https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-american-politics-will-be-depolarized_4619441.htmlConrad Black: How American Politics Will Be Depolarized
by Conrad Black
July 25, 2022
NOTE: when reading articles at The Epoch Times, DISABLE JAVASCRIPT in your browser. This can be done with the click of the mouse using free add-ons/extensionsExcerpt:The judiciary showed its institutional conservatism when it uniformly declined to entertain litigation that could overturn the result of the presidential election. This too is an American tradition going back to Democratic presidential candidate Samuel Tilden’s acceptance in 1876 of the improbable victory of his opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, in exchange for several post-electoral actions that accelerated the reintegration of the South into the Union.
Richard Nixon had similar thoughts, though he’s rarely credited with them, when he declined formally to challenge the questionable results of the 1960 presidential election, as something that would be irreparably damaging to the country. (Trump should never have approved Rudolph Giuliani’s ill-considered trick-or-treat election challenges.)
Trump hasn’t been so scrupulous, but he also feels he has been much more brazenly robbed. The Democrats and Never Trumpers would be complacently unconcerned if the administration they promoted had been competent. Instead, the Obaman drift to the left, without that president’s suavity and generally good judgment of the public mood, has become a lurch to the far left, for which there’s no mandate and which has been a total failure.
As this shambles becomes clearer, it also becomes clearer that the only way to stop the return of the dread Trump is to render him unelectable. This is the real motivation of the ludicrous and disgraceful kangaroo court of the congressional January 6 committee and of the ant-like movements of the Atlanta district attorney (Fani Willis) to find criminal wrongdoing by Trump in his challenge to the Georgia election results in 2020.
This should bring us to the other guardrail of American public life: Trump broke no laws in the last election and any attempt to prosecute him on such charges will be seen, particularly when they are thrown out despite the American prosecutors’ obscene 98 percent success rate, as a savage and corrupt assault on democracy. If God’s blessing is still on America, the prosecutors will line up with the judges: they declined to consider overturning an election, and the prosecutors would make a terrible mistake if they try artificially to remove a presidential candidate.
The horrifyingly obnoxious caricature of Trump that has been created is false, but like most caricatures, has an element of truth. The current uncivilized state of American politics will be resolved by electing Trump or a candidate endorsed by him to carry out the Trump program. It worked, and was ratified by a Republican gain of 20 congressmen in 2020, and it will be ratified again in November.
Neither the pathological opposition to one candidate nor the unsustainable incompetence of the current administration can continue much longer.
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