Give the Democrats their blanket pardon, it will screw them up in the end

The old adage that without double standards, liberals would have no standards at all dates back decades, at least to the 1960s. While it has evolved to be more concise, it is no longer accurate – Democrats do not have double standards; they no longer have standards for themselves.

If there is a limit to what a Democrat can do before his own party criticizes them, it will remain a mystery for the ages. Okay, if they lose an election, they can be criticized, at least if claiming the election was stolen doesn’t apply.

Otherwise, nothing is too crazy for the left. The CEO of a health insurance company is murdered on the streets of New York City, and the left’s first reaction is that he deserved it because some people weren’t getting care. Were they, and were they denied to his company? I have no idea, but no one is celebrating this man’s murder either. They just know that health insurance is expensive, and sometimes people don’t get coverage – they’ve seen movies about it – so anyone involved must be bad. It is okay to do evil to someone who is doing evil themselves, or so the “logic” goes.

If you believe them, Democrats are terrified of the prospect that the new Trump administration will treat them like they treated people from the first Trump administration. Terrified is the wrong word; they’re not really afraid, they just don’t want to. The ‘Golden Rule’ is more subtle when it comes to the left.

What worries them is that the power of government is being turned against them, as New York Attorney General Letitia James campaigned to investigate then-President Donald Trump to see if he had done anything wrong. The Democrats welcomed this because they hate Trump. They cheered that laws were literally changed and created to go after him. Who would want to live with what hangs over them?

But Democrats are not (now) claiming that what they did to Trump was wrong (although Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania admits it was political); they claim it would be wrong to do to them what they did to Trump, without even acknowledging what they did to Trump.

It would be one thing if they admitted that they had corrupted the power of government, but that is not the case. They act as if history began on Election Day, and that nothing existed before then.

With that mentality, the White House is reportedly discussing forgiving almost everyone involved in the Biden administration for anything they COULD have done that COULD be ILLEGAL before Trump resumes office on January 20.

That is an enormous amount of power to exercise: the preventive pardon. What could a person do if he thought absolution awaited him no matter what? Not many people would do it, but some would certainly embezzle money or valuable equipment, because why not?

Remember the discussion at the end of the Trump administration, in which leftists speculated that Trump might pardon himself for reasons they could not and did not even try to articulate? Of course he didn’t. But Joe might.

What do they think they are protecting themselves from? If they did, not being prosecuted would not absolve them of the obligation to answer questions before Congress. Removing the ability to plead the 5th – if you can’t be prosecuted, there’s no threat of self-incrimination – would require them to answer all questions or face contempt of Congress charges, which would be new and would not be covered by a general pardon.

By having to answer all the questions, these people would have to choose between answering the questions thoroughly and honestly, or covering up the truth and lying to keep the public from knowing the things they hoped to hide. Although they would not face jail time for the actual crimes they allegedly committed, the public humiliation of their corruption and/or incompetence would likely lead at least some of them to commit perjury, which would be new and therefore not subject to these provisions. insane excuses.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of this preemptive grace. It’s like conspiring to set a perjury trap against the person you’re hoping to catch – who could ask for more?

Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hate to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast in which the news is told the way it should be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.