By Biden’s illogic, the assault on the Capitol was an assault on democracy, but the assault on the Supreme Court is the essence of democracy.
Political hypocrisy is nothing new, but President Biden and Congressional Democrats have been especially two-faced, and on things that really matter, such as assaults on our political institutions and the integrity of our democracy.
Biden, of course, came into office promising to restore “unity.”
“We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors,” he piously intoned in his Inaugural Address. “We can treat each other with dignity and respect.
We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage.
True words these. Yet when, this past week, “progressive” Democrats launched a brazen assault on the Supreme Court for its apparent decision to overturn a false and fabricated Constitutional right to abortion, Biden was silent and accommodating of the political arsonists and assailants.
Here, bitterness, fury, and exhausting outrage are understandable and completely permissible. And, far from lowering the temperature, we instead should turn up the heat until our entire Constitutional order (or at least the judiciary) burns to the ground.
Targeting the Justices. Think I’m exaggerating? Think again. Angry, “progressive” agitators have published the home addresses of six “extremist justices” whom they have targeted for harassment.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has charged the Court with composing a “monstrous draft decision” that “assaults” the Constitution.
“We gotta be a menace to our enemies, and our enemies is anybody that’s attacking our reproductive freedom.,” declared one angry protester.
As a result of this incendiary rhetoric, notes the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, “a violent act by a fanatic can’t be ruled out… Federal law,” it adds, “makes it a crime to threaten federal judges, and that includes threats of vigilantism.”
But instead of calling for calm and understanding, the President has been solicitous of the “progressive” or radical left. “The president’s view,” explained White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
is that there’s a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness from many, many people across this country about what they saw in that leaked document [aka the draft Supreme Court opinion].
We obviously want people’s privacy to be respected. We want people to protest peacefully if they want to protest. That is certainly what the president’s view would be.
January 6 Riot. Of course, President Trump, too, made the obligatory, pro forma nod to a “peaceful protest” January 6, 2021.
And of course, Mr. Biden and Congressional Democrats never called for understanding the passion, fear, and sadness of the January 6 protesters who instigated a riot on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Instead, they have said ad nauseam that the January 6 riot—which, by their definition, includes the events that led up to January 6—was an “insurrection” that “threatened our democracy.”
In other words, the assault on the Capitol was an assault on democracy, but the assault on the Supreme Court is the essence of democracy. Heads we win; tails our political opponents lose.
Everybody’s equal but some are more equal than others. Some are worthy and some are, as Hillary Clinton infamously put it during the 2016 presidential campaign, “deplorable” and unworthy.
Feature photo credit: Screenshot of President Biden speaking to reporters, May 3, 2022, courtesy of CNBC.