George Rebane
[This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 11 July 2018.]
President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the prestigious DC Circuit Court of Appeals to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Judge Kavanaugh is one of the most distinguished jurists in America with an impeccable resume and over 300 scholarly legal opinions, 11 of which have been adopted by SCOTUS into their rulings. He is also clearly acceptable to the man he will replace, since he served as a law clerk for Justice Kennedy.
Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination is, of course, hailed by the Republicans and all Americans who value his strict constitutionalist credentials. The man agrees with the Founders that laws should be made by Congress and not in the judicial branch, whose job it is to adjudicate the application of existing law. Kavanaugh’s confirmation will deny, for at least a generation, the recent use of our courts to make laws that Congress would not pass or be signed by the President. And overnight that has made him the most despicable enemy of the Left, perhaps, second only to Donald Trump who surprised everyone by being elected President of the United States.
To many of us this nomination and the upcoming confirmation battle represents a milestone in the ongoing destruction of national comity. The Left has now redirected its perennial attack on this administration by focusing its energies to deny Judge Kavanaugh, with the battle cry issued by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer who yesterday promised, “I’m going to fight the Kavanaugh nomination with everything I’ve got.” And his ‘everything’ has become the immediate call to all Democrats ranging from moderate, through the alt-Left, to communist bands marching in the streets with hammer & sickle flags. These are the dedicated worthies whose shout is ‘No Trump, No Wall, No USA at all!’,
This is reinforced by Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee, who points to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the “future of the Democratic Party”. Self-avowed socialist Ocasio-Cortez, who recently won the Democrat primary in Queens calls herself a democratic socialist, and purports to be the new face of the Democratic Party. In that pivot she is joined by other Democrats such as Cynthia Nixon running for New York governor, and, of course, the established socialist stalwarts, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Other Democrats stand ready to board that train or, unannounced, are already on it.
Meanwhile Democratic Party leaders like Nancy Pelosi warn the country that “Civilization as we know it today is at risk in this election.” And former DNC chair and governor Terry McAuliffe tells us, “The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh will threaten the lives of millions of Americans for decades to come …” Meanwhile, leftwing organizations such as the National Women’s Law Center have rushed into print obvious lies like Justice Kavanaugh “believes the President is above the law”.
All of this is the latest and perhaps penultimate chapter of the Left’s anti-Trump national narrative. Most likely half the country does not believe this extremely divisive screed now erupting against Judge Kavanaugh. But if you’re a Democrat listening to this, why do you think that your party’s national leadership is telling you these things that they know not to be true? Do they really think that you are ignorant enough to believe America is at a tipping point to tyranny with the Kavanaugh nomination? However, if enough of you do believe this, then we really are facing a crisis of governance, because then we are definitely no longer one people under the same Constitution “with liberty and justice for all.”
More soberly, we recall that civilization, as we know it, truly was at risk during WW2 and the ensuing Cold War, with powerful totalitarian regimes seeking to fundamentally transform the world. And now the Democratic leadership and its core are telling us that we are there again. Their emerging solution is to abolish capitalism so as to make the world safe for socialism – a form of governance that, without the support of other people’s free market capitalism, has never ended well.
My name is Rebane, and I also expand on this and related themes on Rebane’s Ruminations where the transcript of this commentary is posted with relevant links, and where such issues are debated extensively. However, my views are not necessarily shared by KVMR. Thank you for listening.
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