Rick Grenell on DC

For John, BLUF:  The 1860 Election is an example of a peaceful transition of power gone awry  We shouldn't wish for another transition like that.  Democracy requires faith in the process and the power of the next election.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Grenell on Point – The DC Structure Will Never ‘Willingly’ Accept a People’s President…

From The Conservative Tree House, by Sundance, 10 June 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany and former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard “Ric” Grenell appears for a discussion with Lou Dobbs about the echo-chamber within Washington DC and the internecine relationship to the intelligence apparatus.

Ric Grenell makes a really good point when he connects how the DC political resistance would not attend the Trump inauguration, and how that same attitude just continued throughout.  President Trump’s outsider status made him a risk to the interests of the administrative state.  The DC system will not accept a ‘people’s president’, they demand approval authority permitting only one of their UniParty tribe.

If we don't see our opponents as legitimate, then there is no basis for peaceful transition.  If there is no basis for peaceful transition, is there any basis for Democracy?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

This was posted by Immigrant Fiction Writer Sarah Hoyt, who lives in C-Springs.

Regards  —  Cliff