To the Right, Everything is Lexington and Concord Now
To the Right, Everything is Lexington and Concord Now
And the media isn't helping with constant talk of 'historic' and 'unprecedented' events.
By Charles P. Pierce
...From there, I had to wait for TV news to catch up, and the first place I went—and this may have been a result of my illness—was to the Fox News Channel, where hysteria reigned. For the first several hours (it being August, when nothing ever happens), we were treated to substitute anchors, young tyros fairly lusting after the main chance. Were I one of the regular anchors, I’d hire food tasters as soon as I get back to the office. These were lean and hungry types, and they eagerly tied into the programmed paranoia with their guests, who were appropriately outraged at the unprecedented events unfolding in Florida. Jonathan Turley continued his descent into the screaming void, where Alan Dershowitz is waiting for him, writing nasty letters of the editors of the Vineyard Gazette.
But the evening in Bedlam was mostly divided between warnings about—or, if you will, threats of—violent reaction and some bravura performances of Bad Analogy Theater. They played all the golden oldies. One of the ambitious young Foxsters referenced how “the Clintons stole $200,000” worth of furniture when they left the White House, a W-era canard that was debunked when the twerp was in diapers. Hunter Biden’s laptop got a serious workout on all sides. Eric Trump mentioned Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI!, as well as the old Uranium One business.
Eventually, however, the regulars were back. Hannity comforted Eric, who apparently was the only Trump on duty Monday night. Meanwhile, Laura Ingraham appeared to be on the edge of complete HIGH-sterics, as my mother would have said. Her dudgeon was joined at its lofty height by Mark Levin, and those two voices should never be allowed on TV at the same time. I’m not kidding. Their voices sterilized frogs in Manitoba....
This is an investigation into a possible federal crime. No legitimate aura of authority surrounds ex-presidents. The republic can survive the investigation, indictment and even the conviction of a former president, no matter what that old fool Gerry Ford thought back in 1974. But nothing permanent can be done about the reaction until someone or something knocks from a lot of heads the notion that every political defeat is Concord Bridge and that every pronouncement from their favorite TV news star is a message from Thomas Paine from beyond the grave. In 2016 (albeit with some help from abroad), the country elected a grubby little crook riding America’s longest lucky streak to be its president. Now the bill has come due.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a40848599/democracy-fbi-search-mar-a-lago/
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whining, "if they can do this to a former president, they can do it to you!!11"
Well, yeah. That's the point, isn't it? 
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