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Trump’s Opponents Stand Up For Anarchy

Portland Chaos

Over there at Fox, Andrew McCarthy, now a senior fellow and contributing editor at National Review but himself a former federal prosecutor has nailed it exactly.  Says Andy:

“[H]e shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” The Constitution says that’s the president’s job, but we’re not hearing much about that from the chattering classes.

This is the plain text of Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution. And Andy is right – the “chattering classes” are ignoring it outright. But even more disturbing is the silence or outright ignorance of America’s political class.

Democrats around the country have, effectively, stood up for anarchy.
Astonishingly, Kentucky’s Republican Senator Rand Paul, normally a staunch defender of the Constitution, suddenly sees the idea of the President executing exactly the responsibility assigned him by the Constitution as now “rounding up people at will” in Portland.

Portland protester

Then there’s my former Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge. The Governor was chosen as the first head of the brand new conglomeration of federal agencies that would eventually become the Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. Ridge took to an interview with CNN’s Michael Smerconish to say, astonishingly, that DHS “was not established to be the president’s personal militia.” The former governor added:

“It would be a cold day in hell before I would consent to a unilateral, uninvited intervention into one of my cities, and I wish the president would take a more collaborative approach toward fighting this lawlessness than the unilateral approach he’s taken.”

Current Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. tweeted that:

“A democracy doesn’t have secret police & a paramilitary force. What we saw in Portland is performative fascism meant to inflame tensions & rally the President’s base ahead of an election.”

After warning that Philadelphia or Pittsburgh could be next, Casey added that “This should not be happening in America and we cannot allow it to continue.”

Say what? Absolute anarchy has broken out in Portland – and Casey says a President performing his quite plain Constitutional duty is engaging in performative fascism?  Wow. That is an amazing comment from someone who represents Philadelphia – the very city where the Constitution was written.

As White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany correctly noted:

“The well-organized mob in Portland has become increasingly aggressive, especially against law enforcement officers. Individuals have thrown bricks, chunks of concrete, glass bottles, feces, balloons filled with paint, pig’s feet, slingshots to hurl ball bearings and batteries at federal agents, and the courthouse.”

There is also a report out there that federal officers in Portland have been blinded permanently by rioters aiming lasers at their eyes.

In other words, there is absolute anarchy on the ground in Portland – and the Governor of Oregon and the Mayor of Portland have refused to do anything about it.

On Wednesday the President announced that he was surging federal officers from DHS, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Drug Enforcement Agency and other federal agencies into Chicago and other cities.

In a classic moment, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was tweeting out her opposition to the president – and while she was tweeting fifteen Chicago residents were shot as they gathered for a funeral.

The bottom line here?

Democrats – and, incredibly, some Republicans – are making it their business to deliberately ignore the Constitution of the United States and the quite plain duty it gives to the President to see to it that the “laws are faithfully executed.”

Plainly put, they are standing up for anarchy.

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