It’s illiberal for liberals to accuse Biden critics of treasonBy David Harsanyi
February 23, 2022
It is deeply illiberal to accuse those who criticize the president of treason. It’s un-American. It is, in fact, the kind of rhetoric that exists in tyrannies.
Yet numerous liberals have accused those critical of Joe Biden’s impotent handling of the Ukrainian crisis of sedition.
Harvard prof Laurence Tribe, a favorite of the “resistance” — back when dissent was still patriotic — recently argued that Fox News host Tucker Carlson and other Republicans he claims are praising Russian President Vladimir Putin have provided “aid and comfort” to an “enemy” and thus would meet the definition of “treason” under Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution.
Reacting to a House GOP tweet censuring Biden for “weakness,” one-time Republican Michael Steele stated, “This is what disloyalty at home looks like.” Jennifer Rubin, the White House’s favorite columnist, contended that every Republican needs to decide: “Are you on team Trump/Putin or team US/democracy. You cannot be both.”
Those, of course, aren’t the two teams. Americans do not owe Joe Biden — or Donald Trump, Barack Obama or George W. Bush — any loyalty. The right to political dissent is a hallmark of healthy liberalism. And disparaging elected officials is the God-given right of every American.
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Indeed, when the Trump administration abandoned the Iran deal, not only did the opposition party widely condemn the president; Democrats like former Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) secretly met with officials from Iran, a nation actively funding terror groups and targeting Americans (and Jews) worldwide, to undermine the administration.
But, as usual, we are expected to live by two standards.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/23/its-illiberal-for-liberals-to-accuse-biden-critics-of-treason/
