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Robert B. Reich was Bill Clinton’s labor secretary; since then he has been keeping busy teaching at Berkeley and gracing us all with his punditry on Twitter, where he has a million and a half followers. Reich has become notorious for his unhinged far-Left rants; on Monday, he showed yet again why he has gained a reputation as an upscale Keith Olbermann. In the UK’s neo-Stalinist Guardian, Reich called for Donald Trump to be barred from running for president again — to preserve what Leftists love to call “our democracy,” by which they mean their hegemony.
Why should the current Republican front-runner be barred from running? Reich says it’s because he “committed treason just over two years ago.” Reich complains that Trump is “running for re-election, despite the explicit language of section three of the 14th amendment to the constitution, which prohibits anyone who has held public office and who has engaged in insurrection against the United States from ever again serving in public office.”
The Fourteenth Amendment does indeed bar from the presidency, as well as from Congress, anyone who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” It was adopted in the aftermath of the Civil War, so as to prevent Southern states from sending former Confederates to represent them in Washington, and has become quite popular among Democrats today as a means they have tried to use to disqualify Republicans who don’t think the 2020 election was entirely free of chicanery.
Yet as beloved as this scenario is on the Left, and as often as Leftist talking heads repeat it on CNN and MSNBC, there are major problems with it.
One is that the claim that Trump “engaged in insurrection against the United States” is a Leftist talking point, not a fact. The events of Jan. 6, 2021, were studied minute by minute during Trump’s second impeachment trial, and then again by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Neither one resulted in Trump being charged with insurrection, much less convicted of it. Now, Merrick Garland’s appallingly corrupt and politicized “Justice” Department could change that at any moment, but after Tucker Carlson’s video footage exploded the Left’s Jan. 6 narrative, that case became exponentially harder to make.
Not only has Trump not been charged with or convicted of treason or insurrection, but no one else has, either. It’s a strange insurrection indeed, as it’s wholly lacking in insurrectionists. In fact, there was no insurrection at all on Jan. 6. Yet Reich presents Trump’s treason and the Jan. 6 “insurrection” as if they were both obvious and universally accepted, and wants him barred accordingly. Reich, in other words, wants to destroy our embattled republic completely in order to protect us from a man who supposedly committed treason against that republic.
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somehistory says
His name reminds of hitler, and his claims seem to indicate a liking for hitler.
Why not try nasty pelosi and chuckie schumer with treason? They stood before the public in front of the Supreme Court and threatened two Justices. Why are they not on trial, kicked from their seats of office and barred from running again?
And, on January 6, nasty pelosi threatened to punch a sitting president, saying she would “go to jail.” That is, at the very least, her second offense. Why is she not barred from holding office?
tgusa says
If the Biden cabal gets us in to a war Reich would make a great half pint human shield. But only for the shorter among us.
tgusa says
Has anyone else noticed that the democrats who have the least chance of surviving an apocalyptic world war have the biggest mouths when it comes to policy that might lead to just that?
Hrb says
IF there was another civil war this shit stick would be on a terminal list
Hrb says
IF there was another civil war this shit stick would be on a terminal list.