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2024 is shaping up to be one of the hotly contested presidential elections in history, but we have been here before, even way back at the beginning of our embattled republic. The 1800 campaign was hotly contested and stands out as notably acrimonious even now from the vantage point of two hundred more years of acrimonious campaigns.
In those days, the candidates themselves did not campaign, but others more than took up the slack. According to Rating America’s Presidents, the Federalist Hartford Courant sounded the alarm about the consequences of electing the deist Jefferson president: “Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will all be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes.” A Federalist leaflet invoked the bloody excesses of the French Revolution: “Can serious and reflecting men look about them and doubt that if Jefferson is elected, and the Jacobins get into authority, that those morals which protect our lives from the knife of the assassin—which guard the chastity of our wives and daughters from seduction and violence—defend our property from plunder and devastation, and shield our religion from contempt and profanation, will not be trampled upon and exploded?”
Jefferson’s supporters gave this right back, calling Adams’s presidency “one continued tempest of malignant passions.” They claimed that he planned to marry off one of his sons to a daughter of British King George III and start an American monarchy. That was one of the milder charges; Adams’s wife Abigail lamented that during the 1800 campaign, enough “abuse and scandal” was published “to ruin and corrupt the minds and morals of the best people in the world.”
One thing that neither Jefferson nor Adams did, however, was to use the machinery of the state to persecute the other and try to frame him for crimes.
Fast-forward to the run-up to the election of 1920. On Jan. 6, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson received news that former President Theodore Roosevelt had died unexpectedly at his home in Oyster Bay, New York, at the age of 60. Upon receiving the news, Wilson’s face broke into a wide, unashamed grin. He was planning to run for a third term in 1920, and the widely popular Roosevelt looked to be his chief rival. World War I had just ended, and Wilson’s ambitious plans for the postwar world, with their centerpiece a new international organization that would preserve world peace, the League of Nations, were on the line. Now, with Roosevelt dead, Wilson’s chances for 1920 were substantially improved. It was a cause for celebration.
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mortimer says
Biden appointed Merrick Garland as a new Heinrich Himmler to politicize the FBI as new Gestapo. This secret political police force is despotism. Americans should be alarmed by this unprecedented move to demonize the former president and all his many supporters.
The next step will be general raids and mass arrests of Republican leaders. Biden has authorized the CIA and FBI to act as a new Praetorian Guard deposing one emperor and appointing the next emperor.
This is a new kind of fascism that has not been seen before. It pretends to socialist and progressive, but it is actually more elitist than the Nazis ever were. The Dem elites are opportunists above politics who just want power for its own sake. Many of these elites are completely uninformed about science and technology, but see the world in terms of money, business opportunities and the accumulation of more power. I call this ‘Globalist Fascism’. These upper elites have manipulated the Progressives into believing its about building the socialist utopia, when in fact the agenda is power for its own sake.
The elites are using global warming, gun violence and racism as the only three parts of their motivating propaganda. Otherwise, they have no moral philosophy but the opportunistic pursuit of power.
wpm says
Wait till after the mid-term election and the new IRS army rules go into effect start going after anyone who donates, supports to Republicans ,or speaks up about how they hate democrats, audits up the wazoo freezing bank accounts taking houses and assets .If they go after a former elected president do they hold back on the average taxpaying citizen when they new more money to pay for programs to enslave the average citizen? They the ruling elite have declared war on you the first thing to die in war is the truth. With over 70,000 new agents looking up and following your everyday buying habits to see if you are making hidden income. It is a brave new IRS big brother world !
Keith O says
WPM, There is an easy way to stop your buying habits from being investigated.
Go to the ATM, withdraw everything you need and pay cash for absolutely everything.
I have been doing this for years.
Infidel says
I thought it interesting that while Mitch declined to weigh in, Andrew Cuomo and other Dems were queezy about this move. Not surprising, since they’re guilty of a lot more than what President Trump was possibly guilty of, and he was already cooperating w/ the National Archives to restore the requested documents
At this point, I think that once the next administration comes to power, they should do a real investigation of not just Hunter, but also Hillary and Obama: the former for everything related to her server, and the latter for any role he had in running this administration from his home. It’s obvious that Biden ain’t the one running things, so we should find out who is and punish them
Aside from that, I agree that it’s a bad idea to use the government to go after political opponents/enemies. But it’s not like if we don’t do it, they won’t either
Rarely says
The most difficult thing to understand is how this got out of hand. It should have been a non-starter and no-brainer.
Trump supposedly had classified documents in his Florida home which must be returned. So return them. Where’s the argument? What’s to negotiate? The only thing to “cooperate” is the date and time of the pickup.
I’m doubting the so-called “cooperation”.
I suppose there could be a disagreement over what is or is not classified but that “should” be easy to deal with if there really was “cooperation”.
I suspect that this one really is on Trump.
Infidel says
You are not following the news. He was returning them – he had been in talks w/ the National Archives since April. There was nothing that was being withheld. This raid was politically motivated, and what they did was break into an empty safe. It’s not a stretch of imagination to think that this FBI would plant incriminating evidence there
Look, even if Trump returns, you’re not gonna lose Trudeau, so you’ll still be fine w/ your Marxist regime there
Rarely says
It’s amazing how any country which has Medicare but no right to bear arms is Marxist, Communist or whatever. Get a grip.
Trump was returning them? So just return them. What? Did the raid occur while boxes were being packed for return? Why a delay?
Maybe negotiating a deal where he wouldn’t be charged for having these documents after they should have been returned. Who knows but I don’t think Trump is as lily white in this matter as some would like to believe. An “oversight” or disorganization would be understandable. More real facts will certainly emerge in due course because it’s all just speculation now.
Whatever those facts are many will continue to believe that this was a witch hunt against he-who-can-do-no-wrong (and maybe it was).
CogitoErgoSum says
It’s too bad Trump didn’t scan the documents and e-mail them to his computer in his basement. Then there would not have been any problem at all.
CogitoErgoSum says
Heck, the people at the National Archives should have just told Trump to send some scans of the documents to them.
CogitoErgoSum says
I also think that everyone, and especially the FBI, would have to agree that, just as in the case of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump did NOT intend in any way to break the law – so, as with Hillary, this should be something that would NOT disqualify him from running for President in 2024.
somehistory says
I read a news thingy yesterday that quoted a report from the NA that he had given over the papers…fifteen boxes…in February.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and maybe he declassified all the material in those boxes while he was President. If nobody has any record of that it might well be that it’s in a box somewhere else.
somehistory says
Yes, since he was the top guy, he could cancel any classified descriptions and, as you say, perhaps he did that.
As Daniel Greenfield writes, it’s all about making sure that a dem stays in the WH and they can’t win in the normal way… convince the people that they would be the best to run things…so they have to use the offices while they are holding them as weapons.
somehistory says
bobifrn says that he didn’t know anything about the raid before it happened. he doesn’t know anything about anything. ‘bo’ and clinton are still making the moves.
somehistory says
this new virus from bobiden’s friends…the chinese….is next to be weaponized against us all
Langya henipavirus . so far, 35 people are sick with it. How many lockdowns? How many feet apart, how many masks, jobs lost and new jabbings?
Enough of that, and the polls will have no voters…alive or dead.
Walter Sieruk says
What Joe Biden did by having the corrupted Red /Green alliance infiltrated FBI to invade the home of Donald Trump is an action of a tyrant.
Related this is that since Biden sitting in the Oval Office of the White House, he had said that any President who gets things done by executive orders and not popular consensus is a dictator. A dictator and tyrant Joe Biden, truly, is.
David M says
They have tried everything to get rid of him. Impeachment, then false accusations one after another. I agree with the commentators who are saying they will try to kill him when everything else they have tried has failed.
Walter Sieruk says
Not wanting to be overly negative and pessimistic but still keeping with the bounds of reality it’s possible that, maybe the terrible awful harm by that pseudo “president” , Joe Biden has done to the United States is still doing and will continue to do is so very horrendously horrible that the damage might be irreversible. I really hope I’m wrong.
President imposter Joe Biden is leading America to ruin. The terrible harm that Biden is doing to the USA might even be irreversible. As Abraham Lincoln had said, “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
Walter Sieruk says
That horrible Joe Biden willing allows those who a far more intelligent than him in their insidious and manipulative ways to control the now politically correct corrupted FBI that has been thoroughly influenced and infiltrated by those active in the Red/Green alliance to come down hard on Conservatives who are the political opponents of the far left. As seen in the good Conservative leader, Donald Trump.
It’s only a matter of time before the Biden regime also uses the FBI as it’s tool to come down hard in persecution of that average American patriot citizen,
For that treasonous treacherous villain, “president” pretender Biden has cause and will continue cause tremendous harm.
Furthermore, as declared before and worth declaring again. which is that “Joe Biden is an affront to the Presidency of the United States and a disgrace to the US Constitution as well as a catastrophe for America and a disaster for the American people.”
somehistory says
Jessie Waters reveals the toad who stirred up trouble to get the boxes to the NA. and there was an fbi mole in Mr. Trump’s home in Mar A Lago who said he knew what documents were there and where they were.
No chain of custody, so Mr. Trump won’t be able to prove he didn’t have them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z452_Y2P0RM
JHL says
It doesn’t matter what Trump does, they will hate him regardless. They do nothing for the country, just hate Trump.
Rarely says
Nevertheless Trump was a big help, very cooperative and a contributor.