Democrats have broken America: Where's the outrage?

By J. Peder Zane
Real Clear Wire

The Democrats have an ace in the hole in their relentless war on the 
Constitution – conservative America’s reverence for the concept of the 
rule of the law.

Only their steadfast commitment to this traditional ideal explains why 
conservatives are allowing Democrats to flagrantly corrupt our judicial 
system to destroy their opponents and protect themselves. For all their 
huffing and puffing, conservatives have effectively taken a let the 
system play itself out attitude while Democrats nakedly politicize that 
system through their partisan indictments of former President Trump and 
their Potemkin Village probes of the Bidens. These are not statements of 
opinion. These are facts.

Part of me is glad that so many legal analysts have spilled so much ink 
exposing these charades. But we degrade our country and ourselves when 
we treat this unspeakable behavior with anything other than horrified 
contempt. Every good-faith critique normalizes and legitimizes this 
profoundly un-American conspiracy.

Viewing the obvious forest rather than the tangled trees, the cases 
against Trump are a continuation of the deceitful effort by Democrats 
and their deep state allies, especially in the DOJ, to annihilate their 
chief political opponent. That effort began even before his election 
when Hillary Clinton’s campaign manufactured false claims that Trump had 
conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. 

When that sham was exposed, they almost immediately made Trump only the 
third president in the country to be impeached for asking Ukraine’s 
leader to look into the Biden family’s influence-peddling schemes. They 
set aside almost every rule and order of business by rushing to impeach 
him once again after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. While that was 
going on, Democrats insistently rained down other bogus concerns – that 
he was violating the Emoluments Clause because wealthy foreigners 
continued to stay at his hotels, that his alleged mental instability 
made him unfit – to remove him from office.


The charges Trump now faces are part of the ongoing campaign by 
Democrats to subvert the rule of law to delegitimize what they see as 
the greatest threat to their power.

In the meantime, Democrats are blatantly using the criminal justice 
system to protect President Biden. It is now beyond dispute that Biden 
lied to the American people when he said he never discussed foreign 
business with his son Hunter and when he claimed during his final 2020 
debate with Trump that Hunter’s laptop, which contained evidence of 
those corrupt dealings, was a “Russian plant.” Has a candidate ever 
peddled more consequential falsehoods?

In fact, the president was not only aware of his son’s influence-
peddling schemes, whose sole selling point was the connection to his 
vast power. He was an active participant through phone calls and 
meetings with clients. Irony does not capture the deviousness of the 
Democrats’ decision to impeach Trump for asking Ukraine to look into 
this corruption.

The cover-up of the Bidens’ conduct is equally disturbing. The U.S. 
attorney in Delaware assigned to the case, David C. Weiss, is a former 
colleague of Biden’s late son Beau. Although the tax avoidance charges 
involved are straightforward, Weiss spent more than five years allegedly 
looking into them – allowing the statute of limitations to run out on 
millions of unreported earnings Hunter generated in 2014 and 2015. Note 
that even as the president calls on Americans to pay their fair share, 
neither he nor his allies have demanded that Hunter pay his.

Indeed, we only know about Weiss’ corruption because of two courageous 
IRS whistleblowers. In response, Weiss quickly struck a deal with Hunter 
to settle the matter, crafting a sweetheart deal that would have let him 
off the hook with a slap on the wrist. All might have been forgiven but 
for the presiding judge, who rejected the deal last month as “not 
standard” and potentially unconstitutional.


The arrogance is jaw-dropping; the lawlessness is in plain sight. 
Democrats are not even trying to hide their malfeasance – which is part 
of their method. If they can make us accept their authority to twist the 
system so that it is no longer a means of justice but a tool of their 
political power, then their possibilities are unlimited.


The corporate media would be in high dudgeon about this assault on the 
Constitution and the streets would be filled with left-wing protestors 
who would make the BLM riots, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and the 
harassment of Supreme Court justices in response to the overturning of 
Roe v. Wade seem mild.

Here’s the conundrum. While no one wants conservatives to start engaging 
in direct action, their passivity is allowing Democrats to weaponize the 
government. On the one hand, I admire their faith in our system. Even 
Trump, for all his barking, has largely submitted to his gross 
mistreatment.

But our system is shattered. The rule of law is now more concept than 
fact. Where’s the outrage?

J. Peder Zane is a RealClearInvestigations editor and columnist. He 
previously worked as a book review editor and book columnist for the 
News & Observer (Raleigh), where his writing won several national 
honors. Zane has also worked at the New York Times and taught writing at 
Duke University and Saint Augustine’s University.

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