The Bullets We Dodged
By Mitch Berg
Berg’s Seventh Law has been getting a workout this week.
For starters – as I pointed out all through the run-up to the election – the Democrats and DFL jabbered relentlessly about voting to “save democracy”, while promising to gut free speech, freedom of conscience, the right to self-defense, privacy and separation of powers.
And perhaps it’s good news for 2026 that they seem to have learned nothing:
In the meantime, notwithstanding the 16 years of babbling about “impending waves of right-wing violence”, it is inevitably the left that leans into it:
I’ve been a Trump skeptic all along. But if I’d known that Trump’s win eight years ago were going to bring out Big Left’s true inner nature this hard, I might have opened my mind up a little earlier.
January 17th, 2025 at 4:12 pm
Somehow the behavior of Democrats reminds me of Walter Duranty’s reporting on the USSR. Duranty infamously claimed not only that the mass genocide in Ukraine wasn’t real, but that the nature of the Soviet peoples made a degree of tyranny the best solution for them, even excusing the gulags in Siberia and their lethality.
In the same way, the Democrats seems to indicate they feel about the same way, with the exception that they are not yet as lethal.
January 18th, 2025 at 10:02 am
I have to admit, the reaction from the Democrats and company has been I’ve been willing to support Mr. Trump more and more since his first inauguration.
Of course, they deserve every bit of pushback on it.