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The TV news last night showed stores across the country boarding up their windows in anticipation of election results. We all know which side is going to riot if they lose.
Hear! Hear! Beautifully said, Hank.
Rioting and looting is not surprising. Standing down from enforcing the law by elected leaders is a disgrace. This is why businesses are boarding up.
Ahhh. The good old days of 2008. I remember those days too. We had a 44-0 record of peaceful transitions before 2016. A perfect record! That was something to be proud of, for people that choose to feel pride in anything associated with ‘Merica.
That tradition was violated throughout the period from Nov 9, 2016 to the present.
One wonders how this will be accomplished:
It probably depends on the best way to get to this:
That’s the $15/hr minimum wage, banning right to work laws nationwide, restoring the state and local tax deductions. and multiple bailouts for fiscally irresponsible Democrat state and local jurisdictions.
Also comprehensively dismantling the Trump tax cuts.
I don’t think that I’d count 1861 as a peaceful transition of power. Other than that, we’ve done very well, up to and including 2016.
Yes, I know. I didn’t say a perfect, unbroken record, I said a tradition. [ Update: Ah, but I see that you’re responding more to DonG than to me. Yes, Democrats set a bad example in 1861. Let’s hope they do better tomorrow. ;) ]
Not to nitpick, but there was a bit of rough going during the peaceful transition of March 1861.
That one was still playing out four years later also.
The gradual usurpation of the voting system by state election boards culminating in what we see now does not allow me to view this election as a valid one. I don’t see how a peaceful transfer of power is even logical.
I walked around downtown this afternoon to watch the wood go up over the glass. Block after block of boarded up stores and office buildings.
You can see the prep here, if you wish.
Daughter said some people at work expressed fears that the Proud Boys would riot, but I don’t think they really believed it. Everyone knows who the likely actors will be. I mean, everyone knows that if Trump loses, no crowd will surge from Lafayette Square to storm the White House, but it is entirely possible that leftists will do exactly that if Trump declares victory. The soft-handed men typing away in small rooms in big cities are hoping there’ll be violence:
The amusing thing is that this guy thinks he’s important enough to be killed in the third wave of guillotining, when he’s definitely second-wave material.
I usually think that everyone must know. Then I bump into an otherwise sensible seeming person who thinks the problems are mostly on the right. What do you do with that, if you’re a thoughtful person inclined to self-reflection, but not blind to what your own eyes and half a century of experience tell you?
You stare into the abyss, is what you do. And you wonder how we’ll ever bridge it. And then you decide we don’t have to bridge it. We just have to win.
I fully agree with your first paragraph:
“America has a tradition of orderly and peaceful transfer of power. I fully expect my side — the right — to respect that, regardless of what happens this week. We on the right tend, after all, to be respectful of tradition, and this is one of our great traditions.”
The Rule of the Law and the peaceful transition of power is the perhaps the greatest contribution that our nation has to offer the world.
I love your post and it is worth saving and printing out, because it’s worth remembering not just today, but for the future. Newt Gingrich had a good article with Lincoln quotes that are very appropriate for today:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-lincoln-mobs-newt-gingrich
Is this otherwise sensible person able to explain to you why those on the right creating most of the problems are allowed to do so without being arrested by city and state Democrat administrations? It has even been documented that in the few cases where they have been arrested, no charges have been filed or where bail has been required it has been provided by organizations of the Left.
These rioters and looters are not The Proud Boys.
Henry, if you could have run Trump’s campaign I think polls would have looked much different leading up to today, and I could have voted for the President with less internal conflict. You summed up the best Trump can be, and wish it could be the one I see more often.
Wait until you’ve spent forty years voting for people who don’t do anything for you or keep their words, but actually let the things they promised and the very positions they held slide into the abyss. Then you may see men like Trump stand out in a better light.