled down the pillars of the temple, for no perceptible gain, and might now be crushed under the crumbling edifice. They are now grubbing around for crumbs of comfort and justification. “Nobody is above the law,” parrot the leaders of a party that has set up sanctuary cities for the benefit of law-breakers, just as they persist in calling a violent protest at the Capitol an “insurrection”, despite their own extremist supporters setting Portland and other cities ablaze, to a cost of $2bn, in “mainly peaceful demonstrations”, as the media’s weasel vocabulary termed it.

There was also, among Democrats on Tuesday evening, a palpable curiosity to hear what Donald Trump would say in his speech broadcast from Mar-a-Lago. They hoped it would be lacking his usual vehemence, betraying that the day’s events had left him dispirited; they feared the opposite outcome, that it would mark the beginning of a savage counter-offensive to which they would be vulnerable, having abolished the last taboos and decencies of public life. The latter apprehension turned out to be justified.

It is fashionable in this country, as in blue-state America, to disdain Donald Trump and mock his idiosyncratic speech patterns, as if, like Joe Biden, he had nothing articulate to say. That is foolish, since Trump is speaking neither to Britain nor California, but to Joe Public in Main Street, Peoria. On this occasion he spoke to some purpose. His speech was slightly too long and, in its closing stages, lapsed somewhat into his discursive style; but the first 15 minutes were formidable.

With a more disciplined, forensic approach that suggested intensive briefing by his legal advisers, Donald Trump reviewed the history of the Democrats’ persecution of him, including two failed impeachments before the latest legal travesty. He looked at America’s global situation under the Biden administration, including the ignominious scuttle from Afghanistan. And so on: factual and prolific. By the end of those first 15 minutes, the conclusion, to any rationally minded person, was inescapable: this was the real indictment, of the real criminals destroying America.

It also contained signals that should bring fear to the hearts of Democrats. Since they, with this sham indictment of a former president, have torn up all the rules of engagement, the American Right will respond in kind. In particular, he signalled that the Right will not rest until the Biden family, with its laptops and large sums of Chinese (Chinese!) cash is fully investigated, including the President.

Trump was criticised for denouncing the Democratic party connections of the judge presiding over his case, who had warned him not to stir up unrest. The judge did not impose a gagging order because the notion of preventing a presidential candidate, while actively campaigning, from exercising his First Amendment rights to defend his reputation against accusations in court would provoke more unrest than any tweet from Donald Trump.

Earlier this week, the Democratic mayor of New York arrogantly singled out, by name, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene who was intending to attend the Trump hearing and warned her to “Be on your best behaviour.” That is the extravagant level of entitlement in suppressing free speech among conservatives that the Democratic party has arrived at.

Trump also pointed out that George Soros had funded the election campaign of Alvin Bragg. In fact, Bragg received more than $1m from the Color of Change PAC funded by Soros, at a time when Bragg had already boasted of having sued Trump “more than 100 times” while serving in the New York Attorney General’s office, repeating his burning ambition to “get Trump”. Looking at the milquetoast array of feeble charges in Bragg’s indictment, it is questionable whether Soros will feel he has got value for his money.

The Democrats have turned America into a crime-ridden, self-hating, polarised and dystopian society. In Oregon, the law prevents Christians from adopting children, as they would be likely not to affirm any gender change the child might embrace. In the home of free enterprise, Marxism now dominates all the major institutions. Now, the Democrats have debauched the greatest institution of all: the presidency.

For this, they expect to be rewarded with a second term of incumbency of the White House, because they believe they can beat Trump. And look at what he will be up against: a rambling dotard (“I applaud China – excuse me, I applaud Canada” was his latest gaffe). What will his cognitive condition be by the time of the election? Or what would it be at the end of a second term? Trump pointed out that America is closer to the threat of nuclear war than at any time in recent history and claimed credibly that it would have been different if he had remained in the Oval Office.

The Democrats have pursued an insane vendetta against Donald Trump. They tried to bring him down as a candidate; before the first television station had called the result in 2016 they were plotting his impeachment; they canvassed ever more fantastic plots, involving Russia and any other bogey they could conjure up, launching two ludicrous impeachment processes. Now, having debauched the congressional system, they have degraded the presidency and the justice system too.

How did America decline from a feared, but respected, superpower to a failed state? Democracy is on the retreat around the world and no wonder: who would want to imitate the squalid catastrophe enacted in New York this week? The Democrats have become a party of anarchists, consumed by hate to the exclusion of all other considerations and, like all nihilists, they have destroyed their patrimony, their culture and their country’s global reputation.

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