By Mike Huckabee
June 24, 2020
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MORNING EDITION
June 24, 2020
By Mike Huckabee
PEOPLE ARE NEXT
Some people like to look back to the old “Andy Griffith Show” for valuable life lessons. If I had to cite the best advice from that for big city mayors dealing with streets full of radical leftist vandals burning, looting and destroying monuments and historic statues, I’d point to the sage wisdom of Barney Fife:
“Nip it! Nip it in the bud!”
Unfortunately, with Democratic officials having ordered the police to stand back for weeks and let the mob “vent” and “express its feelings,” it’s too late for that. Instead of getting it out of their systems, they’ve just been emboldened to believe that their strategy for destroying America and its history is working, and they’re only ramping it up.
It’s obvious that the call to remove Confederate monuments was only a pretext, and that President Trump was right: they’ve quickly moved on to attacking statues of Washington and Jefferson, and to show their genuine historical illiteracy, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, World War II soldiers and several prominent abolitionists. In Texas, a statue of guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn was defaced, and there was even a threat against the Alamo (if they dare to damage that Texas shrine, Davy Crockett and company won’t be the only people who made their last stand at the Alamo.) There’s even talk about whether we need extra security to protect up Mount Rushmore. So this is not really about feeling “triggered” by Confederate monuments, it’s an all-out assault on all American history and culture, and everything and everyone who did something to contribute to it.
Christopher Bedford in The Federalist wrote one of the most talked-about editorials of the day, recounting the history of revolutionary mob violence and what happens when nobody stands up to them.
Bedford writes, “A society that believes in itself builds monuments, a sick society does not, and a dying society watches as they are torn down.” He further warns that “everywhere statues are torn down by the mob, history teaches that people are next.”
And we’re already seeing that come to pass, with physical assaults and even killings of police, protesters and others unfortunate enough to attract the mob’s attention. Just last night, Democratic Wisconsin state Senator Tim Carpenter was beaten by “peaceful protesters” at the State Capitol. They claim he “provoked” them. He says he was just taking a photo. They were toppling two statues, one of them a statue of a Union officer who fought to free the slaves. So either they didn’t want their faces seen by police, or they were too ashamed of how pig-ignorant they are about history to show their faces.
President Trump has now ordered that if local Democratic officials refuse to do their jobs and protect public monuments, he will enforce the federal law protecting them. But what is these officials’ reaction to the expanding anarchy in their own jurisdictions? I’m not certain which would be the most accurate adjective: shameful, oblivious or insane? Take a look at this outrageous statement by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and you be the judge.
When asked about Trump saying Democratic officials should do more to protect monuments, Cuomo replied, “People are making a statement about equality, about community, to be against racism, against slavery, I think those are good statements…It’s a healthy expression of people saying let’s get some priorities here and let’s remember the sin and mistake that this nation made and let’s not celebrate it.”
Far be it from me to tell Gov. Cuomo how to do his job (although I did do that job for 10 years, and somehow managed to avoid killing thousands of nursing home residents, driving businesses to other states, or allowing communist radicals to run riot in the streets, destroying public monuments), but that is not “healthy expression.” It’s felony vandalism. You know, the kind of criminal act and threat to public safety that Governors are supposed to prevent.
It’s too bad Barney Fife isn’t with us anymore. He’d make a much better Governor than Andrew Cuomo.
Some good further reading on this subject: Conrad Black at National Review on why the assault on statues is really a fight against civilization.
LOS ANGELES SURGE
Los Angeles reported a surge of nearly 2600 new coronavirus cases Monday. Officials say it’s “highly likely” this is connected to all the protest crowds spreading it.
That’s strange. I was assured by over 1,000 “health professionals” that the coronavirus was a Democrat and wouldn’t spread at protests of police and racism, only at protests of government lockdowns and pro-Trump rallies.
EYE-WITNESS
Another prominent political figure made a statement to the media that seems to imply John Bolton isn’t telling the truth in his book about President Trump being weak and sucking up to China. And that prominent political figure is…John Bolton, one year ago:
WORST DEMOCRATIC QUOTE OF THE DAY
It’s getting so that Democrats these days make so many outrageous, offensive and idiotic statements that it’s hard to decide who gets the honor of Worst Democratic Quote of the Day. After New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared destroying public monuments and statues to be a “healthy expression” of people’s political feelings, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “Hold muh chardonnay!” and came out with this stunner, in criticizing the GOP Senate police reform bill:
"For something to happen, they're going to have to face the realities of police brutalities, the realities of the need for justice in policing, and the recognition that there's many good people in law enforcement, but not all. And that we have to address those concerns. So, when they admit that, and have some suggestions that are worthy of consideration -- but so far they were trying to get away with murder, actually -- the murder of George Floyd.”
Put aside for the moment that she’s suggesting she cares more about black lives than the creator of the GOP Senate bill, Sen. Tim Scott, who actually is black, as opposed to Pelosi, who is whiter than Caspar the ghost, although not nearly as friendly. Let’s examine her outrageous lie that REPUBLICANS are trying to “get away with” the murder of George Floyd.
I’ve said this before, but as a reminder: George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, who is part of a department run by a Democrat police chief in a city with zero Republicans on the city council, where there hasn’t been a Republican mayor in 47 years. All county officials are Democrats, including the prosecutors who declined to punish that officer over previous brutality complaints (like now-Senator Amy Klobuchar.) Higher up, the Governor is a Democrat, as are both Senators and five of the state’s eight Representatives (who include Ilhan Omar!) The State Attorney General is a Democrat who’s so far left that he promoted the Antifa handbook on Twitter. And the state is so sold blue that it’s the only state that voted for Mondale over Reagan in 1984. In short, the death of George Floyd is the end result of decades of rock-solid, uninterrupted Democratic Party rule.
And Minneapolis is hardly an outlier. Look at every city in America where there is widespread crime and violence, and complaints of filthy, substandard and dangerous conditions in black neighborhoods, and look who’s been running them for years. Here’s a hint:
Say, while we’re at it, let’s look at all the celebrities currently under fire for racism for wearing blackface. See any Republicans on this list?
No, Republicans are not to blame for the murder of George Floyd. We’re just trying to clean up the Democratic corruption that led to that, the same way Republican Abe Lincoln had to fight the Democratic Southern states to end slavery. Or the way the NRA had to defend the right of blacks to own guns to protect themselves from the Democratic KKK. Or the way Republican President Dwight Eisenhower had to send federal troops to then-Democratic Arkansas to enforce public school desegregation…
You know, it’s suddenly starting to dawn on me why Democrats are so eager to rewrite or erase all of American history.
TUESDAY PRIMARY UPDATE
Here’s a round-up of some of Tuesday’s primary results. Unfortunately, AOC won her party’s nomination, so we’ll likely have at least another two years of her in Congress. Some politicians are like bed bugs: once you have them, you can never get rid of them. Also like bed bugs, they’re crazy. At this writing, it appears likely that they will also replace incumbent Eliot Engel with a far-left “progressive” endorsed by AOC.
I can’t explain why New York voters, having been saved from the blight and decay of leftism by Rudy Giuliani, would actually vote to bring back the crime, garbage, homelessness and urine smells of the Dinkins years. But they elected, then reelected Bill DeBlasio to do it, and now they’ve once again nominated the woman who celebrated driving away 25,000 Amazon jobs from her own home district and voted against the Payroll Protection Act. I have to assume there was a lot of overlap between those DeBlasio and AOC votes.
Well, as H.L. Mencken once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and they deserve to get it, good and hard.” New Yorkers are certainly getting what they voted for these days, and they’re getting it good and hard. I just wish they’d stop inflicting it on the rest of us.
BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY (KJV)
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