Don’t Waste Ammo, This Too Shall Pass

A livid Fox’s Judge Jeanine was near tears as she ripped conviction of Trump on trumped up charges & opined the “country has gone over a cliff.”  Yet history also teaches us not to get angry, but even at the ballot box.

The WSJ’s editorial board was right on when it wrote that NY & elected Democrat “District Attorney Alvin Bragg inaugurate[d] a new & destabilizing era of American politics.” And for what? The DA said in a presser, he wanted to prove no one is above the law. What he may have proved, however, especially when the convictions get overturned in a final appeal, is that radical progressives have unconstitutionally commandeered the judicial system, weaponized it against their political opponents & placed themselves above the law in a way that makes that idiotic Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill look like a goofy antisemitic campus protest.

But, even a Supreme Court overturning Trump’s convictions won’t heal the wounded nation. As Independents look on, lib & con pundits from Bill Maher to Peggy Noonan have suggested it will take a revelation by both the warring right & left that the country can still avoid the "cliff" only through an overriding “reason & compromise,” like the “Greatest Generation” did after WWII. Or, maybe we’re forgetting history’s secret sauce to real healing: TIME. Us Boomers who lived through the 1960-70s Viet Nam War/Civil Rights Movements will recall a similar cultural war. As had been the case after the Revolutionary & Civil Wars, radicals fomenting grief would be slowly, if bumpily, defanged as reflected in one election after another. Again, a WWII song told soldiers “Pray to Jesus and pass the ammunition.” But, wasn’t it equally true those patriots fighting to “Save the World for Democracy” had faith that “This [existential danger], too, shall pass”? And didn’t they come home as a “Band of Brothers” who could agree to disagree at election time ... until the next threat?

Davd Soul