Threatening to Prosecute Your Opponents When They Give Up Power Is a Bad Idea.. Kurt Schlichter

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Threatening to Prosecute Your Opponents When They Give Up Power Is a Bad Idea
Kurt Schlichter


All the Democrats out there announcing that as soon as they get power, they're going to use the full weight of government to prosecute anybody who had anything to do with the Donald Trump administration reminds me of a historical analogue. They won't recognize it because most of them don't believe that history started until 1619, or maybe when Barack Obama got elected, and anything occurring before then was just dead white men doing dead white men stuff that doesn't matter. But you know, it totally matters whether they like it or not.

So, there was once this guy, and he was a future dead white man, but go with me on this anyway. His name was Julius Caesar – you may have heard of him, or you may have gone to public school and one of our prestigious colleges, and therefore, you don't know who he was. Well, he was a Roman nobleman without much money to start, but he was smart and a very good general, and he accumulated a lot of power, both political and military. In doing so, he made many enemies, especially among the establishment. Anyway, he decided he was going to go to Gaul – that's France, before all they did was make cheese and surrender – to conquer it. As a proconsul, a kind of governor/general, he had what was called "imperium" – the power to rule – and a bunch of legions to go with it. And boy, did those legionnaires ever conquer. They did not use their words. They used their swords. It was all very manly. And they didn't have any Twitter lawyers telling them they were committing war crimes by winning. We have much to learn from the Romans, and no wonder real men think of them several times a day.

Anyway, as their commander, Caesar got very, very rich and very, very powerful. So far, so good. Well, his enemies back in Rome began to get nervous because he was a political threat to them, so they began to demand that he put down his imperium and return to Rome. Now, one of the many nice things about being a proconsul is that a proconsul is immune to prosecution. But as soon as Caesar gave up his imperium, well, it was open season on him in the courts his enemies controlled, and they made no bones about it. They were going to prosecute him and either impoverish and exile him or outright kill him.

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Both sides do it now no?

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Good piece.

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A very good piece by Kurt.
Here's a little more:
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...these threats to immediately prosecute Republicans, not for committing crimes but for embracing policies that the Left doesn't like, can't be ignored. This isn't justice. They don't even make a case for it being justice. It's pure power. The problem with pure power is that, as their own team in the form of Chairman Mao used to say, power comes out of the barrel of a gun. At the end of the day, if you want to rule by power, you'd better have most of the guns. As citizens, we do. That's why they placed their hope into weaponizing our armed forces against us – remember Grandpa Badfinger babbling about using F-16s to bomb patriotic Americans? Why do you think the Left is so desperate to prevent Pete Hegseth from finishing his work turning the Pentagon from a petri dish of bizarre social pathologies back into a military organization? The Left tried to shape the officer corps through the power of DEI and selecting for the socialist-inclined – you need to understand that active-duty senior officers are not usually conservative in the sense that we're conservative, but are often big-government socialists who believe in telling the people what they want rather than listening to them. This is why they're terrified of Pete Hegseth. He's promoting warfighters instead of civil war fighters, guys the Left could rely on to be there to help when the color revolution comes. Do you think for one minute Mark Milley wouldn't have turned the Army on us for being uppity?

Yeah, I know, that's crazy talk, which is crazy, and stop being crazy, you crazy guy. But then again, I'm not the one out there threatening to prosecute anybody who participates in any policy that the Democrats don't like. I'm just the guy who notices. Luckily, the Trump administration has noticed too, and it's not playing along. It's not giving in. It's not backing down. Nor should we as citizens play along, give in, or back down. Our enemies are evil, but they're also stupid, and they don't understand human nature, nor do they know history. They somehow think that they can intimidate us and shame us into submission, into giving up our right to participate in our own governance and allowing them to rule over us in perpetuity. That's not going to happen. That's not in the cards. They're playing a very dangerous game.