Gaining power hasn’t made the left any less insane

Gaining power hasn’t made the left any less insane

"Many years ago, the columnist Megan McArdle postulated a law of politics: “The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.”

This was a pretty good summary of the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump years. 

But no more. 

The Democrats have taken control of the presidency and both houses of Congress. 

But based on the evidence of the past week, that hasn’t made them any less crazy. 

• First, there was the unleashing of the Big Tech titans against the Twitter alternative Parler...Parler’s crime? Some people who organized the Capitol Hill riot used its services. 
• ...Facebook also took down all sorts of pages, including one for the “WalkAway” campaign, designed to encourage minority voters to switch to the Republican Party, with more than 500,000 followers. 
• And Twitter, of course, banned President Trump, a move that drew criticism even from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has never been a Trump fan. And former Rep. Ron Paul’s page was locked after he published a column critical of Facebook. (Facebook later called that move a “mistake.”)

Even five years ago, this sort of thing would have seemed insane. 

But here we are.

...But now they have impeached Trump — a week before he was scheduled to leave office anyway. 

And this time, the claim was even thinner: that a speech in which Trump called for peaceful protests was somehow “incitement” of events on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, some of which apparently took place before the speech was delivered.

• When Democrats spent a year promoting and excusing violent riots against the police, we were told that it was “mostly peaceful” protest, even when police stations and state capitols were seized, and when rioters tried to burn down federal courthouses. 
• When Trump called for peaceful protest, we’re told he was advocating violence. 

...One promise of the Biden campaign was that after the craziness of the Trump years, electing the ex-veep would return the country to normal. 

Instead, Democrats are doubling down on crazy. 

It’s enough to make you wish for “smug and arrogant” — but sane...Read all.